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India’s 1st international Multi modal logistics park

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Jogighopa, Assam

Park being developed under Bharatmala Pariyojana of Govt

Made by National Highways & Infra Development Corp Ltd (NHIDCL)

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Ind’s 1st undersea Twin tunnel being constructed under

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Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP)

An initiative by BMC to link Marine Drive to Bandra Worli Sea Link

Opened by Nov 2023

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First Indian American to be appointed as the World Bank president

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Ajaypal Singh Banga (Ajay Banga)

Succeeded incumbent president David Malpass

Banga has served previously as the Vice Chairman of General Atlantic and CEO of MasterCard

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First Indian to participate in the FIM World Junior GP world championship

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Geoffrey Emanuel

To be held at Portugal

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World’s first respiratory virus (RSV) vaccine - GSK’s shot to be developed by

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Arexvy

Approved by United States food and drug administration (FDA)

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India’s first Indian Air force (IAF) Heritage center inaugurated at

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Chandigarh by Union defence minister

The heritage center has the first IAF made patent aircraft Air force ‘Kanpur 1 vintage prototype aircraft’

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India’s first state robotic framework - Telangana developed by

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Emerging technologies wing of Information technology, electronics and communication, department of Telangana

in collaboration with the All India Robotics Association

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First Indian state to implement the “Right to walk”

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Punjab

Right to walk makes it mandatory to all road owning agencies, including NHAI to provide food paths and cycle tracks

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First C295 aircraft for Indian Air force successfully completed it’s inaugural flight. It took off from

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Seville, Spain

The initial 16 planes will be constructed in Spain
While 40 planes will be assembled at Tata Advanced System Limited (TASL) in Vadodara, Gujarat

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First United Kingdom baby created with DNA from three people born after the groundbreaking IVF procedure using the technique

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Mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT) which prevents children from inheriting incurable diseases

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First airport in India to have a free reading lounge

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Lal Bahadur Shastri International airport Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Established with the assistance of National Book trust under Ministry of Education

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First state to launch institutional ranking framework

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Government of Kerala

To be annually implemented by State Higher Education Council.

It has been modeled on the lines of
National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) to assess the quality of higher education Institutes in Kerala

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First laser inferometer gravitational wave observatory India LIGO India foundation stone lead

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Hingoli, Maharashtra

LIGO has 4 km length

Estimated cost Rs 2,600 crore

Expected to be completed by 2030

Build by Dpartment of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology with US National Science Foundation

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First Indian state to make digital health cards for children under School Jealth Program

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Uttar Pradesh

Launched to buy Urban Development Department of Uttar Pradesh Government and Lucknow Smart City

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First movie in Tagin language of Arunachal Pradesh —

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Love in 90s

Directed by Tapen Natem

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First indigenously designed and developed Vertical Take off and Landing (VTOL) loitering munitions for Indian Air force Tata ALS 50 designed and developed by

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Tata Advanced System Limited (TASL)

Tata ALS 50 also known as suicide drone can take down targets at range of over 50 km

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India’s first 8 lane elevated access control grade separated Dwarka urban expressway (Haryana to West Delhi) being developed under

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Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Project cost Rs 9000 crore
It will be completed in April 2024

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First woman and non-secretary bureaucrat to be appointed as Competition Commission of India (CCI) chairperson

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Ravneet Kaur

Appointed by: Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)

She will replace CCI members Sangeeta Verma who has been serving as the interim (acting) chairperson of CCI

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First woman Director General of the United Nations - International Organization for Migration - IOM

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Amy E Pope

She will be the 11th DG of IOM

She is from United States

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World’s first commercial space station HAVEN- 1 to be launched by

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SpaceX (Space exploration Technologies) and Vast (space startup)

It will be launched using the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low Earth orbit by August 2025

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India’s first small cap fund in the ULIP (unit link insurance plan)

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Bajaj Allianz Life small cap fund launched by Bajaj Allianz Life insurance company

Benchmark index is Nifty small cap 100 index

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India’s first recycled polyvinial chloride rPVC rupay card launched by

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Tide (United Kingdom based fintech) in collaboration with NPCA

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First woman astronaut from Saudi Arabia to go to space launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

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Rayyanah Barnawi

Launched through Axiom mission 2 (Ax-2)

She was accompanied by Ali al - Qarni, a fighter pilot from Saudi Arabia

Both were 1st Saudi astronauts to go into space

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India’s first state to provide free air travel to pilgrims under Mukhyamantri Teerth darshan Yojana

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Madhya Pradesh government

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India’s first Neo Metro to be launched by Uttarakhand Metro Rail Corporation at

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Dehradun, Uttarakhand

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India’s first Pod taxi to be launched by Uttarakhand Metro Rail corporation at

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Haridwar, Uttarakhand

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First digital onboarding system that enables merchants to use electronic data capture or point of sale (POS)

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Launched by Axis Bank

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First double-above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest

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Hari Budha Magar (Nepal)

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First payment app to link 2 lac Rupay credit cards to UPI

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Phonepe

Phonepe has also processed Total Payment Value (TPV) of Rs 150 crore through Rupay credit on UPI

Phonepe has achieved the highest merchant penetration in the ecosystem

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First Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Wood Carving (also known as Ladakh Shingskos)

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Given to Ladakh

To promote handicraft culture of the artisans as well as local economy of the artisans of Ladakh

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First woman hockey player to have a stadium named after her

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Rani Rampal

Stadium at Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh

The MCF Rae Bareli has renamed. The hockey stadium has Rani’s girls hockey turf

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First Indian state to achieve 100% railway network electrification

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Haryana

Existing broad gauge network of Haryana is 1701 route kilometer which is now 100% electrified

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World’s first liquid hydrogen powered ferry which is a hybrid that uses both batteries and liquid hydrogen fuel cells

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MF hydra

launched by Norled ( a Norwegian company)

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First female on-field umpire in a full member men’s T20 international cricket

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Kim Cotton - she hails from New Zealand

Match Sri Lanka versus New Zealand

First female on field umpire in men’s ODI format Claire Polosack

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India’s first post office constructed using 3D printing technology at Bangalore, Karnataka

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Halasuru post office constructed by Larson and tubro

To design and build 1000 ft² post office using 3D concrete printing technology within 45 days

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First nation to approve a highly effective malaria vaccine developed at Oxford University

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Ghana

Vaccine R21/ Matrix- m

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