Current Affairs 2026
FIRST IN INDIA & WORLD: 2025–26
Important One-Liner Facts for Competitive Examinations
1. India's first AI-powered bird sanctuary – Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary, Maharashtra.
2. India's first hydrogen train (NaMo Green Rail) – Jind–Sonipat rail section, Haryana; launched on 17 July 2026.
3. India's first airport to receive 'Eat Right Campus' certification – Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
4. World's first AI art museum – Dataland, USA.
5. First state to introduce a climate action plan at the village level – Karnataka.
6. India's sixth fully literate state under the ULLAS programme – Uttarakhand.
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7. India's first state to establish an AI Ministry – Kerala.
8. Launch of India's first hydrogen bus service – Delhi.
9. India's first state to adopt fully digital banking – Kerala.
10. First Caribbean country to adopt Indian UPI – Trinidad and Tobago.
11. India's first space-tech company – Skyroot Aerospace.
12. India's first pearl farming cluster – Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
13. India's first PM MITRA Park – Warangal, Telangana.
14. Country's first paperless judiciary – Sikkim.
15. India's first green methanol plant – Gujarat.
16. India's first transgender cricket umpire – Rithika Sri.
17. First CEO of Delhi Metro International – Sanjay Jamuar.
18. India's first LGBTQ/Queer Rajya Sabha MP – Menaka Guruswamy.
19. World's first quadruple-amputee archer champion – Payal Nag.
20. First woman to reach lunar orbit – Christina Koch.
21. Launch of India's first quantum computer – Amravati, Andhra Pradesh.
22. Initiation of the world's first digital census – India.
23. First Indian woman to reach Everest Base Camp by bicycle – Divya Singh, Gorakhpur.
24. India's second semiconductor plant – Sanand, Gujarat.
25. First state to receive the 'Praman' certificate for forest products – Andhra Pradesh.
26. First Indian woman to graduate from the Indian Military Academy – Sai Jadhav.
27. First country to impose a complete ban on social media for children under 16 – Australia.
28. Youngest self-made female billionaire – Luana Lopes Lara.
29. Second state to implement the Uniform Civil Code – Gujarat.
30. India's second fully literate Union Territory – Chandigarh.
31. First state in India to adopt a comprehensive urban policy – Kerala.
32. Launch of India's first musical road – Mumbai, Maharashtra.
33. First district to achieve 100% insurance coverage – Alwar, Rajasthan.
34. First female Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra – Sunetra Pawar.
35. First state to declare tidal flooding a state-specific disaster – Kerala.
36. Launch of India's first face transplant programme – AIIMS, New Delhi.
37. Second state to publish a bird atlas – Goa.
38. First district in India to collect property tax through the SAMARTH Panchayat portal – Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh.
39. Launch of India's first menopause clinic – Maharashtra.
40. First state in India to constitute the 8th State Pay Commission – Assam.
41. First fully paperless district court launched – Wayanad, Kerala.
42. India's first 'Gahan Prajanan Gyan Kendra' launched – Mumbai.
43. First state to digitize the voter list under SIR – Rajasthan.
44. First state to implement the revised BharatNet scheme – Punjab.
45. First country to impose a generational tobacco ban – Maldives.
46. First state to provide paid menstrual leave – Karnataka.
47. Name of India's first electric-powered rocket – Vayaputra.
48. World's first officially cashless country – Sweden.
49. India's first state to be free from extreme poverty – Kerala.
50. India's first President to fly in a Rafale aircraft – Droupadi Murmu.
51. India's first Semiconductor Innovation Museum – Hyderabad, Telangana.
52. India's first Mental Health Ambassador – Deepika Padukone.
53. First state to amend the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 – Kerala.
54. India's first cheetah safari launched – Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh.
55. India's first slum-free city – Chandigarh.
56. India's first child-marriage-free district – Balod, Chhattisgarh.
57. India's first Integrated Oncology Research Centre – Goa.
58. First state in India to issue identity cards for Self-Help Groups (SHGs) – Tamil Nadu.
59. World's first AI-generated genome of a virus was created by – Stanford University and the Arc Institute, USA.
60. Asia's first women's cancer treatment centre – Apollo Athene, New Delhi.
Important exam note: The hydrogen-train entry is supported by official Railway/PIB information: India's first hydrogen train was flagged off on 17 July 2026 on the 89-km Jind–Sonipat section.
Also, the Menaka Guruswamy entry needs precise wording: she became India's first openly queer Member of Parliament, serving in the Rajya Sabha, rather than simply "first LGBTQ Rajya Sabha MP."