INDIA – FIRST, LARGEST, LONGEST — ONE-LINERS

INDIA – FIRST, LARGEST, LONGEST — ONE-LINERS 

(June 2025 → Nov 2025 timeline)

🟦 Defence & Strategic

  • First-ever Indian defence manufacturing plant abroad → Tata Advanced Systems Maroc, Morocco.

  • India’s first indigenous ASW-SWC class warship → INS Arnala, commissioned June.

  • India’s first indigenous diving support vessel → Nistar, commissioned July.

  • Indian Navy’s first training squadron long-range deployment → INS Tir, INS Shardul & ICGS Sarathi dock in Seychelles.

  • PM to flag off first indigenous locomotive export to Guinea, from Bihar.

  • India conducts trial of Asia’s longest freight train → Rudrastra.

🟦 Space & Microchips

  • India’s first fully indigenous microprocessor → Vikram-3201 (ISRO), presented at Semicon India 2025.

  • Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla – first Indian to set foot on ISS via Axiom-4 mission.

  • Indian tricolour hoisted on Seattle Space Needle for the first time ever.

🟦 Energy & Technology

  • India’s first bamboo-based ethanol plant + world’s first green bamboo bioethanol plant → Golaghat, Assam.

  • India’s largest hydropower project operational → Subansiri Lower HEP, 2000 MW.

  • India’s first high-voltage EV safety training programme → ADYPU Pune.

  • India’s first tempered glass manufacturing plant → Optiemus-Corning JV.

  • India’s first hydrogen-powered coach tested; hydrogen train expected (delayed to June).

  • India’s first hydrogen fuel cell train on Kalka-Shimla route (delayed).

🟦 AI & Digital Tech

  • India’s first national AI initiative covering text–speech–vision → BharatGen AI, to support 22 languages by 2026.

  • Sikkim’s Yakten declared India’s first digital nomad village.

  • Karnataka to launch India’s first survey of sexual minorities & Devadasis (app based).

  • Jio-BlackRock AMC to launch India’s first Systematic-Active-Equity powered active equity fund.

🟦 Infrastructure, Transport & Connectivity

  • India’s first e-Water Taxi route → Gateway of India ↔ JNPA (Mumbai).

  • India’s first bullet train section Surat–Vapi to run by 2027.

  • India’s longest railway viaduct commissioned in Katni (MP).

  • India’s second longest cable-stayed bridge → Sigandur Bridge, Karnataka.

  • India’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper Coach maintenance hub → Jodhpur by 2026.

  • India’s first river terminal → Guwahati.

🟦 Finance, Industry & Business

  • Odisha to unveil India’s first global FinTech hub → Bhubaneswar.

  • India’s first agricultural hackathon → Pune.

  • India’s first anti-drug curriculum for schools → Punjab.

  • Tesla to launch India’s first Supercharger Hub in Mumbai.

🟦 Heritage, Environment & Conservation

  • India’s first globally recognised Dugong Conservation Reserve established.

  • India’s first mangrove park nearing completion → Gorai, Mumbai.

  • India’s first mining tourism initiative → Jharkhand.

🟦 Historical & Symbolic Firsts

  • First official flag hoisting on 15 Aug 1947 → Fort St. George, Chennai (5:30 AM).

  • Red Fort hoisting by PM tradition began 16 August 1947.

  • Council House Delhi (10:30 AM) hosted official transfer of power.

  • Princess Park Delhi → first public flag celebration.

🟦 Diplomacy & Visits

  • President of Paraguay – first state visit to India (Jun 2–4).

  • Fiji PM Sitiveni Rabuka’s first official visit to India (Aug 24–26).