Here are some news related to events that happened for the first time in India in 2021. These are important from the exam point of view. You can click on any news to read the details about it.
- India’s first smog tower inaugurated in Connaught Place, Delhi
- Delhi-Chandigarh Highway becomes India’s first e-vehicle friendly highway
- IIT Madras develops ‘NeoBolt’- India’s first indigenous motorised wheelchair vehicle
- Amitabh Bachchan Becomes India’s First Celebrity Voice For Amazon’s Alexa
- Kaziranga becomes India’s first national park with satellite phones
- India’s first Drone Forensic Lab comes up in Kerala
- Dr. Jitendra Singh released “IndiGau’, India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of indigenous cattle breeds
- Indore declared India’s first ‘Water Plus’ certified city
- India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant successfully completes five-day maiden sea voyage
- Karnataka becomes first Indian state to issue order regrading implementation of NEP 2020
- Uttarakhand unveils India’s first earthquake early warning mobile app-named ‘Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert’
- India’s first driverless pod taxis will connect Jewar international airport with Greater Noida
- India’s first Cryptogamic Garden Inaugurated in Dehradun
- Nitin Gadkari becomes “Brand Ambassador” of Khadi Prakritk Paint, India’s first paint made from Cow Dung
- Indian Railways Install India’s First Movable Freshwater Tunnel Aquarium at Bengaluru Station
- Grene Robotics develops India’s first indigenous drone defence dome ‘Indrajaal’
- India’s first maritime arbitration centre to be set up in Gandhinagar
- IIT Ropar develops India’s first power-free CPAP device ‘Jivan Vayu’
- India’s First Agriculture Export Facilitation Centre Launched in Pune
- India’s First Floating LNG Storage & Regasification Unit Reaches Maharashtra
- Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation Issues India’s First Green Bonds
- S A Bobde launches Supreme Court of India’s first AI-driven Research Portal ‘SUPACE’
- India’s first heart failure biobank unveiled in Thiruvananthapuram
- Andhra Pradesh to Launch India’s first Govt-run Ambulance Network For Animals
- India’s first ‘Grain ATM’ launched in Gurugram
- Bhubaneswar becomes first city in India to achieve 100% vaccination against covid-19
- Uttarakhand’s Ranikhet gets India’s first Forest Healing Centre
- India’s First Thunderstorm Research Testbed to be established at Balasore in Odisha
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates India’s first 3D printed house at IIT-M
- PhonePe becomes first player to cross billion-transaction mark on UPI
- India Unveils first-ever app to learn Sanskrit called “Little Guru”
- Puri city of Odisha becomes first in India to provide 24×7 ‘safe to drink’ tap water facility
- Karnataka becomes first State to provide 1% reservation for Transgender persons in Government Employment
- State-run ONGC to establish India’s first geothermal field development project in Ladakh
- India’s First Amputee Clinic Launched In Chandigarh
- India’s First ‘Gender Park’ to be inaugurated in Kozhikode, Kerala
- India’s first Labour Movement Museum to be set up in Kerala
- Andhra Pradesh to Launch India’s first Govt-run Ambulance Network For Animals
- Bihar becomes first state to have Ethanol Promotion Policy
- Shivalik Bank becomes India’s first urban co-operative bank to transition to SFB
- Chandigarh launches ‘Carbon Watch’, India’s first app to assess one’s carbon footprint
- Mithali Raj becomes first Indian woman cricketer to score 10,000 international runs
- India’s First Digital University set up in Kerala
- India’s First Amputee Clinic Launched In Chandigarh
- India gets its first Centre for Wetland Conservation and Management in Chennai
- Naveen Patnaik inaugurates India’s first ‘Fire Park’ in Bhubaneswar
- India’s first Pollinator Park inaugurated in Haldwani, Uttarakhand