First in India – General Knowledge

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First in India – General Knowledge

First  in India

Newspaper	Bengal Gazette (James Hickey )
Vernacular Daily	Samachar Darpan
Hindi Newspaper	Udant Martand
Telegraph Line	Diamond Harbour to Kolkata
International Telephone Service	Mumbai to London (1851)
Silent Movie	Raja Harish Chandra (Dadasheb Phalke 1913)
Talkie Movie	Alam Ara (Ardeshir Irani-1931)
Aircraft Carriage Warship	INS Vikrant
Satellite	Aryabhatta (19th April, 1975)
Satellite dedicated exclusively for Education Purposes	EDUSAT
Dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory	Astrosat
Successful indigenous launch vehicle	SLV-3
Nuclear Reactor	Apsara (1956)
Lunar Mission	Chandrayaan-I ( October 2008)
Mars Mission	Mars Orbiter Mission (5th November 2013)
Hydroelectric Project	Sidrapong (1897)
Asian Games	Delhi (1951)
Census	1872
Regular Decadal Census	1881 Onwards
Biosphere Reserve	Nilgiri
Chairman of UPSC	Ross Barker
National Park	Hailey National Park (Jim Corbett),1936
E-Court	Ahmedabad
Court exclusively dedicated to women	Malda (WB)
Technology Park	Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram
Cloned Animal	Samrupa

First in India (Male)

First Governor-General of India	William Bentinck (1828)
First and last Indian Governor General of  Free     India	C Rajagopalachari
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India	General KM Kariappa
First Field Marshal of India	General SHFJ Manekshaw (1971)
First Indian to go in Space	Rakesh Sharma
First Indian to climb the Mount Everest without Oxygen	Sherpa Ang Dorje
First Indian to become the Managing Director of World Bank	Gautam Kaji
First Chairman of Nation Human Rights  Commission	Rangnath Mishra
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	CV Raman (1930)
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Literature	Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Economics	Dr. Amartya Sen (1998)
First  Indian to get  Nobel Prize in Medicines (Physiology)	Dr. Har Govind Khorana (1954)
First  Indian to get Bharat Ratna	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan C Rajgopalachari and  Dr. CV Raman (1954)
First Person to be Honoured with the Jnanpith Award	G Sankara Kurup ( Malayalam)
First Person to get  Bharat  Ratna (posthumously)	Lal Bahadur Shastri
First  cricketer to get Padma Bhushan	CK Naidu
First Indian to get through ICS	Satyendra Nath Tagore (1869)
First Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen (1958)
First Judge of International Court of Justic	Dr. Nagendra Singh

First in India (Female)

First Indian Female Chairperson of Indian National Congress	Sarojini Naidu (1925)
First Woman to Climb the Everst	Bachendri  Pal (1984)
First Woman Cabinet Minister	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (1947)
First Woman  Chairman of the UN General Assembly	Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
First Woman President of India	Pratibha Devi Singh Patil
First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar (2009)
First Woman Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha	Margaret Alva (1962)
First Woman Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi
First Woman to reach Antarctica	Meher Moos (1976)
First Woman IAS Officer	Anna Rajam George (1950)
First Female Chief Justice	Leela Seth (1991)
First Woman to win the Jnanpith Award	Asha Poorna Devi (1976)
First Woman to get Bharat  Ratna	Indira Gandhi
First Woman  Nobel Prize Winner	Mother Teresa (1979)
First Woman to complete Century in World Cup Cricket	Thirush Kamini
First Actress to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha	Nargis Dutt
First Woman Chairman of UPSC	Rose Millian Bethew (Kharbuli)
First Woman nominated to Rajya Sabha	Rukmini Devi Arundale