FIRST IN INDIA
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1. First President of India- Dr. RAJENDRA PRASAD
2. First Prime Minister of India- JAWARLAL NEHRU
3. First Governor-General of Bengal-- WARREN HASTING
4. First Governor General of India- LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK
5. First Viceroy of India- LORD CANNING
6. First battle in which gunpowder, artillery and canons used
used- FIRST BATTLE OF PANIPAT,1526
7. First European to trade with India
India- PORTUGUESE
8. First Vice-President of India- SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
9. First female president of India- PRATIBHA PATEL
10. First female prime minister of India
India- INDIRA GANDHI
11. First Chief Election Commissioner of India
India- SUKUMAR SEN
12. First Chief Justice of India- HIRALAL JEKISUNDAS KANIA (HJ KANIA)
13. First woman judge of the supreme
eme court of India
India- FATHIMA BEEVI
14. First woman to become the Chief Justice of a State
State- LEILA SETH
15. First woman president of the Indian National Congress (INC)
(INC)- ANNIE BESANT
16. First Indian woman president of Indian National Congress (INC)
(INC)- SAROJINI NAIDU
17. First woman governor of India- SAROJINI NAIDU
18. First woman Chief Minister of India
India- SUCHETA KRIPALANI
19. First woman speaker of the Lok Sabha- MEIRA KUMAR
20. First education minister of India- MAULANA KALAM AZAD
21. First Muslim President of India- ZAKIR HUSSAIN
22. First Home Minister of India- SARDAR VALLABHAI PATEL
23. First Finance Minister of India- RK SHANMAKHUM CHETTY
24. First speaker of the Lok Sabha- GV MAVLANKAR
25. First President of Indian National Congress- WC BENERJEE
26. First Indian to receive Gold Medal at Olympics- ABHINAV BINDRA (2008)
27. India’s first woman to win an Olympics medal- KARNAM MALLESWARI
28. First Chess Grandmaster of India- VISWANATHAN ANAND
29. First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft- AVANI CHATURVEDI
30. First Indian Nobel Laureate- RABINDRANATH TAGORE-1913
31. First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics- C V RAMAN-1930
32. First woman to get Bharat Ratna Award- INDIRA GANDHI-1971
33. First Defence Minister of India- BALDEV SINGH
34. First Hydroelectric plant in India- SIDRAPONG HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT, SIKKIM
35. First to receive Param Vir Chakra- MAJOR SOMNATH SHARMA
36. First to receive Jnanpith Award- G SHANKAR KURUP
37. First Indian to receive Oscar award- BHANU ATHAIYA
38. First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award- ACHARYA VINOBA BHAVE
39. First India to receive Nobel Prize in Economics- AMARTYA SEN
40. First Chairperson of Lokpal of India- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE
41. First Satellite launched by India- ARYABHATTA
42. First computer of India- TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic
Calculator)
43. First Newspaper in India- BENGAL GAZETTE-1780
44. FIRST Indian to be in space- RAKESH SHARMA
45. First moon mission of India- CHANDRAYAAN-1 (2008)
46. First Indian to develop an airplane- SHIVKAR BAPUJI TALPADE
47. First Nuclear power plant- TARAPUR ATOMIC POWER PLANT
48. First nuclear reactor’s name in India- APSARA
49. First silent movie in India- RAJA HARISHCHANDRA-1913
50. First talking movie in India- ALAM ARA-1931
51. First colour film in India- Kisan Kanaya-1937
52. First IAS officer of India- SATYENDRANATH TAGORE
53. First Nuclear test in India- May 1974 SMILING BUDDHA
54. First General Election in India- 1951-1952
55. First female IPS officer of India- KIREN BEDI
56. First woman to climb mount everest from India- BACHADRI PAL
57. First Asian Games- NEW DELHI, 1951
58. First Hindi Newspaper in India- UDANT MARTAND, 1826
59. First temple cut out of a single rock- KAILASH TEMPLE, ELLORA (RASHTRAKUTA)
60. First dam in India- KALLANI DAM (2nd CENTURY AD, CHOLA DYNASTY)
