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1. First Atomic Submarine of India
- I.N.S Chakra
2. First British to visit India - Hawkins
3. First election commissioner of
India - Sukumar Sen.
4. India's First nuclear centre - Tarapur
5. First foreign recipient of
Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
6. First Post Office opened in
India - Kolkata in 1727
7. First deputy Prime Minister of
India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
8. First Space Tourist of India - Santosh George
9. First Aircraft Carrier Indian
Ship - I.N.S. Vikrant
10. First Indian who reached South
Pole - Col. I K Bajaj
11. First Indian who won Billiards
Trophy - Wilson Jones
12. First Indian Prime Minister who
resigned from Office - Moraji Desai
13. First Indian recipient of Oscar
Award - Bhanu Athaiya
14. First Indian Missile - Prithvi
15. First Indian to win Nobel Prize
- Rabindranath Tagore
16. First Scientist of India to get
Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr. Amartya Sen
17. Name of the first person to get
Paramvir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma
18. First Indian to go into space - Rakesh Sharma
19. First speaker of Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavlankar from 1952-1957
20. First president of Indian
National Congress - W.C. Banerjee
21. India's first woman president - Smt. Pratibha Patil
22. First woman governor of India - Sarojini Naidu
23. First Indian woman ruler - Razia Sultan on Delhi's throne
24. First Indian woman to get noble
prize - Mother Teresa in 1979
25. First woman judge of Supreme
Court of India - Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
26. India's first woman IPS officer
- Kiran Bedi
27. India’s first Governor-General
of Independent in India – Lord Lewis Mountbatten
28. India’s first Governor of RBI –
Sir Osborne Smith
29. India’s first sportsperson to
receive Bharat Ratna – Sachin Tendulkar
30. India’s first swimmer who
crossed over the English Channel by swimming – Mihir Sen
31. India’s first Woman Air Pilot –
Durba Banerjee
32. India’s first person who
delivered the lecture in Hindi in UNO – Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
33. Mountaineer who scaled Mount
Everest 8 Times – Sherpa-Augarita
34. Indian player who played the
test cricket – K.S.Ranjeet Singh
35. Actress to win Padma Shri Award
– Nargis Dutt, 1958
36. India’s first Newspaper –
Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760
37. First Indian who individually
won the Gold Medal in Olympic Games – Abhinav Bindra
38. First Indian who won the bronze
medal in Boxing in Olympic Games – Vijendra Kumar
39. Internet came to India in –
August 15, 1955 (provided by BSNL)
40. India’s first newsprint factory
was set up at – Nepanagar (MP)
41. Broadcasting started in India -
1927
42. All India Radio established –
1936
43. Railways started – April 16,
1853
44. First Satellite Launched – 19
April, 1975
45. First Indian Woman to reach in
Olympic Games - Sini Abrahim
