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