List of First in India

  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

 

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