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FIRST IN INDIA - General Knowledge

Written By Admin on August 11, 2014 | Monday, August 11, 2014

  
Actress to win Padma Shri Award
Nargis Dutt(1958)
Architect
Maha Govinda (5 th B.C)
Atomic Station
Tarapore Power Staion Near Mumbai
Aryabatta medal Winner
 K R Ramanathan(1977)
Bank in India
Bank of Hindustan
Bharat Rathna Winner
C.Rajagopalachari
British Governor General of Free India
Lord Mountbatten(Aug15, 1947-June 20,1948)
Captain of Test Cricket
C K Nayudu(1932)
Century in Test cricket
Lala Amarnath(1933-1934
Chairman of Rajya Sabah
S V Krishnamurty
Chevalier Award Winner
Shivaji Ganesan
Chief Election Commissioner
Sukumar Sen
Chief Justice Of India
Hiralal J Kania(1950-1951)
Chief of Air Staff
Sir Thomas Elmhirst(1947-1950)
Chief of Army Staff
M Rajendra Sinhji(April1,1955-May 14,1955)
Chief of Army Staff to die in harness
B C Joshi
Chief of Coast Guard
V A Kamath(1978-1980)
Chief of Naval Staff
R D Katari(1958-1962)
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College
Fort William College ,Calcutta
Commander in Chief
K M Cariappa(1949-1953)
Cosmonaut
Rakesh Sharma(1984)
Cricketer to have batted in all positions
VInoo Mankad(1 to 11)
Dada Saheb Palke Award winner
Devika Rani Roerich(1969)
Dancer  to perform abroad
Uday Shankar
Deputy Prime Minister
Sardar Vallabhai Patel(1947-1950)
Emperor of Mughal Dynasty
Babar(1526-1530)
English Song
My Heart is Beating from Julie(1974)
Electric Train
In Mumbai Between Mumbai V T and Kurla(in 1925)
Engineering College
Thompson College ,Roorkee
Eye Hospital
Chennai Eye Hospital
Field Marshal
S H F J Maneshaw(1973)
First Colour Film
“Can-Can Dance”
First indigenous Film
“Pundalik” made by R G Torney and N G Chitre
First Talkie Film
“Alam Ara” by Ardeshir Irani(1931)
First Animated Film
“On A Moon Lit Night” by R C Bora
First Hollywood film dubbed in Hindi
“Jurassic Park”
First Sanskrit Film
Shankaracharya
First Child Star
Bhalachandar(Son of Dada saheb Pahalke)
First Female Child Star
Mandakini (Daughter of Dada sahib Phalke)
Film Star Chief Minister
 M G Ramachandran(Tamil Nadu,1977)
Finance Minister of Free India
 R K Shanmughan Cetty(1947)
Finance Minister to present the Budget 3 times in a row
Man Mohan Singh(1993,94,95)
Foreign Bank in India
Chartered Bank
Finix Award winner
Sr. P C Sorcar
Geometer
Baudhyana ,sulva sutras(800 B C)
General Elections
 In 1952
Governer General Of British India
Wareen Hastings(1773-1785)
Governer-general of Free India
C Rajagopalachari(June 1948-Jan 1950)
Grammarian
Panini,Ashtadhyaayi
Helms Award winner
Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu(1952)
Home Minister
Vallabhai Patel(1946)
ICS Officer
Satyendranath Tagore
Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress
Sarojini Naidu(1952

J C Bose Medal Winner
V Ramalingaswami
Jain Tirthankara
Rishabha Dev
Jana pith Award winner
G Sankara Kurup(Odakuzhal),1965
Lady of the Indian Film
Devika Rani Roerich
Lata Mangeshkar Award Winner
Naushad ,1984
Library
William Carey Library at Serampore in 1800
Law University
National Law school of India, Bangalore
Law giver
Manu smriti(3100 B C )
Man to Climb Mount Everest
Tenzing Norgay(with Edmund Hillary,1953)
Man to Reach across English Channel
Mihir Sen(1966)
Male Child Star
Bhalachandra (Son of Dadasaheb Phalke)
Medical College
Medical College, Bengal(Now Calcutta Medical College) (By Lord William Bentinck jan28,1935)
Man to win individual Olympic Medal
K D Jadhav(Bronze on Wrestling-Helsinki Olympics,1952)
Managing Director of World bank
Gautam Kaji(1995)
Member of British Parliament
Dadabhai Naoroji(1862)
Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council
Sir S P Sinha(1909)
Missiles-First tactical surface to surface missile
Prithvi
Short range surface to air missile
Trishul
Intermidiate range ballistic missile
Agni
Long Range multiple target missile
Akash
Missile firing Submarine
INS Sindhushastra(July 19,2000)
Miss Universe
Sushmita Sen(1994)
Miss World
Riet Faria
Musician to get Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan
M S Subbulakshmi(1954-1975)
Musician to get Raman Magsaysay Award
M S Subbulakshmi(1974)
Naval Ships-First Missile Boat
INS Vinash
First Frigate
INS Khukri
Tanker
INS Shakti
Indigenous Ship
INS Magar
First frigate with modern guided missiles
INS Godavari

Aircraft Carrier
INS Vikrant
National Anthem(First Sung)
First sung on Dec 27,1911 at Kolkatta session of Indian National Congress
National Flag(First Hoisted)
At Green Park,Kolkatta,on Aug 7,1906 by Surendranath Bannerji
Newspaper
The Bengal Gazatte
First Vernacular Paper
“Samachar Darpan”(in Bengali from Serampore on May 31,1818)
Nobel Prize winner
Rabindranath Tagore,Gitanjali(1913)
Open University
Andhra Open University
Oscar Winner
Bhanu Athaiya
Pilot
J R D Tata ,Tata Airlines(1929)
Post Office(First GPO)
At Fort St.George Square,Chennai
Post office outside the country
At Dakshin Gangotri on Antarctica
Post office Stamp Designer
Captain H L  Thuillier ,Deputy surveyor of General,Kolkatta
State to Issue Stamp
Kathiawar in saurashtra(now Gujarat state)
Stamp Honouring a National Leader
Mahatma Gandhi on August 15,1948
Postoffice-first Airmail
Allahabad to Naini on Feb 18,1911
Presentation of Budget
R K Shanmugham cettty,Finance Minister(1947)
President
Rajendra  Prasad(1950-1962)
President of Indian National Congress
W C Banerjee(1885)
President of International Court of Justice
Nagendra Singh(1970)
President to die in Harness
Zakir Hussain
Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru(1947-1964)
Prime Minister to die in Harness
Jawaharlal Nehru(1964)
Prime Minister to resign from office
Morarji Desai(1979)
Prime Minister who did not face parliament
Chaudary charan singh(July28,1979-Jan 14,1980)
Raman Magsaysay Award Winner
Vinoba Bhave(1958)
Recipient of World Food Prize
M S Swaminathan
Satellite
Aryabhatta
Experimental Geostationary Satellite
APPLE(Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment)
Satellite Launch Vehicle
SLV-3
Earth-cum-communication Satellite
INSAT-1A
Solar-Powered Station
Yedakumeri(on Hasan-mangal Section)
Slave Ruler of India
Qutub-ud-din Aibak(1206-1210)
Speaker in Hindi at the UN
Atal Bihari Vajpayee(1977)
Speaker of Lok Sabah
Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar(1952-1957)
Subscriber Telephone Dialling (STD)
Between Lukcnow and Kanpur(Nov 26 ,1960)
First Telephone exchange
In Mumbai by Oriental Telephone Co. on Jan 30,1882
Automatic telephone Exchange
At Shimla in 1914
International subscribers Dialling(ISD)
Between Mumbai and London in 1976
Telegraphs and telephones(first telegraph line)
From kolkatta to Diamond Harbour, a distance of 33.8 km in 1838 by William B.O’shaughnessy,an Irish Professor at Calcutta Medical College
Telex Exchange
Mumbai and Ahmedabad in 1953
Test-Tube Baby
Baby Harsha or Indira(1986)
 Train Journey(First)
Mumbai to Thane(a distance of 34 km)on April 16,1853
First Electric Train
In Mumbai between Mumbai And Kurla(in 1925)
First Metro train
At Kolkatta
First Super Fast Train
“Rajdhani Express” between New Delhi And Howrah
First Railway Company
East Indian Railway Company and Great Indian Peninsular railway Company
Use of Indelible Ink
Third Lok sabha Elections in 1962
Vice-President
S Radhakrishnan
Viceroy of India
Lord Canning(1858-1862)
Woman(Muslim)Ruler of India
Razia Sulthan(1236-1240)
Woman Ambassador
Vijayalakshmi Pandit(U S S R, 1947-1949)
Woman central Minister
Raj Kumari Amrit(health)
Woman chairperson of NFDC
Hema Malini
Woman Chief justice of high court
Leila Seth(Himachal Pradesh,1991)
Woman Chief Minister
Sucheta Kripalani(Uttar Pradesh)
Woman to Win Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa
Woman Secretary General of Rajya Sabha
V S Ramadevi(1993)
Woman IAS Officer
Anna Rajan Goeorge(1950)
Woman IPS Officer
Kiran Bedi(1974)
Woman Jana pith Award winner
Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti(1976)
Woman Judge of Supreme Court
Meera Sahib Fatima beevi(1989)
Woman Minister of State
Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh 1937)
Woman Pilot (Indian Airlines)
Durba Banerjee(1966-1988)
Woman President of Indian National Congress
Annie Besant(1917)
Woman President of UN General Assembly
Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1953)
Woman Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi(1966-1977,1980-1984)
Woman to Climb Mount Everest
Bachendri Pal(1984)
Woman to Perform a solo flight
Harita Kaur Doel(1994)
Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner
Amrita Pritam,Sunehre(1956)
Woman Shehnai Player
Bageswari Gamar
Woman to Swim across English Channel
Arati saha(1959)
Woman to swim across the strait of Gibraltar
Arti Pradhan
Woman to Win an Asian Gold
Kamaljit Sandhu(1970)
Woman to win individual Olympic Medal
Karanam Malleshwari (Bronze in Weightlifting –sydney Olympics 2000)
Woman to win a Grand Slam
Sania mirja(wimbledon 2003)
Woman to go in space
Dr.Kalpana Chawla(Nov 1997)
Women University
Indian Women’s University,Pune
Women’s  Hospital
Muslim Maternity and Zenana Hospital,Hyderabad
Women’s College
Bethune College,Kolkatta
Woman Doctor
Dr.Kandambani Ganguli
Woman Advocate and Barrister
Cornelia sorabjee
Women’s University
Indian Women’s University,Pune(founded by D K Karve)

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