First women in India 1. Woman Minister of Indian Union Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 2. Woman Chief Minister of State Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani 3. Woman Governor Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 4. Woman President of Indian National Congress Dr. Annie Besant 5. Woman Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi 6. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly Mrs. Shanno Devi 7. Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 8. Muslim President of Indian Union Dr. Zakir Hussain 9. Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar 10. Woman to climb mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 11. Woman Judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi 12. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court Smt. Leela Seth 13. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) Kalpana Chawla 14. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) 15. The First Indian World Chess Champion Vishwanathan Anand 16. India’s first paperless Newspaper The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) 17. India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer Sonali Banerjee 18. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha G. M. C. Balyogi 19. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness Krishna Kant 20. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) For more Information visit on link:
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