#FIRST IN INDIA G.K ************************* 1) President — Dr. Rajendra Prasad 2) Prime-Minister — Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 3) Governor-General of Independent India — Lord Lewis Mountbatten 4) Indian Governor-General of Independent India — Chakravarti Rajgopalachari 5) Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India — General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 6) Field Marshall — General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw 7) Speaker of Loksabha — Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956). 8) Vice-President — Dr. Sarvapalli RadhakrishnanSardar Vallabh Bhai Patel 9) Home Minister — Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel 10) Finance Minister of India — R. K. Shanmukham Chetty 11) Auditor General of India — V. Narahari Rao 12) Director of CBI — DP Kohli 13) National Security Adviser — Brijesh Mishra 14) Governor of RBI — Sir Osborne Smith 15) Non-Congress Prime-Minister — Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79. 16) British Governor-General of Bengal — Warren-Hastings 17) Space traveller — S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma 18) Civil Servant — Satendra Nath Tagore 19) Woman IAS Officer — Anna Ranjan George, 1950 20) Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming — Mihir Sen 21) Woman to swim across the English Channel — Arati Saha, 1959 22) Raman-Magsaysay awardee — Acharya Vinoba Bhave 23) Nobel prize winner — Rabindra Nath Tagore 24) Nobel Prize in Physics — C. V. Raman in 1930 25) President of National Congress — Wyomesh Chand Banerjee 26) Chairman of Lok Sabha — G. B. Mavlankar 27) First Woman Chief Minister — Sucheta Kriplani 28) Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha — Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009 29) Chief Election Commissioner — Sukumar Sen 30) Indian Chairman in International Court — Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh 31) Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna — Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 32) Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission — Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim 33) Chief Justice of Supreme Court — Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya 34) Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ — Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman 35) Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ — Indira Gandhi 36) Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters — Mrinal Sen 37) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter — Sivaji Ganeshan 38) Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee — Lal Bahadur Shastri 39) Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar — G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965) 40) Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar — Ashapurna Devi, 1976 41) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner — Amrita Pritam, 1956 42) Woman Honours Graduate — Kamini Roy 43) Woman Director General of Police — Kanchan C Bhattacharya 44) Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart — Dr. P. Venugopal 45) Woman to receive Nobel Prize — Mother Teresa 46) Woman Governor — Sarojini Naidu 47) Licensed Pilot — J R D Tata 48) Woman Air Pilot — Durba Banerjee 49) Woman Teacher — Savitribai Phule 50) Successful heart transplanted person — Devi Ram (1994) 51) President of National Human Rights Commission — Justice Rangnath Mishra 52) Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar — Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) 53) Indian who won the World Billiard award — Wilson Jans 54) Indian who won the Grammy award — Pt. Ravi Shankar 55) Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)Dada Bhai Naoroji 56) Indian member in British House of Commons — Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) 56) First President of Indian Science Congress — Sir Asutosh Mukherjee 57) Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times — Sherpa-Augarita 58) Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ — Ramvilas Sharma 59) Indian Managing Director of World Bank — Gautam Kazi 60) Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ — C. K. Naidu 61) Actress to win Padma Shri Award — Nargis Dutt, 1958 62) Indian players played Davis Cup — M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921) 63) Tennis Grandslam title winner — Mahesh Bhupati 64) Indian player who played the test cricket — K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England) 65) Scientist elected for Lok Sabha — Dr. Meghnad Saha 66) Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award — Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) 67) Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar — C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) 68) Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain — V. K. Krishna-Menon 69) Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize — Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952) 70) First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament —Lal Mohan Ghose 71) Woman Graduates — Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 72) Woman Chief Justice of High Court — Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991 73) An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period — Ram Prasad Ram 74) Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council — Sir. S. P. SinhaMorarji Desai 75) Leanin Peace Prize — Saifuddin Kitchlew 76) Chairman of Finance Commission — K. C. Niogi 77) Woman Doctorate of Science — Asima Chatterjee (1944) 78) Woman IPS — Kiran Bedi 79) Woman Supreme Court judge — Kumari Fathima Beevi 80) Indian member of American Congress — Deleep Singh 81) Editor of Time Magazine — Bobby Ghosh 82) Director of CBI becoming Governor — Ashwani Kumar 83) Person to reach the North Pole — Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar 84) Person to reach the South Pole — Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj 85) Nishan-e-Pakistan Award — Morarji Desai, 1990 86) Magsaysay Award — Vinoba Bhave, 1958 Sushmita Sen 87) Miss World — Reita Faria in 1966 88) Miss Asia Pacific — Zeenat Aman in 1970 89) Miss Universe — Sushmita Sen in 1994 90) Miss Earth — Nicole Faria in 2010 91) Place to get electricity — Darjeeling in 1897 92) Sound film — Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani 93) Colour film — Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani 94) Oscar winner — Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982. 95) Dadasaheb Phalke Award — Devika Rani in 1969 96) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters — Sivaji Ganesan 97) Test-tube baby — Durga Agarwal, born 1978 98) Newspaper — Hickeys Bengal Gazette started in 1760Tenzing Norgay 99) First Lady Doctor — Anandibai Joshi 100) Satellite — Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975 101) Man to climb Mt Everest — Tenzing Norgay 102) Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen — Phu Dorjee, 1984 103) Woman to climb Mt everest — Bachendri Pal 104) District to achieve 100% literacy rate — Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990 105) Captain in Tests — C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England 106) ODI captain — Ajit Wadekar 107) Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket — Harbhajan Singh 108) Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket — Virendra Sehwag 109) First Marshal of Indian Air Force — Arjan Singh 110) Individual Medal in Olympic games — KD Jadhav 111) Grandmaster — Viswanathan Anad 112) Woman Grandmaster — Koneru Humpy 113) First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games — Abhinav Bindra 114) First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games — Vijendra Kumar 115) Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge — Srinivasa Ramanujan 116) Fellow of the Royal Society — Ardaseer Cursetjee 117) Post Office - Kolkata(1727) 118) University - Nalanda University Hope u feel gud wid this , like & share for more updates.
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