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Firsts in India
Female Personalities
1. Delhi's First Mayor- Aruna Asaf Ali
2. Delhi's First Woman Chief SecretaryShailja Chandra
3. Fastest Asian to swim across the English
Channel- Anita Sood
4. First all-women crew to fly an air Force
Chetak Helicopter- Flight Cadets Cheryl
Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF
5. First Indian woman magistrate appointed
in United Kingdom- Kantha Talwar
6. First India woman mayor in United King
dom- Lata Patel
7. First Indian woman President of Indian
National Congress- Sarojini Naidu
8. First Indian woman producer and director
- Fatima Begum
9. First Indian woman to become Miss Uni
verse- Sushmita Sen
10. First Indian Woman to go in space- Kalpa
na Chawla
11. First woman to head any Wakf Board in
India- Bader Sayeed
12. First Indian woman to reach the final of an
Olympic event- P.T.Usha
13. First Indian woman to win a medal in an
Olympic event- Karnam Malleshwari
14. First Indian woman boxer to win an international event - M.C.Merykom
15. First Indian woman to Swim across the
English Channel - Arati Saha
16. First Miss Universe of the new millennium-Lara Dutta
17. First woman Ambassador from IndiaVijay Lakshmi Pandit
18. First woman Central Minister- Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur
19. First woman film star to be a member of
Rajya Sabha- Nargis Dutt
20.First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu Justice M. Fatima Beevi
21. First woman judicial officer- Anna Chandy
22. First woman Minister of an Indian stateVijay Lakshmi Pandit
23. First woman Speaker of an Indian stateShano Devi
24. Grandma Madonna from India- Asha Bhonsle
25. India's first Test-Tube Baby- Kruti Parekh
Firsts in India - Miscellaneous
1. First Solar Energy Centre- Gwalpahar,
Gurgaon, Haryana
2. First song-less film-JBH Wadia's Na
ujawan
3. First south Indian film to be released in
Korea- Tamil Film Muthu Maha raja
4. First Talkie Film- Alam Ara
5. First Telefilm-Satyajit Ray's Sadgat
6. First Telegraph Line -It was laid bet ween
Calcutta and Agra in 1854
7. First Telephone system- It was started in
1881 from Calcutta
8. First Wind farm-Mandvi, Kutch in Gujarat
9. Indias first Antartica expedition- January

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11, 1982
10. Indias first Satellite-Aryabhatta, April 19,
1975
11. India's first colour film- Sairandhri
12. India's first fully indigenous silent feature
film- Raja Harishchandra
13. India's first indigenously built missile
destroyer- INS 'Delhi'
14. India's first indigenously built submarineINS 'Shakti'
15. India's first indigenously made colour
film- Kisan Kanya
16. India's First Oil well- Digboi
17. India's first radio programme- ClubRadio
in 1924.
18. India's First largest inland lake-Lake
Chilika, Orissa
19. First Largest circulated periodical in IndiaMalayala Manorama
20. First Largest circulated single edition
newspaper in India-Hindustan Times from
Delhi
21. First Largest Nandi in India- Nandi of the
Leepakshi Temple at Andhra Pra desh
22. First Largest Stupa in India- Maha chaitya
Stupa, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh
23. World's First University- Taxila (700 B.C.)
24. First Air Force In Asia To Fly Jets- Indian
Air Force
25 .First Book Printed In Language- Tamil
26. First Census Of India- 1901
27. First Cinema House In India Was BuiltJ.F. Madan In Calcutta In 1907
28. First Complete Technicolor Film- Jhansi
Ki Rani
29. First Constitutional Amendment- 1950
30. First Country-Wide Agricultural Census
1970-71
31. First English Newspaper in India- Bengal
Gazette
32. First Five-Year Plan- Started in 1951
33. First General Elections- 1952
34. First hydroelectric project in India
Shivasamudram, across the River Kaveri
in 1902
35 First Indian state to set up a womens
court- Andhra Pradesh
36. First Marine National Park- Jam nagar
37. First Moonlit Animal House in Asia
Located in the Nehru Zoological Park,
Hyderabad.
38. First Postage Stamp- It was issued in
India in 1852 at Karachi.
39. First Printing Press- It was set up in Goa
in 1556 by the Portuguese.
40. First Railway Line- It was opened on April
16, 1853 between Bombay and Thane.
41 First Rupee in India- It was minted during
the reign of Sher Shah Suri in 1542.
42. First ship built in India- Jala Usha built by
Vishakapatnam Shipyard was commissioned in 1948.
43. First silent feature film in India- Pundalik
First In India (Male Personalities):
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Role
Name

1. The First President Of Indian Repu blicDr. Rajendra Prasad

2. The First Prime Minister Of Free IndiaPt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. The First Indian To Win Nobel Price-Ra
bindranath Tagore
4. The First President Of Indian National
Congress-W. C. Banerjee
5. The First Muslim President Of Indian
National Congress- Badruddin Tayyabji
6. The First Muslim President Of IndiaDr. Zakir Hussain
7. The First British Governer General Of
India- Lord William Bentinck
8. The First British Viceroy Of India- Lord
Canning
9. The First Governor General Of Free India
- Lord Mountbatten
10. The First And The Last Indian To Be
Governor General Of Free India- C.
Rajagopalachari
11.The First Man Who Introduced Printing
Press In Free India- James Hicky
12. The First Indian To Join I.C.S.- Satyengra
Nath Tagore
13. India's First Man In Space- Rakesh Shar
ma
14. The First Prime Minister In India Who Re
signed Without Completing The Full Term
- Morarji Desai
15.The First Indian Commander-in-Chief Of
India- General Cariappa
16. The First Chief Of The Army Staff- Gen.
Maharaj Rajendra Singh Ji
17.The First Indian Member Of The Vice roy's
Executive Council- S. P. Sinha
18.The First President Of India Who Died
While In Office- Dr. Zakir Hussain
19. The First Prime Minister Of India Who
Did Not Face The Parliament- Charan
Singh
20. The First Field Marshal Of India- S. H. F.
Manekshaw
21. The First Indian To Get Nobel Price In
Physics- C. V. Raman
22. The First Indian To Recieve Bharat Ratna
Award- Dr. Radhakrishnan
23. The First Indian To Cross English Channel
- Mihir Sen
24. The First Indian To Receive Jnanpith
Award - Sri Shankar Kurup
25. The First Speaker Of The Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
ABBREVIATIONS
ASSOCHAM: Associated Chambers of
Commerce and Industruy
APEC: Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation
AIR: All India Radio
BPO: Business process Outsourcing
BSE: Bombay Stock Exchange
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CII: Confederation of Indian Industries
CRR: Cash Reserve Ratio
FDI: Foreign Direct Investment
FICCI: Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry
FII: Foreign Institutional Investor

GDP: Gross Domestic Product

GNP: Gross National Product
IPO: Initial Public Offering
IDBI: Industrial Development Bank of India
JV: Joint Venture
LASER: Light Amplication by stimulated
emission of radiation
MNC: Multi National Corporation
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
NABARD: National Bank of Agricultural and
Rural Development
NASDAQ: National Association of Securities
Dealers Automated Quotation
NASSCOM: National Association of
Software and Service Companies
(of India)
NPA: Non Performing Assets
NSE: National Stock Exchange
NYSE: New York Stock Exchange
OPEC: Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
Countries
RBI: Reserve Bank of India
SEBI: Securities and Exchange Board of India
SIDBI: Small Scale Development Bank of
India
SEZ: Special Economic Zone
SLR: Statutory Liquidity Ratio
SME: Small and Medium Enterprises
VAT: Value Added Tax
VST: Visakha Steel Plant

sobriquets
City of Dreaming Spires- Oxford (UK)
City of Seven Hills- Rome
City of the Golden Gate- San Francisco, UK
Cockpit of Europe-Belgium
Dark Continent- Africa
Gift of the Nile- Egypt
Holy Land- Palestine
Island of Pearls- Bahrain
Key of the Mediterranean- Gibraltar
Land of the Kangaroo- Australia
Land of the Midnight Sun- Norway
Land of the Rising Sun- Japan
Land of the Thunderbolt- Bhutan
Land of the White Elephants- Thailand
Land of Thousand Lakes- Finland
Playground of Europe- Turkey
Roof of the World- Pamirs
Sick Man of Europe- Turkey
Yellow River- River Hwang Ho
Sugar Bowl of the World- Cuba
Venice of the North- Stockholm, Sweden
Venice of the East- Cochi (India)
Venice of the East- Bangkok (Thailand)

Pharmaceutical companies
Headquarters Founder
1. BIOCON (Bangalore)- Kiran Mazum dar Shaw
2. CIPLA (Mumbai) - Khwaza Abdul Hamied
3. Dr. Reddys Laboratories Ltd. (Hyde rabad)
- Dr. K Anji Reddy
4. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. (Gurgaon)Ranbir Singh and Gurbax Singh