1. Modern olympics held first in athens(greece) in 1896 .All athletes were males. 2.

The first Olympic medals credited to India were won by an Anglo Indian athlete named Norman Pritchard in the 1900 Summer Olympics held at Paris .So basically india participated in 1900 and then in 1920 and the subsequent olympics.First gold after that was in 1928(hockey). 3. India's first individual medal -KD Jadhav in wrestling 1952 Helsinki olympics. 4. http://www.iloveindia.com/history/index.html 5. http://festivals.iloveindia.com/index.html 6. http://www.iloveindia.com/national-symbols/national-calendar.html 7. http://www.prsindia.org/theprsblog/?cat=629 8. http://india.gov.in/my-government/whos-who 9. Indian female Chief Ministers
1. Sucheta Kriplani(INC)U.P. 2 October 1963 13 March 1967 2. Nandini Satpathy(INC) Orissa14 June 1972 3 March 1973, 6 March 1974 16 December 1976 3. Shashikala Kakodkar(MGP)Goa-12 August 1973 27 April 1979 4. Syeda Anwara Taimur(INC)Assam 6 December 1980 30 June 1981 5. Janaki Ramachandran(AIADMK) Tamil Nadu 730 January 1988 6. J. Jayalalithaa Tamil Nadu24 June 1991 12 May 1996, 14 May 2001 21 September 2001, 2 March 2002 12 May 2006, 16 May 2011 present 7. Mayawati(BSP) U.P. 13 June 1995 18 October 1995, 21 March 1997 21 September 1997,3 May 2002 29 August 2003, 13 May 2007 7 March 2012 8. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal(INC)Punjab21 January 1996 12 February 1997 9. Rabri Devi(RJD) Bihar25 July 1997 11 February 1999, 9 March 1999 2 March 2000, 11 March 2000 6 March 2005 10. Sushma Swaraj(BJP) Delhi13 October 1998 3 December 1998 11. Sheila Dikshit(INC)Delhi 3 December 1998 present 12. Uma Bharati(BJP)M. P. 8 December 2003 23 August 2004 13. Vasundhara Raje(BJP)Rajasthan8 December 2003 11 December 2008 14. Mamata Banerjee(TMC) West Bengal20 May 2011 present