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ECONOMY: Key Banking and Financial Terms Economics: The Basics Facts GEOGRAPHY : OUR ATMOSPHERE GEOGRAPHY : MOUNTAINS, WEATHERING, DRAINAGE SYSTEM GEOGRAPHY : CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTHS INTERIOR GEOGRAPHY : UNIVERSE & THE SOLAR SYSTEM COMPUTERS TERMINOLOGY INDIA : AGRICULTURE INDIA : FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES INDIA : HEALTH AND FAMILY INDIA : COMMERCE INDIA : FINANCE INDIA : ENVIRONMENT INDIA : ENERGY INDIA : COMMUNICATION INDIA : EDUCATION SYSTEM INDIA : ART AND CULTURE INDIA : DEFENCE INDIA: THE POLITY INDIA : NATIONAL SYMBOLS INDIA :LAND AND THE PEOPLE IMPORTANT PLACES IN INDIA GEOGRAPHY : List of Countries by Population GEOGRAPHY : Countries by Area GEOGRAPHY : List of Countries by Highest Point GEOGRAPHY : List of Waterfalls GEOGRAPHY : List of Deserts GEOGRAPHY: List of local winds GENERAL SCIENCE : BIOLOGY GOVERNMENT SCHEMES & POLICIES BANKING G.K. INDIAN POLITY : AN OVERVIEW MODERN INDIAN HISTORY : AN OVERVIEW MEDIEVAL INDIAN HISTORY : AN OVERVIEW ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY : AN OVERVIEW Facts About India INSTITUTES, INSTALLATIONS, LABORATORIES, GOVERNMENT INDUSTRIAL, PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKING FIVE YEAR PLANS OVERVIEW JURISDICTION AND SEAT OF THE HIGH COURTS STANDING COMMITTEES OF PARLIAMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

FIRST IN INDIA
FIRST IN GOVERNANCE
First President of India First Prime Minster of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962) Jawahar Lal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Vallabhbhai Patel Indira Gandhi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party By Janata Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minster (19771980)

First Vice President of India First Deputy Prime Minster of India First Prime Minister to be voted out of Office

First Non-Congress Government

First Prime Minister to lead a minority Government P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16, 1996. for a full term (five year) First Prime Minister from South India First Governor-General First British Governor-General First British Viceroy of India First Governor General of Independent India P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16, 1996. Warren Hastings Lord William Bentinck Lord Canning Lord Mountbatten, 1947

First and Last Indian Governor-General of Indian C. Rajagopalachari, 1948 Union First Chief Justice of India First Indian ICS Officer First Speaker of Lok Sabha First Finance Minister of Independent India First Sikh Prime Minister First Muslim President First Sikh President Presentation of Independence First Budget after Justice Hiralal J. Kania Satyendranath Tagore, 1863 Shri G.V. Mavlankar Shri R.K. Shanmukhan Chettys Manmohan Singh Zakir Hussain (1967-1969) Giani Zail Singh Indias Shri R.K. Shankukhan Chettys on Nov 26, 1947

First President to die in Office First Prime Minister of completing his full term India resigned

Dr. Zakir Hussain without Morarji Desai

First Prime Minister who did not face the Parliament Charan Singh First Chief Justice of Supreme Court to became Justice M. Hidaytullah President of India

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President of India First Education Minister First Home Minister First Chief Election Commissioner

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Abul Kalam Azad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sukumar Sen TABLE OF PRECEDENCE UNION, STATE AND CONCURRENT LIST SCHEDULES OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION ARTICLES OF THE CONSTITUTION OFFICERS UNDER GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ZONAL RAILWAYS IMPORTANT DAYS AND INTERNATIONAL YEARS FIRST IN INDIA AND WORLD FAMOUS TOURIST PLACES DANCES/ MUSICS TOWNS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES RANKS AND LEADING PRODUCERS PUNCH LINES & TAGLINES Parliament of Different Countries World Countries and their Major Religions NICK NAMES/ REAL NAMES NATIONAL HIGHWAYS RIVER SYSTEM RACES AND TRIBES LIST OF BIOSPHERE RESERVES GEOGRAPHICAL FACTS ABOUT NATIONS OF THE WORLD CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD OCEANS, RIVERS AND LAKES OF THE WORLD IMPORTANT LINES AND BOUNDARIES FAMOUS COUNTRIES EXPLORATIONS OFFICIAL BOOKS AND PAPERS TERRITORIES, COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES NATIONAL EMBLEMS OF COUNTRIES WONDERS OF THE WORLD RIVER SIDE CITIES INDIAN SATELITES: AT A GLANCE IMPORTANT IRRIGATION AND POWER PROJECTS WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES AND NATIONAL PARKS IN INDIA IMPORTANT RIVERS/LAKES OF THE WORLD NEW NAMES/OLD NAMES DISPUTED AREA FINANCIAL COMMITTEES & WORKING GROUPS NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE BOOKS OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND VICEROYS IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSION IMPORTANT FOREIGN TRAVELLERS /ENVOYS WORLD HISTORY: IMPORTANT DATES INDIAN HISTORY-IMPORTANT DATES SEPARATIST / TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

FIRST IN DEFENCE
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India General Sir Roy Bucher

First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949. First Chief of Air Staff First Indian Chief to Staff First Indian Commander-in-Chief , IAF First Chief of Naval Staff First Field Marshal of India First Person to receive Paramvir Chakra First Cosmonaut Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947 Air Marshal Suboroto Mukherjee, 1954 Vice Admiral R.D. Katari S.H.F. Manekshaw Major Somnath Sharma Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984

FIRST IN NOBEL PRIZE

First Nobel Prize Winner Rabindranath Tagore for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. He was also the First Asian to get the prize. First Nobel Physics First Nobel Medicine Prize in C.V. Raman in1930

Prize

in Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (India born US citizen)

First Nobel Peace Prize First Nobel Economics Prize

Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albanian nun, Indian citizen). in Amartya Sen in 1998

FIRST IN AWARDS AND TITLES

First

Miss World

Rita Faria in 1966 Sushmita Sen in 1994 Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr. C.V. Raman in 1954. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Saifuddin Kitchlu Sivaji Ganesan Shri Shankar Kurup Devika Rani in 1969 to a civilian D.K. Jatar

First Miss Universe First Booker Prize First Bharat Ratna

First Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna First person to receive Stalin Prize First Chevalier First person to receive Jnanpith Award First Dadasaheb Phalke Award First Ashoka (posthumous) Chakra award

First Magsaysay Award

Vinoba Bhave

First Winner of a major literary award in the Dhan Gopal Mukerji United States First Ford Supermodel of the World (contest) Bipasha Basu, 1996

FIRST IN EXPLORATION
First person to reach the South Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj Pole

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NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FAMOUS BOOKS SPORTS & GAMES AWARDS & HONOURS COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ABBREVIATION

First Woman to scale Mount Everest Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.

FIRST IN FILM AND TV

First Sound Film First Oscar Winner First Oscar nomination language film for best Alam Ara, 1931 Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982. foreign Mother India in 1957

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First National Film Award for cinema First Colorized Film

Shyamchi Aai in 1954 Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960). Hum Log, started in 1984 was also the first soap opera of India. Kamal Haasan

First sponsored TV serial First actor to enact 10 roles

FIRST IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First Hydroelectric Plant On the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka. Built in 1902. Bangaluru in 1906 (It was the first city in Asia to have electricity). Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide. Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle. Columbia flight STS-87 on November 19, 1997. Durga Agarwal, born 1978. 1981 Tarapur, Maharashtra

First City to have electricity First man in space

First Woman in Space

First Test-Tube baby First scientific expedition to Antarctica First Nuclear Reactor

First Genetically Modified Food Product in Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid (Bt.-Bacilius thuringiensis). India First satellite First satellite dedicated educational services exclusively Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975. for EDUSAT

First successfully indigenous launch vehicle.

SLV-3.

FIRST IN SPORTS
First Olympic team medal Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands.

First Olympic individual Norman Pritchard, 1900. medal (in British India) First medal Olympic individual Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki.

First person to swim across Mihir Sen, 1958. the English Channel First women to swim across Arati Saha, 1959. the English Channel First Formula 1 race driver First Formula 1 team First A1 GP race victory First Chess Grandmaster First FIDE Champion World Narain Karthikeyan Force India F1 Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007. Viswanathan Anand in1988, at the age of 18. Chess Viswanathan Anand in December 2000.

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First undisputed World Chess Viswanathan Anand in September, 2007. Champion First Tennis Grand Slam Title Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open. First Tennis Grand Slam win Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 by a woman Australian Open First Woman in the 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Tennis. Grand Slam event First Tennis Junior Title Grand Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open. Slam Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship.

First Tennis Grand Junior title by a woman First Cricket Tournament First Cricket Test Match

Slam Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. The Bombay Triangular which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936). Australia against England at Lords, June 25, 1932. C.K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.

First Indian Cricket Captain

First Indian Cricket to score a Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay century First Cricketer to score a Vijay Hazare triple century First ODI cricket hat-trick First Cricket World Championship win Chetan Sharma in Reliance World Cup against New Zealand in 1987. Cup At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies.

First Batsman to complete Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat). 10,000 runs in Test Cricket First Batsman to complete Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat).

10,000 Runs in ODI Cricket First Cricket Twenty 20 World 2007 Cup Winner First Cricketer to score 75 Sachin Tendulkar. Test and ODI Centuries

FIRST IN WOMEN
First Woman Prime Minister First Woman Minister in a Government First Woman Chief Minister of a State First Woman Governor First Woman Central Minister First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly First Woman Indian National Congress President First Woman President First Woman Graduates First Woman Institution Head of an Undergraduate Indira Gandhi Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Sucheta Kripalani, 1963 Sarojini Naidu Vijaylakshmi Pandit Shanno Devi Annie Besant Pratibha Patil Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883. Academic Chandramukhi Basu, 1888.

First Woman Honours Graduate First Woman Lawyer First Woman Judge

Kamini Roy (1886) Cornelia Sorabjee Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937). Smt. Leela Seth (HP High Court) Kumari Justice M. Fatima Beevi

First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court First Woman Judge in Supreme Court of India

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First Woman Judge in Supreme Court of India First Woman Physician First Woman Airline Pilot First Woman Olympic Medal Winner First Woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner First Woman IPS Officer First Woman Nobel Prize Winner First Woman Ambassador First Woman to climb Mount Everest Twice First Woman President of Indian National Congress First Woman Pilot in Indian Air Force First Woman President of the UN General Assembly First Woman Chairman of UPSC First Woman Director General of Police First Woman Lieutenant General First Woman Air Vice Marshal First Woman to receive Bharat Ratna First Woman to receive Jnanpith Award

FIRST IN INDIA AND WORLD

Kumari Justice M. Fatima Beevi Kadambini Ganguly, 1886 Durga Banerjee Karnam Malleswari, 2000 Kamlijit Sandhu Kiran Bedi Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen). Miss C.B. Muthamma Santosh Yadav Annie Besant Harita Kaur Dayal Vijay Laxmi Pandit Roze Millian Bethew Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Puneeta Arora P. Bandopadhyaya Indira Gandhi Ashapurna Devi

FIRST IN THE WORLD

First men to climb Mt. Everest First man to reach north pole First man to reach south pole First religion of the world First country to print books First country to issue paper currency First country to start civil services competition First President of United States of America First Prime Minister of Great Britain First Secretary General of United Nations First country to make education compulsory First country to win the world cup football First country to make a constitution Pakistans first Governor General First summit of NAM was organized in First European to visit China First men to fly an aeroplane First person to sail around the world First country to send human to moon First country to launch satellite into space First country to host the modern of Olympic games First President of the Republic of China Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary Robert Peary Ronald Amundsen Sanatan Dharma China China China George Washington Robert Walpole Trigve Li Prussia Uruguay (1930) United States of America Mohammed Ali Jinnah Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) Marco Polo Wright Brothers Ferdinand Magellan United States of America Russia (former USSR) Greece Dr. Sun Yat-sen

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First President of the Republic of China First city to be attacked with Atom Bomb First radio telescope satellite was launched into space by First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India First university of the world First man to set foot on the Moon First man to go into space First space shuttle launched First space ship landed on mars First woman Prime Minister of England First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country First woman Prime Minister of a country First woman cosmonaut in space First woman to climb Mt. Everest First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibralter First woman President of UN General Assembly First European invader of Indian soil First Woman to reach the North Pole First Woman to reach Antarctica First man to draw the map of earth First man to compile Encyclopedia First eldest man to climb Mt. Everest First man to win Nobel Prize for literature First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

FIRST IN INDIA AND WORLD

Dr. Sun Yat-sen Heroshima (Japan) Japan V.I. Bulganin Taxila University Neil Armstrong (U.S.A.) Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) Columbia Viking-I (July, 1976) Margaret Thacher Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) S. Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka) Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) Junko Tabei (Japan) Taranath Shenoy (India) Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953) Alexander, The Great Ms. Fran Caroline Michaelson Anexemander Aspheosis (Athens) Richard Wass Rene F.A. and Sulli Pradhom (France) Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland) and Freoderi Peiry (France) W.K. Roentgen (Germany) J.H. Wenthoff (Holland)

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