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Architecture First Islamic (tomb) in India: Sultan Ghari (Hindi, Urdu) was the first Islamic Mausoleum (tomb) built in 1231 AD for Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish.
Architecture First true dome: Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi, built in 1311 CE, by first Khilji Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din Khilji.
Architecture First true arch: Balban's tomb, Mehrauli Archeological Park, Delhi, built c. 1287 CE, by Ghiyas ud din Balban of Mamluk dynasty.
Architecture First garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome: Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, built 1562-1571 CE.
Architecture First Mosque in India: Cheraman Juma Masjid Kodungallur (Kerala), built 629-630 A.D by Malik ibn Deenar, an Arab trader on the order of Chera ruler Cheraman Perumal (Tajjudin after conversion to Islam).
Awards and Titles Mr. Universe: Manohar Aich in 1952
Awards and Titles Miss World: Reita Faria in 1966. (She was also the first Asian to win the title.)
Awards and Titles Miss Asia Pacific: Zeenat Aman in 1970
Awards and Titles International Teen Princess: Radha Bartake in 1974
Awards and Titles Miss Teenage Intercontinental: Elizabeth Anita Reddi in 1978
Awards and Titles World Miss University: Priyadarshini Pradhan in 1989
Awards and Titles Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994
Awards and Titles Miss India Worldwide: Karminder Kaur Virk in 1994.
Awards and Titles Miss Intercontinental Pageant: Lara Dutta in 1997.
Awards and Titles Mr. International: Aryan Vaid in 2000
Awards and Titles Manhunt International: Rajeev Singh in 2001
Awards and Titles Miss Tourism International: Candice Pinto in 2001
Awards and Titles Mrs. World: Aditi Gowitrikar in 2001
Awards and Titles Miss Tourism World : Payal Rohatgi in 2002
Awards and Titles Miss Tourism Queen International: Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan in 2004
Awards and Titles Miss World Tourism : Sonal Chauhan in 2005.
Awards and Titles Miss Tourism: Priyanka Shah in 2007
Awards and Titles Miss Earth: Nicole Faria in 2010
Awards and Titles Miss Tourism Queen Of The Year International: Urvashi Rautela in 2011
Awards and Titles Miss Asia Pacific World: Himangini Singh Yadu in 2012
Awards and Titles Mister United Nations : Rahul Vyas in 2013
Awards and Titles First Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States, in 1927 for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon: Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Awards and Titles Nirad C. Chaudhuri, first Indian to win a major non-fiction award, the Duff Cooper Prize in the United Kingdom, in 1966 for The Continent of Circe
Awards and Titles Man Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy for her novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997.
Awards and Titles Bhaswati Bhattacharya was the first Indian to speak as Orator at the Harvard University, in the Commencement Exercises in 1993.
Awards and Titles Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and C. V. Raman in 1954
Awards and Titles Padma Vibhushan: Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon in 1954
Awards and Titles Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters: Mrinal Sen
Awards and Titles Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Sivaji Ganesan
Awards and Titles Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969
Awards and Titles Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian: D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit, captain and co-captain respectively, of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"
Awards and Titles Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave, 1958
Awards and Titles Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952-Saifuddin Kitchlew
Awards and Titles Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray
Awards and Titles Nishan-e-Pakistan: Morarji Desai, 1990
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore in 1913. He was also the first Asian to win the prize.
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930.
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968 (US citizen of Indian origin)
Nobel Prize Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979 (Indian citizen of Albanian origin)
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Physics: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1983 (US citizen of Indian origin)
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (USA citizen of Indian origin)
Defence President of Indian Republic: Dr Rajendra Prasad
Defence Vice President of Indian Republic: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Defence Defence Minister of India: Baldev Singh
Defence Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Sir Roy Bucher
Defence Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
Defence Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
Defence Indian Chief of Staff: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
Defence Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
Defence Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D Katari
Defence Cosmonaut: Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
Defence Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw, 1973
Defence First Parsi Army Chief: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
Defence First Parsi Navy Chief: Admiral J L Cursetji
Defence First Parsi Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Aspy Engineer
Defence First Christian Army Chief: General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
Defence First Christian Navy Chief: Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
Defence First Christian Air Force Chief: Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
Defence First Sikh Army Chief: General Joginder Jaswant Singh
Defence First Sikh Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Arjan Singh
Defence First Muslim Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
Defence First female officer to be court martialled: Anjali Gupta
Defence First female jawan in the Army: Sapper Shanti Tigga
Defence First Param Vir Chakra Winner: Major Som Nath Sharma
Economy First power in India with Soviet Collaboration: Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962.
Economy First central PSU to be privatized: Modern Food Industries in January 2000
Exploration Person to fly in a balloon and land in a parachute: Ram Chandra Chatterjee
Exploration Person to reach the South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
Exploration Woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
Exploration Woman to reach South Pole: Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
Exploration Person to reach the North Pole: Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan on April 23, 1985.
Exploration Person to have walked across Gobi desert: Sucheta Kadethankar
Film,TV & Entertainment First Film to be exhibited in India on 7 July 1896, with the Lumiere Brothers' Cinematography, unveiling six silent short films at the Watson's Hotel in Bombay, viz., Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A Demolition, Ladies & Soldiers on Wheels and Leaving the Factory.
Film,TV & Entertainment First silent film to be made in India: Raja Harishchandra, 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke.
Film,TV & Entertainment First Tamil silent film: Keechaka Vadham (1918), produced and directed by R. Nataraja Mudaliar.
Film,TV & Entertainment First actress of Indian cinema: Durgabai Kamat in Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), second movie of Phalke
Film,TV & Entertainment First Bengali film maker: Hiralal Sen
Film,TV & Entertainment First Bengali talkie: Dena Paona (1931)
Film,TV & Entertainment Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani (1969)
Film,TV & Entertainment First Government award for films: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards(1937)
Film,TV & Entertainment First Punjabi film made in the city: Kolkata
Film,TV & Entertainment First Indian filmmaker to get Bharat Ratna: Satyajit Ray (1992)
Film,TV & Entertainment Sound film: Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani, 1931, First Talkie actress: Zubeida
Film,TV & Entertainment Colour film: Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani.
Film,TV & Entertainment Film to be banned: Neel Akasher Neechey, (1959) (Directed by-Mrinal Sen).
Film,TV & Entertainment Cinemascope film: Kaagaz Ke Phool(Directed by -Gurudutt) (1959)
Film,TV & Entertainment Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Satyajit Ray (1992)
Film,TV & Entertainment Film to attract International critical attention: Pather Panchali, (1955) won eleven awards.
Film,TV & Entertainment Oscar winner: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
Film,TV & Entertainment Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film: Mother India, 1957
Film,TV & Entertainment Music director to win an Oscar and first double Oscar winner-Mr. A. R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009.
Film,TV & Entertainment Sound engineer to win an Oscar: Resul Pookutty for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009
Film,TV & Entertainment Palme d'Or at 1946 Cannes Film Festival: Neecha Nagar, directed by Chetan Anand
Film,TV & Entertainment National Film Award for cinema: Shyamchi Aai, 1954
Film,TV & Entertainment Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
Film,TV & Entertainment Sponsored TV serial: Hum Log, started on 7 July 1984, was also the first soap opera of India, ran for 156 episodes
Film,TV & Entertainment Guinness Book of World Records in the category, Fewest actors in a narrative film: Yaadein (1964) directed and acted by Sunil Dutt
Film,TV & Entertainment Actor to enact 10 roles: Kamal Haasan
Film,TV & Entertainment Actress to enact 10 roles = Priyanka Chopra plays 12 different characters in Bollywood film-"What's Your Raashee?"
Film,TV & Entertainment 3-D film: My Dear Kuttichathan, a Malayalam film, produced in 1984, dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan.
Film,TV & Entertainment 70 mm film: Around the World, a Hindi film, starring Raj Kapoor and Rajshree in 1967
Film,TV & Entertainment Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) - Director: Mrinal Sen (1985); Actor: Sivaji Ganesan (1995); Actress: Sharmila Tagore(2004)
Film,TV & Entertainment Hindi film screened at the United Nations: Lage Raho Munna Bhai, 10 November 2006,directed by Rajkumar Hirani
Film,TV & Entertainment First Bhojpuri feature film to be featured in the Indian Panorama section at the International Film Festival of India: Deswa (2011)
Film,TV & Entertainment First music record was recorded by Gauhar Jaan singing a khayal in Raag Jogiya, recorded on 2 November 1902, by Fred Gaisberg, assistant to Emile Berliner, the father of Gramophone record.
Governance President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885
Governance President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani, till November 1947
Governance President: Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
Governance First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
Governance The first Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen
Governance Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Governance The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Governance Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Governance Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–64). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.
Governance Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
Governance Law Minister of India: B. R. Ambedkar
Governance Leader of Opposition: A. K. Gopalan
Governance Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
Governance Non-Congress government: Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
Governance Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
Governance Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
Governance Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
Governance Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda
Governance Women Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
Governance The first Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858
Governance Governor-General of India: Warren Hastings, 1773
Governance Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
Governance Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
Governance Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
Governance First Sikh Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004–present)
Governance First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
Governance First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh
Governance First Chief Minister of West Bengal: Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
Governance Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
Governance Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
Governance Finance Minister of Independent India: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
Governance Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence: R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
Governance First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Governance First Indian President to die in Office: Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
Governance First Chief Minister to die in Office: C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
Governance First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
Governance First woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Governance First woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Governance First woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani
Governance First woman Governor of a State: Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49)
Governance First female Home Minister: Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.
Governance First woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
Governance First woman Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
Science The first president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress: Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1914
Science Hydroelectric plant: Sidrapong near Darjeeling, commissioned in 1897, followed by the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Mysore Kingdom, built in 1902.
Science Place to get electricity: Darjeeling in 1897, followed by Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1898 and Kolar Gold Fields in 1902.
Science Man in space: Rakesh Sharma aboard Soyuz T-11, on 3 April 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide.
Science Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
Science Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
Science Scientific Expedition to Antarctica: 1981
Science Nuclear Reactor: Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Science First Genetically Modified Food Product in India: Bt. Egg plant Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacilius thuringiensis)
Science Satellite: Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
Science Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services: EDUSAT
Science Successfully indigenous launch vehicle: SLV-3
Science Prospective space tourist: Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic
Science Cloned Animal: Bhass, sampura
Science In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Kolkata and Diamond Harbor. In 1851, it was opened for the use of the British East India Company
Science 1854: Telegraph service opened to the Public
Science First telephone exchange: On 28 January 1882, Major E. Baring, Member of the Governor General of India's Council declared open the Telephone Exchanges in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The exchange in Calcutta named the "Central Exchange", was opened at third floor of the building at 7, Council House Street, with a total of 93 subscribers. Later that year, Bombay also witnessed the opening of a telephone exchange.
Science 1902 - First wireless telegraph station established between Sagar Islands and Sandheads.
Science 1907 - First Central Battery of telephones introduced in Kanpur.
Science 1913-1914 - First Automatic Exchange installed in Shimla.
Science 1927 - Radio-telegraph system between the UK and India, with Imperial Wireless Chain beam stations at Khadki and Daund. Inaugurated by Lord Irwin on 23 July by exchanging greetings with King George V.
Science 1933 - Radiotelephone system inaugurated between the UK and India.
Science 1953 - 12 channel carrier system introduced.
Science 1960 - First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned between Lucknow and Kanpur.
Science 1975 - First PCM system commissioned between Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges.
Science 1976 - First digital microwave junction introduced.
Science 1979 - First optical fibre system for local junction commissioned at Pune.
Science 1980 - First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at Secunderabad, A.P.
Science 1983 - First analog Stored Program Control exchange for trunk lines commissioned at Mumbai.
Science 1984 - First Underground Metro Railways System at Calcutta.
Science 1984 - C-DOT established for indigenous development and production of digital exchanges.
Science 1990 - First technology park in India, Technopark, Trivandrum was launched
Science 1995 - First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis on 15 August 1995 in Delhi.
Medical Science First Graduate in Medicine: Surjo Kumar Chakraborty
Medical Science First Ever Rhinoplasty noted in world/India: Over Ksatji a British soldier by a Kumhar Vaidya.
Medical Science First physician in India and second in the world to perform the In vitro fertilization: Subhash Mukhopadhyay.
Sport Indian to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958.
Sport Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959
Sport Formula One racer: Narain Karthikeyan
Sport Formula One team: Force India F1
Sport A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
Sport Person to equal world record in Archery: Limba Ram, 1992
Sport Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar who achieved the feat in 51 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes in 2011.
Sport Ashish Kumar, first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games(November 12 to 27 November 2010, Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games(Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010). He won Bronze medal in both games.
Sport Shiva Keshavan, first Indian to win 2 Gold Medals for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan in 2011 and 2012. The Asian Champion is also a 4 time Olympian and has set the new Asian speed record on ice at 134.3 kmph and track record a 49.590 seconds.
Sport Sushil Kumar (wrestler) is the first Indian to win back to back Olympic medals (Bronze and Silver in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics respectively)
Olympics Olympic team medal: Gold in Field Hockey, Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands in the Finals.
Olympics Individual medal (in British India): Two Silver medals by Norman Pritchard in 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris. (This is disputed however. The IOC claims he participated for India. The IAAF records him as participant for Great Britain.)
Olympics Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Olympics Medal in Tennis: Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Olympics Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
Olympics Individual Gold medal: Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Olympics Individual Silver medal (Independent India): Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Olympics Medal in boxing: Vijender Kumar in the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Olympics Medal in Badminton: Saina Nehwal, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Olympics Medal in wrestling: Sushil Kumar, winning a Bronze in the Beijing Olympics 2008 and a Silver in the London Olympics 2012
Olympics Medal in boxing: MC Mary Kom, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Olympics Medal in wrestling: Yogeshwar Dutt, winning a bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Chess Chess Grandmaster: Male - Viswanathan Anand, 1988.
Chess Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old. (Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 14 years and 6 months.)
Tennis Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
Tennis Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
Tennis Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
Tennis Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.
Tennis Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship.
Tennis Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
Tennis Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.
Cricket First Cricket Club in India: Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club
Cricket First test match played in India: India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934)
Cricket First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on - against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001-02: Sourav Ganguly
Cricket First Cricket Stadium: Eden Gardens in Kolkata
Cricket First Test Victory: Against England At Madras
Cricket Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
Cricket First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Cricket Test match: Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932
Cricket Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.
Cricket ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar.
Cricket Cricketer to score a century in a Test match: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds.
Cricket First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup: Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket.
Cricket Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
Cricket Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
Cricket Indian to score an ODI century: Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Cricket Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
Cricket Hat-trick in an ODI: Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987.
Cricket First World Cup Runners up captain: Sourav Ganguly (2003)
Cricket World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of Kapil Dev
Cricket Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests: Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Cricket Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Cricket Winner of the first T20 World Cup: India (in 2007).
Cricket Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Cricket First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble (against Pakistan)
Cricket First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar
Cricket First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket: Mithali Raj [214* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
Cricket First Indian to score a T20 century: at Suresh Raina vs South Africa.
Cricket Six sixes in an Over: Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England.
Cricket First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground: India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
Cricket Fastest Fifty in a T20I: 50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007)
Women First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal (24/1/2013)
Women Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
Women The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886
Women Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
Women The first woman Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
Women Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
Women The first woman to receive Nobel Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Women Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
Women Woman to become Railway Minister of India twice in her tenure: Mamata Banerjee
Women Woman to become Railway Minister of India in two different Governments (NDA & UPA) :Mamata Banerjee
Women Woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India:Arundhati Bhattacharya
Women Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
Women Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford.
Women Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)
Women Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
Women Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
Women The first woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya
Women Supreme Court judge: Justice M. Fathima Beevi
Women High Court Judge: Anna Chandy
Women Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
Women Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
Women Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
Women In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
Women Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
Women The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias): Muthamma Chonira.
Women The first woman to cross English Channel: Aarti Saha
Women Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
Women Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
Women Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
Women Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967
Women Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
Women Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
Women Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
Women Asha Pande, first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour
Women Anjali Gopalan, first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour.
Women Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
Women President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
Women IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
Women Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
Women The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984
Women Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
Women To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
Women To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
Women Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
Women State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October, 2010
Women Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August, 2011
Women The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
Women To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011
Women First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
Women first woman IAS officer:Anna Rajan George(b1927)kerela qualified in 1950 sub divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
Women First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October, 2007)
Women First Indian Women to win Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
Places First partition of Indian state: Bengal
Places District to achieve 100% literacy rate: Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
Places City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate: Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
Places District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
Places District to be polio-free: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
Places District to achieve tobacco free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
Places District to become India's 'total electrified district': Palakkad, Kerala, 2011
Places City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009
Transport First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro as the (17Th Zonal Headquarter) (30-12-2010)
Transport First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro
Transport First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853
Transport First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
Transport First rapid transit (Metro) rail: Kolkata Metro in 1984
Transport First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
Transport First Motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.
Transport First Indians to own a motor car: Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama, a Parsi Lawyer in 1901.
Transport First competitive event: Delhi - Bombay trials in 1905 at the behest of Lord Curzon and Motor Union of Western India to test the suitability of the Automobile for Indian roads and to facilitate interaction between the fledging Automobile Industry and prospective Indian clients
Transport Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
Transport First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905
Transport First Motor Taxi: Mumbai, 1911
Transport First largescale import of motor cars: Relatively large contingent of motorcars imported for the Delhi Darbar held in 1911 to mark the arrival of King George V
Transport First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912
Transport Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920s and most British officers had cars
Transport First Assembly of motor cars: General Motors sets up the first assembly unit to assemble cars from imported parts in 1928. The National Series AB sedan is produced.
Transport First manufacture of motor cars: Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. Premier automobiles and Standard Motors setup. Technology stagnates as a result of economic autarky as India is isolated from the rest of the world
Transport First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector: Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is progressively liberalized
Transport First fully indegenous passenger car developed in India: Tata Indica, launched in 1998
Transport First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000,
Transport First major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company: Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover in 2007. Mahindra Automotive emerges as the top bidder for SsangYong Motor Company in 2010.
Transport First aeroplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910
Transport Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on 18 February, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carries mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
Transport 1927: India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends its Empire Routes to India, connecting India with the outside world for the first time through an air network. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. Passengers could be for the first time fly from Karachi to Jodhpur and to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
Transport On 10 February 1929, J. R. D. Tata is awarded India's first pilot licence, Pilot Licence No.1 by Federation Aeronotique International signed by Sir Victor Sasoon on behalf of the Aero Club of India and Burma.
Transport 1932: Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot licence when she is given an a licence by the Aero Club of India and Burma.
Transport 1932: J. R. D. Tata launches India's first scheduled airline, Tata Airlines, by piloting the first flight himself from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad on a single-engine Puss Moth with a load of airmail.
Others The first Indian to cross English Channel: Mihir Sen
Others The first Indian Air Chief Marshal: S. Mukherjee
Others First Post Office Opened in India: Kolkata (1727)
Others First telegraph message: On November 5, 1850, between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km.
Others Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939.
Others Newspaper: Hicky's Bengal Gazette started in 1780.
Others Hindi Newspaper: Udant Martand on May 30, 1826; published and edited by Jugal Kishore Shukla from Calcutta.
Others Exclusive Internet magazine: Bharat Samachar
Others Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
Others India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee
Others First Lady Teacher: Savitribai Phule
Others First Lady Doctor: Anandibai Joshi
Others First lady tennis sports: Saniya mirza
Others The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation: Shripad Vaidya
Others 13 Jun 2010 – Vaidya is the first Nagpurian to get two Limca records within a year in ... as the first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation.
Others World's first hand written needle book: Madhushala
Others Writer of world's first hand written needle book (Madhushala): Piyush Goel
Others First Disabled Friendly Bank ATM by Union Bank of India