SOME INTERNATIONATIONAL AND NATIONAL DATES

January

1. Louis Braille Day	5th January
2. World Laughter Day	10th January
3. National Youth Day ( Birthday of Swami Vivekanand	12th January
4. Army Day	15th January
5. International Customs and Excise Day	25th January
6. Tourism Day ( India)	25th January
7. Republic Day (India)	26th January
8. Martyrs’s Day	30th January
9. Leprosy Prevention Day	30th January
10. Sarvodaya  Day	30th January

February

1. Rose Day	12th February
2. Valentine Day	14th February
3. International Mother Tongue Day	21th February
4. Central Excise Tex Day	24th February
5. National Science Day	28th February

March

1. National  Safety Day ( Security of Industrial Institutions)	4th March
2. International Woman’s Day	8th march
3. World Kidney Day	9th March
4. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Foundation day	12th march
5. World Consumer Day	14th March
6. Ordnance Manufacturing Day	18th March
7. World Disabled Day	20th March
8. World Forestry Day	21st March
9. World Water day	22nd March
10. World Meteorological Day	23rd March
11. Ram Manohar Lohia’s Birth Day (Anniversary)	23rd March
12. Bhagat Singh , Sukhdev And Rajguru’s Martyrdam Day	23rd March
13. World TB (Tuberculosis) Day	24th March
14. Rural Postal Life Insurance Day	24th March
15. Sacrifice Day of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi	25th March
16. National Day of Bangladesh	26th March
17. Worldtheatre Day	27th March

April

1. National Maritime Day	5th April
2. Special Protection Group (SPG) Foundation Day	7th April
3. World Health Day	7th April
4. World Homeopathy Day (Birth day of Samuel Hanimen)	10th April
5. World Aeronautics and Cosmology Day	14th April
6. Ambedkar’s Birth Anniversary	14th April
7. World Hemophilia Day	17th April
8. World Heritage Day	18th April
9. Indian Civil Service Day	21st April
10. Earth Day	22nd April
11.World Books and Copyright Day	23rd April
12. Panchayat Divas	24th April

May

1. International Labour Day (Worker’s Day of May Day)	1st May
2. World	2nd May
3. World Press Freedom Day	3rd May
4. World Red Cross Day	8th May
5. Mother’s Day	2nd  May
6. World Laughter Day	7th May
7. World Thalassamia Day	8th May
8. International Pthylesemia Day	8th May
9. National Technological Day	11th May
10. International Nurses Day	12th May
11. International Family Day	15th May
12. World Telecommunication Day	17th May
13. Anti-Terrorism Day	21st May
14. World Biodiversity	23rd May
15. Commonwealth Day	24th May
16. Death Anniversary of Jawahar Lal Nehru	27th May
17. World Anti-Tobacco (and No-smoking )	31st May

June

1. World Environment Day	5th June
2. International Olympic Association Establishment Day	6th June
3. Father’s Day	18th June
4. World Refugee Day	20th June
5. World Diabetes Day	27th June

July

1. Doctor’s Day ( Birthday of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy )	1st July
2. State Bank of India Foundation Day	1st July
3. World Population Day	11th July
4. Kargil Memorial Day	26th July

August

1. World Breast Feeding Day	1st August
2. World Peace Day, Hiroshima Day	6th August
3. Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day	9th August
4. World Youth Day	12th August
5. Independence Day (India)	15th August
6. National Sports Day (Birth Day Of Dhyanchand)	29th August

September

1. Teacher’s Day (Birth Day of S.Radhakrishnan	5th September
2. World Literacy Day	8th September
3. World Fraternity and Apology Day	14th September
4. Hindi Dives ( Day)	14th September
5. Engineer’s Day	15th September
6. World Ozone Day	16th September
7. Railway Police Force (RPF) Foundation Day	20th September
8. Alzheimer’s Day	21st September
9. World Deaf Day and World Heart Day	24th September
10. World Tourism Day	27th September

October

1. International Oldmen’s Day	1st October
2. Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Day (International Non- violence Day)	2nd October
3. Birth day of Lal Bahadur Sastri	2nd October
4. World Habitat day	3rd October
5. World Animal Welfare Day	4th October
6. World Teacher’s Day	5th October
7. World Wild animal Day	6th October
8. Indian Air Force Day	8th October
9. World Post Day	9th October
10. Birthday of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan	11th October
11. UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction	13th October
12. World Standards Day	14th October
13. World Food Day	16th October
14. World Allergy Awareness Day	16th October
15. World Iodine Shortage Day	21st October
16. United Nation (UN) Day	24th October
17. Worldthrift Day	30th October
18. Death Anniversary of Indira Gandhi	31st October

November

1. World Service Day	9th November
2. Children’s Day (Birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru)	14th November
3. International Day For Endurance	16th November
4. World Students Day	17th November
5. National Journalism Day	17th November
6. World Adult Day	18th November
7. World Citizen Day	19th November
8. Universal Children’s Day	20th November
9. World Television Day	21th November
10.World Non-veg Prevention Day	25th November
11. World Environment Protection Day	26th November
12. National Law Day	26th November

December

1. Words AIDS Day	1st December
2. International Day forthe Abolition of Slavery	2nd December
3. World Disabled Day	3 rd December
4.Chemical Accidents Prevention Day	4th December
5. Navy Day	4th December
6. International Volunteers Day	5th December
7. International Civil Aviation Day	7th December
8. Armed Forces Flag Day	7th December
9. Girl Child Day (Balika Divas) (India)	9th December
10. International Human Rights Day	10th December
11. World Children’s Fund Day	11th December
12. World Asthma Day	11th December
13. National Energy Conservation Day	14th December
14. Liberation Day Of Goa	19th December
15. Kisan Dives (Birthday Charan Singh)	23 rd December
16. X-mas Day	25th December
17. Central Reserve Police Force( CRPF) Foundation Day	26th December

FAMOUS INDIAN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS

Here are the list of some of the important and famous books written by Indian authors.

Writer/Author	Books
1. Pt. Vishnu Sharma	Panchatanra
2. Vishakhadatta	Mudra Rakshas
3. Raskhan	Prem Vatika
4. Panini	Ashtadhyayi
5. Shudrak	Mrichhakatikam
6. Kalidasa	Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhugyanshakuntalam
7. Vigyaneshwar	Mitakshara
8. Mallanāga Vātsyāyana	Kama Sutra
9. Jeemootwahan	Daybhag
10. Kalhana	Rajtarangini
11. Plini	Natural History
12. Kautilya	Arthashastra
13. Dandi	Avanti Sundari, Dashkumaracharitam
14. Ved Vyas	Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata
15. Ashwaghosh	Buddha Charitam
16. Jayadev	Geet Govind
17. Bana Bhatt	Kadambari
18.Bhavabhuti	Malti Madhav
19. Amar Singh	Amar Singh
20. Bhartihari	Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak
21. Firdausi	Shahnama
22. Abul Fazal	Ain-i-Akbari, Akabarnama
23. Surdas	Sahityalahri, Sursagar
24. Kabirdas	Bijak, Ramayani, Sabar
25. Gulbadan Beghum	Humanyunama
26. Al-Beruni	Kitab-ul-Hind
27. Malik Mohammed Jayasi	Padmavat
28. Mulk Raj Anand	Coolie, Confession of a lover, Two leaves and a bud
29. Nirad C. Chaudhury	Hinduism, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime
30Rabindra Nath Tagore	Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones
31. Kuldip Nayyar	The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India, The Critical Years; In Jail, Indai after Nehru, Between the Lines
32. Sumitranandan Pant	Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara
33. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh	Life Divine Essays on Gita
34. Swami Shivanand	Divine Life
35. Amrita Pritam	Death of a City , Kagaz te Canvas, Forty nine Days
36. Munsi PremChand	Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi
37. Khushwant Singh	Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi; Badhate Kadam, The Company of woman
38. B.M Kaul	Untold Story, Confronation with Pakistan
39. Vijay Tendulkar	Sakharam Binder
40 R.K. Narayanan	The Darkroom, Malgudi Days, Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends
41. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan	Indian Philosophy
42. Sarojini Naidu	Golden Threshold, Broken wings
43. Suryaknt Tripathi Nirala	Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusi ki kali
44. Yashpal	Jhootha Sach
45. Jai Shankar Prasad	Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupa, Ajatshatru
46. Kazi Nazrul Islam	Agni Veena
47.Mainthilisharm Gupt	Bharat Bharati
48. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Kurukshera, Urvashi
49. Mrs. Indira Ghandhi	Eternal India
50. S.H. Vatsyayan’Agyeya’	Kitni Nawon Mein Kitenee Bar, Aangan Ke paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi Ke Dweep
51.Mahadevi Verma	Yama, Niharika, Neeraja
52. Amrit Lal Nagar	Amrit Aur Vish
53. Nayantara Sehgal	A Voice of Freedom
54. V.S. Naipal	Area of Darkness, A House for Mr.Biswas A Million Multinies Now, A Bend in the River
55. Devkinandan Khatri	Chandrakanta Santati
56. Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Devdas, Charitraheen, Shrikant, Parineeta
57. Vrindavanal  Verma	Jhansi Ki Rani
58. Jainendra Kumar	Sunita, Tyagpatra
59. Bhagwati Charan Verma	Chitralekha
60. Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’	Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam
61. Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’	Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai
62. Bhartendu Harischandra	Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY AND IMPORTANT FACTS

Location and Position of India World Scale Map:

-Lying between latitude 8˚4’ N to 37˚6’ N and from longitude 68˚4’ E to 97˚25’ E, the country is divided into almost equal parts by the Tropic of Cancer (Passing from Jabalpur in MP). 

-The southernmost point in Indian Territory, (in Great Nicobar Island) is the Indira point (6˚45’), while Kanyakumari, also known as Cape Comorin, is the southernmost point of Indian mainland.
The country thus lies wholly in the northern and eastern hemispheres. 

-The 82˚30’ E longitude is taken as the Standard Time Maridian of India, as it passes through the middle of India (from Naini, near Allahabad).

Area and Boundaries of India

-India stretches 3,214 km. from N to S & 2,933 km. from E to W.
Area: 32, 87,263 sq. km. Accounts for 2.4% of the total world area and 16% of the population. 

-Mainland India has a coastline of 6,100 km. Including the Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar, the coastline measures about 7516.6 km.

-In India, of the total land mass:
Plains: 43.3%, Plateaus: 27.7%, Hills: 18.6%, Mtns: 10.7%. 

-In the South, on the eastern side, the Gulf of Mannar & the Palk Strait separate India from Sri Lanka. 

-Total land neighbours: 7 (Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar). 

-India’s Islands include the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in Bay of Bengal & Lakshadweep, minicoy & Amindive Islands in the Arabian Sea.


Facts about Position of States of India
-Uttar Pradesh borders maximum number of states- 8 (Eight): Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, MP, Chhatisgath, Jharkhand and Bihar. 

-Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 (Eight) States: Gujarat, Rajasthan, MP, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram. 

-Indian Standard Meridian (82˚30’E meridian) passes through UP, MP, Chhatisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.

OUTLINE MAP OF INDIA

Download the map of India and mark the following points
1.Mark all the state and capitals of India

2.Mark India' s capital

3.Mark the Neighbouring countries

4.Mark the commercial capital of India

5.Mark the pink city of India

6.Mark Goa in the map

7.Mark the Union territory of India which is located in 3 state in 4 locations

8.Mark the city where Taj Mahal is located

9.Mark the capital of Lakshadweep

10.Mark Varanasi / Banaras in the map of India

In the political map of India mark the following

ORDER OF PRECEDENCE

Rank	Persons
1	President of India (Pratibha Patil)
2	Vice-President of India (Mohammad Hamid Ansari)
3	Prime Minister of India (Manmohan Singh)
4	Governors of states (within their respective states)
5	Former Presidents of India (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam), Deputy Prime Minister
6	Chief Justice of India (S. H. Kapadia),, Speaker of Lok Sabha (Meira Kuma
7	Former Prime Ministers of India (Atal Bihari Vajpayee, H. D. Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral), Cabinet Ministers of the Union, Leaders of Chief Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India, Chief Ministers of States (within their respective states), Holders of the Bharat Ratna decoration
8	Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and High Commissioners of the Commonwealth of Nations accredited to India, Governors of states (outside their respective states), Chief Ministers of states (outside their respective states)
9	Judges of the Supreme Court of India, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Chief Election Commissioner of India, Chairman of Union Public Service Commission
10	Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha, Members of the Planning Commission, Deputy Chief Ministers of States, Ministers of State of the Union (and any other Minister in the Ministry of Defence for defence matters)
11	Attorney General of India,Cabinet Secretary(K M Chandrasekhar),lieutenant Governors(within their respective Union Territories)
12	Chiefs of staff holding the rank of full General or equivalent rank
13	Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary accredited to India
14	Chairman and Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States, Chief Justices of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions
15	Cabinet Ministers in States within their respective States, Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief Executive Councillor of Delhi, within their respective Union Territories, Deputy Ministers of the Union
16	Officiating Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank
17	Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal, Chairman of Minorities Commission, Chairman of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Chief Justice of High Courts outside their respective jurisdictions, Puisne Judges of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions
18	Cabinet Ministers in States outside their respective States, Chairmen and Speakers of State Legislatures outside their respective States, Chairmen of Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, Deputy Chairmen and Deputy Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States, Ministers of State in States within their respective States, Ministers of Union Territories and Executive Councillors of Delhi within their respective Union Territories, Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan Council within their respective Union Territories
19	Chief Commissioners of Union Territories not having Councils of Ministers, within their respective Union Territories, Deputy Ministers in States within their respective States, Deputy Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Deputy Chairman of Metropolitan Council Delhi within their respective Union Territories
20	Deputy Chairman & Deputy Speakers of State Legislatures, outside their respective States, Ministers of State in States outside their respective States, Puisne Judges of High Courts outside their respective jurisdiction
21	Members of Parliament
22	Deputy Ministers in States outside their respective States
23	Army Commanders/Vice Chief of the Army Staff or equivalent in other Services, Chief Secretaries to State Governments within their respective States, Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Members of Minorities Commission, Members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Officers of the rank of full General, Admiral or Air Chief Marshal, Secretaries to the Government of India (including officers holding this office ex-officio), Secretary of Minorities Commission, Secretary of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Prime Minister, Secretary to Rajya Sabha/Lok Sabha, Solicitor General of India, Vice-Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal
24	Officers of the rank of Lieutenant-General, Vice-Admiral or Air Marshal
25	Additional Secretaries to the Government of India, Additional Solicitor General, Advocate Generals of States, Chairman of Tariff Commission, Charge Affairs and Acting High Commissioners a pied and adinterim, Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief executive Councillor of Delhi outside their respective Union Territories, Chief Secretaries of State Governments outside their respective States, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, Deputy Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Deputy Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan Council outside their respective Union Territories, Director of CBI, Director General of BSF, Director General of CRPF, Director of Intelligence Bureau, Lieutenant Governors outside their respective Union Territories, Members of Central Administrative Tribunal, Members of Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, Members of Union Public Service Commission, Ministers of Union Territories and Executives Councillors of Delhi outside their respective rank, Principal Staff Officers of the Armed Forces of the rank of Major General or equivalent rank, Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan Council outside their respective Union Territories
26	Joint Secretaries to the Government of India and Officers of equivalent rank, Officers of the rank of Major-General, Rear-Admiral or Air Vice-Marshal.

HIGH COURTS OF INDIA

State or UT	Court	City
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Calcutta High Court	Kolkata
Arunachal Pradesh	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Andhra Pradesh	Andhra Pradesh High Court	Hyderabad
Assam	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Bihar	Patna High Court	Patna
Chhattisgarh	Chhattisgarh High Court	Bilaspur
Chandigarh	Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	Bombay High Court	Mumbai
Daman and Diu	Bombay High Court	Mumbai
National capital territory of Delhi	Delhi High Court	New Delhi
Goa	Bombay High Court	Mumbai
Gujarat	Gujarat High Court	Ahmedabad
Haryana	Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh
Himachal Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh High Court	Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu and Kashmir High Court	Srinagar/Jammu
Jharkhand	Jharkhand High Court	Ranchi
Karnataka	Karnataka High Court	Bangalore
Kerala	Kerala High Court	Kochi
Lakshadweep	Kerala High Court	Kochi
Madhya Pradesh	Madhya Pradesh High Court	Jabalpur
Maharashtra	Bombay High Court	Mumbai
Manipur	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Meghalaya	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Mizoram	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Nagaland	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Orissa	Orissa High Court	Cuttack
Pondicherry	Madras High Court	Chennai
Punjab	Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh
Rajasthan	Rajasthan High Court	Jodhpur
Sikkim	Sikkim High Court	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	Madras High Court	Chennai
Tripura	Gauhati High Court	Guwahati
Uttarakhand	Uttarakhand High Court	Nainital
Uttar Pradesh	Allahabad High Court	Allahabad
West Bengal	Calcutta High Court	Kolkata

FIRST PERSON TO ACHIEVE

Reita Faria 1^st Indian   to get Miss World in 1966

In 1994, Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe title after winning the Miss India crown and became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe crown.

1952

Indrani Rehman

Tamil Nadu

India's debut at the Miss Universe

1959

Fleur Ezekiel

Maharashtra

India's debut in Miss World

Architecture

• First Islamic Mausoleum (tomb) in India: Sultan Ghari, built in 1231 CE for Prince Nasir ud din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish.
• First true dome, Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi, built in 1311 CE, by first Khilji Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din Khilji.
• First true arch, Balban's tomb, Mehrauli Archeological Park, Delhi, built in ca 1287 CE, by Ghiyas ud din Balban of Mamluk dynasty.
• First garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome: Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, built 1562-1571 CE.

 Awards and Titles

• Miss World: Reita Faria in 1965
• Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, first Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States, in 1927 for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
• 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
• Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981
• Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr C.V. Raman in 1954
• Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters: Mrinal Sen^[1]
• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Sivaji Ganesan
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969
• 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"
• Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave, 1958
• Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray
• Ford Supermodel of the World (contest): Bipasha Basu, 1996^{[citation needed] [2]}

Nobel Prize

• Nobel Prize winner: Rabindranath Tagore for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. He was also the first Asian to get the prize.
• Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930.
• Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (India born US citizen)
• Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albania born Indian citizen)
• Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (Indian born US citizen)

Defence

• Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Sir Roy Bucher
• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
• Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
• Indian Chief of Staff: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
• Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
• Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D Katari
• Cosmonaut: Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
• Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw, 1973.

 Exploration

• Person to reach the South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
• Woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
• Woman to reach South Pole: Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu

 Film and TV

• First Film to be exhibited in India 1896
• First silent film to be made in India Raja Harishchandra 1913 Dadasaheb Phalke
• Sound film: Alam Ara directed by Ardeshir Irani^[3], 1931, First Talkie actress:Zubeida
• Oscar winner: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
• Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film: Mother India in 1957
• Music director to win an Oscar and first double Oscar winner-Mr. A. R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009.
• Sound engineer to win an Oscar: Resul Pookutty for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009
• Palme d'Or at 1946 Cannes Film Festival:Neecha Nagar directed by Chetan Anand
• National Film Award for cinema: Shyamchi Aai in 1954
• Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
• Sponsored TV serial: Hum Log, started on July 7, 1984, was also the first soap opera of India, ran for 156 episodes
• Guinness Book of World Records in the category Fewest actors in a narrative film: Yaadein (1964) directed and acted by Sunil Dutt ^[4]
• Actor to enact 10 roles: Kamal Haasan
• 3D film: My Dear Kuttichathan, a Malayalam film, produced in 1984, dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan.
• 70 mm film: Padayottam, a Malayalam film, produced in 1982
• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (officer of the order of arts and letters): Director: Mrinal Sen (1985); Actor:Sivaji Ganesan (1995); Actress: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan(2009)
• Hindi film to be screened at the United Nations: Lage Raho Munna Bhai on 10 November 2006

Governance

• President: Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
• First Women President: Prathiba Patil
• Vice-President: S. Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected
• Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-1950)
• Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
• Non-Congress government: by Janata Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977-1980)
• Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
• Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
• Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 – May 16, 1996
• Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
• Governor-General: Warren Hastings
• Governor General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
• Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
• Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947-1951)

• Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
• Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar (1952-1956)
• Finance Minister of Independent India: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947-1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence : R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on Nov 26, 1947
• First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel^[5]
• First Indian Chief Minister to die in Office: C.N.Annadurai, TamilNadu
• First Indian President to die in Office: Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
• First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
• First Woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• First Woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• First Woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani
• First Female Home Minister: Sabitha Indra Reddy
• Youngest ever Chief Minister: Prafulla Kumar Mohanta, Assam, at the age of 32
• First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.

Science

• Hydroelectric plant: On the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka. Built in 1902.
• Place to get electricity: Kolar Gold Fields, in 1902 (it was the second city in Asia to get electricity after Tokyo, Japan.)
• Man in space: Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 3, 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide.
• Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19, 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
• Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
• Scientific Expedition to Antarctica: 1981
• Nuclear Reactor: CIRUS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• First Genetically Modified Food Product in India : Bt. Egg plant Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacilius thuringiensis)
• Satellite : Aryabhata, launched on April 19, 1975
• Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services : EDUSET
• Successfully indigenous launch vehicle : SLV-3
• Prospective space tourist: Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic
• Cloned Animal : Buffallo, Samrupa

Sport

• Person to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958
• Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959
• Formula One race driver: Narain Karthikeyan
• Formula One team: Force India F1
• A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
• Person to equal world record in Archery: Limba Ram, 1992

 Olympics

• Olympic team medal: Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands.
• Olympic Individual medal (in British India): Silver by Norman Pritchard for 200 metres races 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.)
• Olympic Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki.
• Olympic Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
• Olympic Silver medal: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore for Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athens.
• Olympic Individual gold medal: Abhinav Bindra for 10 m Air Rifle at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing.
• Olympic Bronze medallist in Boxing:Vijender Kumar in Beijing Olympics 2008.
• Olympic Bronze medallist in Wrestling: Sushil Kumar in Beijing Olympics 2008.

 Chess

• Chess Grandmaster : Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
• Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.

 Tennis

• Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
• 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
• 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.
• Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship.
• Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

Cricket

• Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905-1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)
• Cricket test match: Against England at Lord's, June 25, 1932
• First One day Cricket captain: S.Venkataraghavan
• First Test Cricket captain: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
• First Indian to score an ODI century was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup
• First Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, February 24, 2010
• Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds
• Cricketer to score a double century: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
• Cricketer to score a triple century: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
• ODI cricket hat-trick: Chetan Sharma in Reliance World Cup against New Zealand in 1987.
• Test cricket hat-trick: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001
• Cricket World Cup championship win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies.
• Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket: Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
• Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI cricket: Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
• Cricket Twenty20 world cup winner: India in 2007.
• Cricketer to score 90 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar
• First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble
• First batsman to score a double century in a one day International : Sachin Tendulkar

Minorities

• First Sikh Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh
• First Muslim President : Zakir Hussain (1967-1969)
• First Sikh President : Giani Zail Singh
• First Parsi Army Chief: Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw
• First Christian Army Chief: General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
• First Sikh Army Chief: General Joginder Jaswant Singh
• First Parsi Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Aspy Engineer
• First Sikh Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Arjan Singh
• First Muslim Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
• First Parsi Navy Chief: Admiral J L Cursetji
• First Christian Navy Chief: Admiral R L Pereira

 Women

• Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
• Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
• Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892)
• Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
• Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
• Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
• High Court Judge : Anna Chandy
• Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
• Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
• In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19, 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
• Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
• Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205-1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
• Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
• Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
• Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967
• Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947-1949
• Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
• President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
• IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
• Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal , 1984
• Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
• 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
• To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
• State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab : October, 2010

Places

• City to have electricity: Kolkata, CESC started as Kilburn & Co when the company acquired the license to provide electricity to Calcutta city on January 7, 1897.
• District to achieve 100% literacy rate: Ernakulam district, Kerala , 1990
• City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate: Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
• District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
• District to be polio-free: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
• District to achieve tobacco free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
• City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009

Transport

• First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16th April 1853
• First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
• First rapid transit (Metro) rail: Kolkata Metro in 1984
• First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
• First Motorcar in regular use, in 1901, Francis Spring, Chennai
• First Indians to own a motor car: Jamshedji Tata 1901 and Rustom Cama, Parsi Lawyer 1901
• First competitive event Delhi-Bombay trials 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 ^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
• Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
• First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905
• First Motor Taxi Mumbai, 1911
• 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 ^[11]
• First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912 ^[12]
• Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920's and most British officers had cars
• 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.
• 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
• First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector: Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is progressively liberalized
• First fully indegenous passenger car developed in India, Tata Indica launched in 1998
• First expressway: Mumbai-Pune Expressway in 2000
• 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 SSangsyong motors in 2010
• First world-famous automotive product designed and developed in India. Tata Nano launched in 2008
• First aeroplane in India Maharaja of Patiala 1910 ^[13]
• Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on February 18, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carries mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
• 1927: India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends it's 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.
• On February 10 1929, JRD 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.
• 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.
• 1932: JRD 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

• Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
• Newspaper : Hickey's Bengal Gazette in 1779
• Exclusive internet magazine: Bharat Samachar^{[citation needed]}
• Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
• President of the Indian National Congress: W C Bonnerjee, 1885
• Graduate in Medicine: Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty
• Online Video Resume services : C2C Video Resume is the first in india to launch online video resume services where applicants can create their own video resume and send it to employers across the globe. http://www.c2cvideoresume.com/
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FIRST IN THE WORLD

Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) is an Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica.

The first person to reach Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
The first person to reach North Pole	Robert Peary
The first person to reach South Pole	Amundsen
The first religion of the world	Hinduism
The first country to print book	China
The first country to issue paper currency	China
The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services	China
The first President of the U.S.A	George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain	Robert Walpole
The first Governor General of the United Nations	Trigveli (Norway)
The first country to win football World cup	Uruguay
The first country to prepare a constitution	U.S.A
The first Governor General of Pakistan	Mohd. Ali Jinnah

The first country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first European to attack India	Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China	Marco Polo
The first person to fly aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first person to sail round the world	Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon	U.S.A
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space	Russia
The first country to host the modern Olympics	Greece
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)
The first person to land on the moon	Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first shuttle to go in space	Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars	Viking-I
The first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country	Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first man to fly into space	Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon