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Question Title Know First In India -II
  • Woman to climb mount Everest ----Bachhendri Pal
  • Woman Judge in Supreme Court---- Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi
  • Woman Chief Justice of a High Court---- Smt. Leela Seth
  • Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) ----Kalpana Chawla
  • The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics---- Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)
  • The First Indian World Chess Champion---- Vishwanathan Anand
  • India's first paperless Newspaper ----The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)
  • India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer---- Sonali Banerjee
  • The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha ----G. M. C. Balyogi
  • The first Vice-President of India to die in harness---- Krishna Kant
  • The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century ----Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England)
  • The first woman Air Vice-Marshal---- P. Bandopadhyaya
  • The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor---- Ms. Kiran Bedi
  • The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident---- Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)

  • The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India ----K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)
  • The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament----Sania Mirza (2003)
  • The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship---- Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)
  • The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD---- Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
  • The highest individual test scorer of India---- Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the first test in Multan against Pakistan)
  • The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times---- Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004)
  • The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S.---- Smt. Roopa Misra
    (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)
  • The first Sikh Prime Minister of India---- Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • The first woman Director General of Police of a State---- Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)
  • The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief ----MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)
  • The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army---- Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)
  • The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming---- Bula Chaudhury
  • The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal---- Padma Bandhopadhyay

     

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