India’s First- One-Liner Facts

India’s First – One-Liner Facts (21–40)

21. India’s first Chief Justice was H. J. Kania.


22. India’s first Vice President was Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.


23. India’s first Field Marshal was Sam Manekshaw.


24. India’s first Chief Election Commissioner was Sukumar Sen.


25. India’s first Indian Governor-General was C. Rajagopalachari.


26. India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was General Bipin Rawat.


27. India’s first woman President was Pratibha Patil.


28. India’s first woman Chief Minister was Sucheta Kripalani.


29. India’s first woman Governor was Sarojini Naidu.


30. India’s first woman IPS officer was Kiran Bedi.


31. India’s first woman IAS officer was Anna Rajam Malhotra.


32. India’s first woman Lok Sabha Speaker was Meira Kumar.


33. India’s first woman Supreme Court judge was Justice M. Fathima Beevi.


34. India’s first woman to climb Mount Everest was Bachendri Pal.


35. India’s first woman Olympic medalist was Karnam Malleswari.


36. India’s first Indian to win the Miss World title was Reita Faria.


37. India’s first woman to win the Miss Universe title was Sushmita Sen.


38. India’s first Indian Nobel Laureate in Science was C. V. Raman.


39. India’s first nuclear power station was Tarapur Atomic Power Station.


40. India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier is INS Vikrant.


India’s First – One-Liner Facts (41–60)

41. India’s first metro rail service started in Kolkata.


42. India’s first national park was Jim Corbett National Park.


43. India’s first biosphere reserve was Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.


44. India’s first expressway was the Mumbai–Pune Expressway.


45. India’s first IIT was IIT Kharagpur.


46. India’s first IIM was IIM Calcutta.


47. India’s first AIIMS was AIIMS New Delhi.


48. India’s first open university was Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University.


49. India’s first supercomputer was PARAM 8000.


50. India’s first indigenous supercomputer was PARAM 8000.


51. India’s first remote sensing satellite was IRS-1A.


52. India’s first communication satellite was APPLE.


53. India’s first lunar mission was Chandrayaan-1.


54. India’s first mission to Mars was Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan).


55. India’s first solar mission was Aditya-L1.


56. India’s first private rocket launched successfully was Vikram-S.


57. India’s first indigenous fighter aircraft was HAL Tejas.


58. India’s first aircraft carrier was INS Vikrant (R11).


59. India’s first nuclear test was Pokhran-I (Smiling Buddha) in 1974.


60. India’s first bullet train project is the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor.


India’s First – One-Liner Facts (61–80)

61. India’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site was Ajanta Caves.


62. India’s first World Heritage City was Ahmedabad.


63. India’s first capital after Independence was New Delhi.


64. India’s first multilingual newspaper was Samachar Darpan.


65. India’s first English newspaper was Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.


66. India’s first Indian-owned newspaper was Amrita Bazar Patrika.


67. India’s first radio broadcast began in Mumbai.


68. India’s first television broadcast was launched in New Delhi.


69. India’s first colour television broadcast was during the 1982 Asian Games.


70. India’s first 24-hour news channel was Aaj Tak.


71. India’s first five-star hotel was The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai.


72. India’s first stock exchange was the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).


73. India’s first public sector bank was the State Bank of India (formerly Imperial Bank of India).


74. India’s first life insurance company was the Oriental Life Insurance Company.


75. India’s first nationalised bank was the Imperial Bank of India (later State Bank of India).


76. India’s first digital payment platform developed by NPCI was Unified Payments Interface (UPI).


77. India’s first paper currency was issued by the Bank of Hindostan.


78. India’s first passport was issued under the Indian Passport Act, 1920.


79. India’s first luxury train was the Palace on Wheels.


80. India’s first semi-high-speed train was Gatimaan Express.


India’s First – One-Liner Facts (81–100)

81. India’s first Vande Bharat Express ran between New Delhi and Varanasi.


82. India’s first electric locomotive was WCG-1.


83. India’s first railway line connected Mumbai (Bori Bunder) and Thane.


84. India’s first airport was Juhu Aerodrome, Mumbai.


85. India’s first international airport was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata.


86. India’s first commercial airline was Tata Airlines (later Air India).


87. India’s first indigenous car was Hindustan Ambassador.


88. India’s first indigenous motorcycle was Rajdoot.


89. India’s first indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 was Covaxin.


90. India’s first test-tube baby was Kanupriya (Durga).


91. India’s first heart transplant was successfully performed by Dr. P. Venugopal’s team at AIIMS, New Delhi.


92. India’s first successful kidney transplant was performed at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.


93. India’s first successful hand transplant was performed at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.


94. India’s first Nobel Prize winner was Rabindranath Tagore.


95. India’s first recipient of the Bharat Ratna was C. Rajagopalachari (among the first awardees in 1954).


96. India’s first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra was Major Somnath Sharma.


97. India’s first recipient of the Jnanpith Award was G. Sankara Kurup.


98. India’s first chess Grandmaster was Viswanathan Anand.


99. India’s first individual Olympic gold medalist was Abhinav Bindra.


100. India’s first Oscar-winning Indian was Bhanu Athaiya.