First Indian in Various Field – Record List - 1
Awards and Honours:
- First Indian to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry –
Ramakrishnan Venkatraman (2009)
- First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Literature –
Rabindranath Tagore (1913). He was also the First Asian to get the Prize.
- First Indian woman to win a Grammy – Tanvi Sha
(2010), for the Spanish version of the lyric “Jai Ho” of the Oscar winning film
Slum Dog Millionaire.
- First Indian to win two Grammies in a year –
A.R.Rahman (2010), for his foot taping number Jai Ho and outstanding sound
track for the film Slum Dog Millionaire.
- First Indian to win Booker Prize – Arundhati Rai
(1997), for the God of Small Things.
- First Indians to win Bartha Ratna –
Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, C.Rajagopalachari and Dr.C.V.Raman (1954).
- First woman from India to win Nobel Prize – Mother Theresa
(1979), peace prize.
- First Indian woman featured in Postal Stamp – Meera
Bhai (1952).
- First Indian to be the Miss-World – Reita Faria
(1966 Nov 17).
First in Transport and Vehicles:
- First Indian Automobiles Company to produce one lakh
commercial vehicle in a financial year – Tata Motors (2011 Mar)
- First seaplane service in India – Operated jointly
by the Andaman Nicobar Administration and the Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd
(2010).
- First marina in India – Kochin (2010).
- First state in India to start Airlines of its own –
Uttar Prades (1995).
- First Indian woman commercial pilot Durba Banerjee,
Indian Airlines (1966).
- First International flight in by Air India – Bombay
to London by the Aircraft Malabar Princess (1948).
- First Indian to become a Pilot – J.R.D.Tata, Tata
Airlines (1929).
- First Indian automobiles company to cross the
production mark of one crore cars – Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (2011).
- First Indian electric car – Reva, a battery operated
car developed by Chetan Maine (1997).
- First car factory in India – the plant established
in Mumbai by General Motors to assemble cars and trucks using imported parts
(1928).
- First High
Way in India – Grant Trunk Road (1540).
- First car registered in India – De Dion Bouton,
imported from France by the Maharaj of Patiala (1892).
- First Maruti car owner – Harpal Singh, Delhi (1984).
- First Indian train fueled by biodiesel – Delhi to
Amritsar Express. It used a fuel mixed with 5% biodiesel (2002).
- First interstate metro railway in India – Delhi
Metro Railway, it extent to UP through the Yemuna Bank-Noida reach (2009).
- First super-fast passenger train in India –
Howrah New Delhi Rajdhani Express
(1969).
- First green railway station in India – Manwal
Railway Station on the Jammu to Udhampur route (2011).
- First Indian Passenger Train to Bangladesh – Maitree
Express from Kolkata to Dhaka (2008).
- First private port in India – Pipavav Port in
Gujarat (1996).
- First railway station in India - Boribunder, Now it is known as Mumbai CST
(1853).
- First hill railway in India – Darjeeling Himalayan Railway(DHR). The train
in this route are powered by steam engines (1881).
- First Internationall Container Transshipment Terminal
in India – Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, Kochi
(2011).
- First national waterways in India – NW1,
Allahabad-Haldia stretch of Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hoogly river systems (1986)
First in Adventure:
- First Indian Naval ship to circumnavigate the globe
– INS Tarangini. It called at thirty seven ports in eighteen countries covering
34,923 nautical miles (from Jan 23 2003 to April 25 2004).
- First Indian to circumnavigate the globe solo no a
sailboat – Commander Dilip Donde, a Naval officer (2009 Aug to 2010 May).
- First Indian woman to ski to the SouthPole – Reena
Kaushal. She was part of the eight woman commonwealth team that crossed a 900 kilometers
Antarctic ice trek to reach South Pole
to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of commonwealth.
- First Indian female to summit Mount Everest – Bachendiri
Paal. She was fifth woman in the world to achieve this (1984 May 23).
- First Indian Woman to swim across seven seas of the
world – Bulaa Choudhary. She was the first Indian woman to cross English
Channel twice (2004).
- First Indian woman to reach Antarctica – Mehar Moos
(1976).
First Indian in Science and Technology:
- First cloned
Buffalo calf in India – Sam Rupa (2009).
- First Indian Research station in the Arctic –
Himadri. It will carry out research in present fields of Arctic Science with
special importance on climate change (2008).
- First Indian in Space – Rakesh Sharma, aboard
Salyut7 (1984).
- First Indian (origin) woman in Space – Kalpana
Chawla aboard space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87. She was naturalized US
citizen and representing the US during the event (19197 Nov 19).
Medicine:
- First successful Heart transplant in India – by Dr.P.Venugopal,
AIIMs, New Delhi, on Dev Ram a mechanic (1994 Aug).
- First Indian Test Tube baby – Harsha, at KEM
hospital, Mumbai, Indhira Induja was the
Doctor (1986).
First Indian in Literature and Media:
- First Government organization in India to be on the
social networking site Twitter – Department of Posts (2010 May).
- First talking newspaper in India (world) – A special
issue of The Hindu, issued in Mumbai to introduce the Vento, Volkswagen’
premium entry level sedan car in India (2010).
- First golden stamp replicas issued by the Postal
Department – ‘The Pride of India Collection’ a set of 25 classic stamp replicas
struck on pure Swiss silver and layered with 24 carat gold (2010).
- First Indian City to introduce the mobile phone
service – Kolkata (1995 July).
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