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Useful Study Material for All Competitive Exams



First in India
S.No
First in India
Name
1.
President
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2.
Prime-Minister
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
3.
Governor-General of Independent India
Lord Lewis Mountbatten
4.
Indian Governor-General of Independent india
Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
5.
Indian Commander in Chief of Free India
General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
6.
Field Marshall
General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
7.
Speaker of Loksabha
Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15th  May 1952- 27th  February 1956)
8.
Vice-President
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
9.
Home Minister
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
10.
Finance Minister of India
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
11.
Auditor General of India
V. Narahari Rao
12.
Director of CBI
DP Kohli
13.
National Security Adviser
Brijesh Mishra
14.
Governor of RBI
Sir Osborne Smith
15.
Non-Congress Prime-Minister
Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79
16.
British Governor-General of Bengal
Warren-Hastings
17.
Space traveller
S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
18.
Civil Servant
Satendra Nath Tagore
19.
Woman IAS Officer
Anna Ranjan George, 1950
20.
Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming
Mihir Sen
21.
Woman to swim across the English Channel
Arati Saha, 1959
22.
Raman-Magsaysay awardee
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
23.
Nobel prize winner
Rabindra Nath Tagore
24.
Nobel Prize in Physics
C. V. Raman in 1930
25.
President of National Congress
Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
26.
Chairman of Lok Sabha
G. B. Mavlankar
27.
Woman Chief Minister
Sucheta Kriplani
28.
Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha
Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
29.
Chief Election Commissioner
Sukumar Sen
30.
Indian Chairman in International Court
Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
31.
Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
32.
Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission
Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
33.
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
34.
Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B.Raman
35.
Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’
Indira Gandhi
36.
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters
Mrinal Sen
37.
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter
Sivaji Ganeshan
38.
Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee
Lal Bahadur Shastri
39.
Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar
G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
40.
Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar
Ashapurna Devi, 1976
41.
Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner
Amrita Pritam, 1956
42.
Woman Honours Graduate
Kamini Roy
43.
Woman Director General of Police
Kanchan C Bhattacharya
44.
Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart
Dr. P. Venugopal
45.
Woman to receive Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa
46.
Woman Governor
Sarojini Naidu
47.
Licensed Pilot
J R D Tata
48.
Woman Air Pilot
Durba Banerjee
49.
Woman Teacher
Savitribai Phule
50.
Successful heart transplanted person
Devi Ram (1994)
51.
President of National Human Rights Commission
Justice Rangnath Mishra
52.
Hindi Literature Person-Awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar
Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
53.
Indian who won the World Billiard award
Wilson Jans
54.
Indian who won the Grammy award
Pt. Ravi Shankar
55.
Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O
Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
56.
Indian member in British House of Commons
Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
57.
First President of Indian Science Congress
Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
58.
Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times
Sherpa-Augarita
59.
Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’
Ramvilas Sharma
60.
 Indian Managing Director of World Bank
Gautam Kazi
61.
Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’
C. K. Naidu
62.
Actress to win Padma Shri Award
Nargis Dutt, (1958)
63.
Indian players played Davis Cup
M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles)
A. A.Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
64.
Tennis Grandslam title winner
Mahesh Bhupati
65.
Indian player who played the Test Cricket
K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
66.
Scientist elected for Lok Sabha
Dr. Meghnad Saha
67.
Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award
Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
68.
Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar
C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
69.
Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain
V. K. Krishna Menon
70.
Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize
Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
71.
First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament
Lal Mohan Ghose
72.
Woman Graduates
Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, (1883)
73.
Woman Chief Justice of High Court
Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, (1991)
74.
An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period
Ram Prasad Ram
75.
Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council
Sir. S. P. Sinha Morarji Desai
76.
Leanin Peace Prize
Saifuddin Kitchlew
77.
Chairman of Finance Commission
K. C. Niogi
78.
Woman Doctorate of Science
Asima Chatterjee (1944)
79.
Woman IPS
Kiran Bedi
80.
Woman Supreme Court judge
Kumari Fathima Beevi
81.
Indian member of American Congress
Deleep Singh
82.
Editor of Time Magazine
Bobby Ghosh
83.
Director of CBI becoming Governor
Ashwani Kumar
84.
Person to reach the North Pole
Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
85.
Person to reach the South Pole
Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
86.
Nishan-e-Pakistan Award
Morarji Desai, (1990)
87.
Magsaysay Award
Vinoba Bhave,(1958)
88.
Miss World
Reita Faria in 1966
89.
Miss Asia Pacific
Zeenat Aman in 1970
90.
Miss Universe
Sushmita Sen in 1994
91.
Miss Earth
Nicole Faria in 2010
92.
Place to get Electricity
Darjeeling in 1897
93.
Sound film
Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
94.
Colour film
Kisan Kanya (1937) directed by Moti B. Gidvani
95.
Oscar winner
Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
96.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Devika Rani in 1969
97.
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
Sivaji Ganesan
98.
Test-Tube Baby
Durga Agarwal, born 1978
99.
Newspaper
Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760 Tenzing Norgay
100.
First Lady Doctor
Anandibai Joshi
101.
Satellite
Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
102.
Man to climb Mt Everest
Tenzing Norgay
103.
Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen
Phu Dorjee, 1984
104.
Woman to climb Mt Everest
Bachendri Pal
105.
District to achieve 100% literacy rate
Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
106.
Captain in Tests
C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
107.
ODI captain
Ajit Wadekar
108.
Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket
Harbhajan Singh
109.
Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket
Virendra Sehwag
110.
First Marshal of Indian Air Force
Arjan Singh
111.
Individual Medal in Olympic games
KD Jadhav
112.
Grandmaster
Viswanathan Anand
113.
Woman Grandmaster
Koneru Humpy
114.
Who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games
Abhinav Bindra
115.
Who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games
Vijendra Kumar
116.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Srinivasa Ramanujan
117.
Fellow of the Royal Society
Ardaseer Cursetjee
118.
Post Office
Kolkata(1727)
119.
University
Nalanda University


Useful Study Material for all Competitive Exams


1. Present Attorney General = Goolam Essaji Vahanvati

2. Present Solicitor General = Mohan Parasaran
    
3. Present Comptroller and Auditor General =  Shashi Kant Sharma

4. Present Army Chief  = Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh

5. Present Chief of Air staff = Norman Anil Kumar Browne

6. Present Chief of Naval Staff =  Devendra Kumar Joshi

7. Present Chief Election Commissioner  =  V. S. Sampath

8. Present National Human Rights Commission,Chairman =  K.G Balakrishnan

9. Present National Commission for Woman, Chairperson  =  Mamta Sharma

10. Present Chief Information Commissioner = Sathyanand Mishra

11. Present Finance Commission, Chairman = Y.V.Reddy

12. Present ISRO, chairman =  Dr. k. Radhakrishnan

13. Present SEBI chairman  = UKSinha

14. Present Supreme Court ChiefJustice of India  = P. Sathasivam

15. Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)  =  Alok Joshi

16. Chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB) = Syed Asif Ibrahim

17. Chief of CBI  =  Ranjit Sinha

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