First in World

First in World

1. Chairman of Peoples Republic of China - Mao-Tse-Tung
2. President of the Chinese Republic - Dr. Sun Yat Sen
3. President of U.S.A - George Washington 
4. Chinese Traveller to India - Fahein 

5. Foreign Invader to India - Alexander the Great

6. Person to reach South Pole - Amundsen 
7. Person to reach North Pole - Robert Pearey 
8. Person in Space - Yuri Gagarin 
9. Person on Moon - Neil Armstrong 
10. Lady to climb Mount Everest - Junko Taibei 
11. European to visit China - Marco Polo 
12. Place where atom bomb was dropped - Hiroshima 
13. Man to walk in Space - Alexei Leonov 
14. Woman cosmonaut in Space - Valentina Tereshkova 
15. Woman Prime Minister of a country - Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike 
16. Woman President of a country - Maria Estela Peron 
17. Woman to Command a Space Mission - Colonel Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)  
18. The first residents of International Space station - Bill Shepherd (USA),Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) 
19. The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest - Erik Weihenmayer(USA, May 25, 2001)  
20. The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International lrine - Zubeida Khan 
21. The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date - Jerry Ross (U.S.A.) 
22. The first South African to become the second space tourist - Mark Shuttleworth 

23. The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea - Ms. Chang Sang

24. The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess - Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) 
25. The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft - Felix Baumgartner (July 2003) 
26. China's first man in space - Yang Liwei  
27. The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize - Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)
28. The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record - Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004) 
29. The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times - Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)
30. The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming - Bula Chaudhury (India)
31. The first aircraft pilot to round the entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in 67 hours - Steve Fossett (March 2005)
32. The first woman to be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan - Habiba Sorabhi 
33. The first woman of the world to swim across five continents - Bula Chaudhury (India) (April 2005)
34. The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meter mark in pole vault - Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russian, July 2005)

35. The first Hindu Chief Justice of Pakistani Supreme Court Justice - Rana Bhagwan Das

Took over on Sept. 2, 2005 as Acting Chief Justice

First in India

First in India

  1. British Governor General of Bengal - Warren Hastings
  2. Governor General of Independent India - Lord Mountbatten
  3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General - Roy Bucher
  4. Cosmonaut - Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
  5. Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India - Babar
  6. Field Marshal - S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
  7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union - C. Rajagopalachari
  8. Indian I.C.S. Officer - Satyendra Nath Tagore
  9. Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council - Sri S.P. Sinha
10. Indian to swim across English Channel - Mihir Sen
11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel - Miss Arati Saha
12. Man to climb Mount Everest - Tenzing Norgay
13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen - Phu Dorjee
14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice - Nwang Gombu
15. Nobel Prize winner - Rabindra Nath Tagore
16. President of Indian National Congress - W. C. Banerjee
17. President of Indian Republic -  Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18. Talkie Film - Alam Ara (1931)
19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) - Indira

20. Viceroy of India - Lord Canning

21. Woman Minister of Indian Union - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
22. Woman Chief Minister of State - Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani
23. Woman Governor - Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
24. Woman President of Indian National Congress - Dr. Annie Besant
25. Woman Prime Minister - Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly - Mrs. Shanno Devi
27. Prime Minister of India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28. Muslim President of Indian Union - Dr. Zakir Hussain
29. Speaker of Lok Sabha - G. V. Mavlankar
30. Woman to climb mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal
31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court - Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi
32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court - Smt. Leela Seth
33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) - Kalpana Chawla
34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics -  Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)
35. The First Indian World Chess Champion - Vishwanathan Anand
36. India's first paperless Newspaper - The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)
37. India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer - Sonali Banerjee
38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha - G. M. C. Balyogi
39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness - Krishna Kant
40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century - Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England)
41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya
42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor - Ms. Kiran Bedi
43. 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)
44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India- K.J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)
45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament - Sania Mirza (2003)
46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship - Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)
47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD - Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
48. The highest individual test scorer of India - Virendra Sehwag ( 319 runs against Sauth africa)
49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times-  Rahul Dravid
50. The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. - Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)
51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India - Dr. Manmohan Singh
52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State - Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)
53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief - MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)
54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army - Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)
55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming - Bula Chaudhury
56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal - Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay
57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years - Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)
58. India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title - Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad)
59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon - Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)
60. The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. -  Budhia (May 2006)
61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro - (Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran
62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole - Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006)
63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship - Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006)
64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title - Preeti Desai (2006)
65. The first woman President of the Republic of India - Pratibha Patil

Who, Whome, What, Which…. ?

Q. Name the  first Indian women who has been named as full professor at Harward University.

Answer: Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath, Indian-origin associate professor at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, has been appointed a full professor. She is first Indian women to do so and only third women in the whole world.

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Q. Name the Hindu right wing organisation against whom the charges have been filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the 2009 Diwali-eve blast that killed two people in Goa’s Margao town.

Answer: Sanatan Sanstha

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Q. Which Indian actress / model has created controversy recently by sporting a Ek Onkar (God is one) tattoo on her nape. The tatto has been opposed by Sikh community leaders in India.

Answer: Mandira Bedi

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Q. Name the volcano whose dense cloud of drifting volcanic ash is causing many European airports to shut down for days and affecting air traffic worldwide.

Answer: Eyjafjallajokul

The April 14 eruption at Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokul volcano forced most countries in northern Europe to shut their airspace between April 15-20. More than 100,000 flights and an estimated 10 million travelers worldwide were affected costing airlines more than $2 billion.

It erupted in April for the first time in nearly two centuries. During its last eruption, starting in 1821, its emissions rumbled on for two years.

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Q. Who was India’s most wanted man suspected of having organized the 1993 Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes’ Most Wanted Fugitives list topped?

Answer: Dawood Ibrahim

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Q. Name the countries which agree on a nuclear fuel swap aimed at easing concerns from the West that Iran might build a bomb.

Answer: Brazil, Iran and Turkey

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Q. Who is the new director of barc?

Answer: RK sinha appointed as new director of barc

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May 15, 2010:

Q. Who was the 11th Vice-President of India who passed away recently on May 15, 2010?

Answer: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 87-year-old Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was died suffering from lung and chest infection

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May 14, 2010:

Q. Popular South Indian actress who is willing to join DMK Party?

Answer: Khushboo

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Q. Who Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2010 Award Finalist for Northern California ?

Answer: Roamware CEO Bobby Srinivasan, Bobby Srinivasan was selected as a finalist for his extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities from more than one hundred nominations by a panel of independent judges.  Award recipients will be announced at a special gala event on June 12, 2010 at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel.

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May 13, 2010:

Q. Who is the latest actress who refused to work with Shiney Ahuja the actor allegedly accused for raping his maid.

Answer: Vaishali Desai in film Shaunya a horror flick produced by Puja Bedi. Vaishali Desai is a former Miss India and has made her debut in Kal Kissne Dekha opposite Jackie Bhagnani.

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WHO & WHAT OR Which …?

Q. Which Team won the Europa League Title?

Answer: Atletico Madrid won the inaugural final of the Europa League on defeating Fulham at Hamburg. Diego Forlan struck an extra-time goal and secured a 2-1 win.

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Q. Which Company has started up a BPO in Srinagar starting reverse migration of Kashmir?

Answer: Essar Group-run Aegis has started a BPO in Srinagar

Q. Name the company from whose premises toxic leak happened in one of the worst industrial disasters called Bhopal gas tragedy.

Answer: Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) (now defunct)

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Q. Who received 27th Niwano Peace Foundation award on May 13, 2010?

Answer: Ms. Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) India who has received a medal and twenty million yen.

The Niwano Peace Foundation Japan established the Niwano Peace Prize to honor and encourage individuals and organizations that have contributed significantly to inter-religious cooperation, thereby furthering the cause of world peace, and to make their achievements known as widely as possible.

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Q. Name the president of MCI – Medical Council of India who is facing graft charges and has to resign.

Answer: Ketan Desai

Ketan Desai was arrested on April 22 by CBI for allegedly accepting bribe to give permission to a Punjab medical college to recruit a fresh batch of students without having requisite infrastructure. MCI controlls Medical Education in India.

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Q. Who was the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India recently?

Answer: Ajmal Kasab of Pakistan

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Q. Who is the IAS Topper in UPSC Civil Services Exam 2010 which has been released by UPSC recently?

Answer: SHAH FAESAL

Dr Faesal 26-year-old MBBS graduate, who topped the list of 875 successful candidates, said that he was not only the first Kashmiri to achieve the milestone but also the second Muslim in the history to achieve this feat.

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Q. Who is the Union minister who has offered to resign for his controversial remarks against the home ministry for allegedly stalling some Chinese imports?

Answer: Jairam Ramesh

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Q. What is the real name of character artiste ‘Sambha‘ from super hit film of all times ‘Sholey‘ who passed away recently.

Answer: Mac Mohan

Apart from Sholey Mac Mohan also acted in Amitabh starrers like “Zanjeer”, “Don”, “Shaan” and “Satte Pe Satta”. He was suffering from lung cancer.

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WHO & WHAT ? - Telangana issue, Darul Uloom, Khap panchayats, IPL Commissionaire, British Prime Minister, new Chief Justice of India

Q. What is the name of panel that is being setup to look into Telangana issue?

Answer: Srikrishna committee

Srikrishna committee or panel has been set up to study the demand for separate Telangana

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Q. Who has issued fatwa – saying that it is illegal for women to work?

Answer: Darul Uloom Deoband

Darul Uloom Deoband the Sunni Muslim seminary had this fatwa issued by a bench of three clerics

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Q. What is Khap Panchayat?

Answer: Khap panchayats or caste councils are the local Panchayat’s in Haryana villages which have come into lime light due to their diktats (or fatwa) prohibiting same ‘gotra’ marriages’.

They are run as a separate courts or adalats where judgement are given by Khap Panchs. The Hindu Marriage Act however does not prohibits same caste marriage. Most political parties support Khap Panchayats.

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Q. Who is the new IPL Commissionaire?

Answer: Chirayu Amin

Chirayu Amin has joined as the new IPL commissioner after the removal of lalit Modi. Mr. Amin is Baroda Cricket Association president and he also heads a company known as Alembic Chemicals.

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Q. Who is the British Prime Minister after Gordon Brown?

Answer: David Cameron

The 43-year-old Cameron becomes Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years.  The last was Lord Liverpool at 42.

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2. Who is the new Chief Justice of India?

Answer: Justice S H Kapadia,

Justice S H Kapadia (62-year-old), the most senior judge of the Supreme Court, was on Wednesday sworn in as the 38th Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Patil

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