Women in Governance
1) Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant.
2) Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966.
3) President: Pratibha Patil, 2007.
4) IPS Officer Kiran Bedi.
5) Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.
6) Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
7) Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani Uttar Pradesh.
8) Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49).
9) Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh.
10) Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar.
11) Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
12) Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya.
13) Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee.
Defence (in the Republic of India)
1) Defence Minister of India: Baldev Singh.
2) Commander-in-Chief of Free India: Kodandera Madappa Cariappa.
3) Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa.
4) Chief of Air Staff: Subroto Mukerjee.
5) Chief of Army Staff: Rajendrasinhji Jadeja.
6) Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Subroto Mukerjee.
7) Chief of Naval Staff: Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey.
8) First Indian (pre-Independence) flying ace: Indra Lal Roy.
9) India's first military helicopter pilot: Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar.
10) Cosmonaut: Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984.
11) Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw (S.H.F Manekshaw).
12) First female Jawan in the Army: Sapper Shanti Tigga.
13) First Param Vir Chakra winner: Major Som Nath Sharma.
Science Questions
1) The first president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress: Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1914.
2) Hydroelectric plant: Sidrapong near Darjeeling.
3) Man in space: Rakesh Sharma aboard Soyuz T-11.
4) Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87. She was a United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
5) Scientific Expedition to Antarctica: 1981.
6) Nuclear Reactor: Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra
7) First Genetically modified food product in India: Bt. Egg plant Hybrid.
8) Satellite: Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
9) Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services: EDUSAT.
10) Successfully indigenous launch vehicle: SLV-3.
11) Prospective space tourist: Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic.
12) Cloned animal: Bhass, sampura.
13) 1902 – First wireless telegraph station established between Sagar Islands and Sandheads.
14) 1907 – First central battery of telephones introduced in Kanpur.
15) 1913–1914 – First automatic exchange installed in Shimla.
16) 1933 – Radiotelephone system inaugurated between the UK and India.
17) 1953 – 12 channel carrier system introduced.
18) 1976 – First digital microwave junction introduced.
19) 1979 – First optical fibre system for local junction commissioned at Pune.
20) 1980 – First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at Secunderabad, Telangana.
21) 1984 – First Underground Metro Railways System at Calcutta.
22) 1984 – C-DOT established for indigenous development and production of digital exchanges.
23) 1990 – First technology park in India, Technopark, Trivandrum was launched.
24) 1995 – First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis.
25) 2014 – First country to enter Mars' orbit on their first attempt with successful launch of Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan).
26) 2015– First 3D printed humanoid robot in India at A-SET Training & Research Institutes – Manav (robot).
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