First in India - MISC: General Awareness

First in India - MISC
First Wax statue of a Living Indian	Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India	Fa-hien
First Exclusive internet magazine	Bharat Samachar
First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe	Indrani Rehman
First President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Bannerjee, 1885
First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
First Judge in International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagender Singh
First Graduate in Medicine	Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty
India's First University	Nalanda University
India's First Open University	Andhra Pradesh Open University
India's First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes	P.V.Narasimha Rao
First Indian to reach Antarctica	Lt. Ram Charan
First British to Visit India	Hawkins
First Test tube baby of India	Indira (Baby Harsha)
First Post Office Opened in India	Kolkata(1727)
Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen, 1958.
Woman to swim across the English Channel	Arati Saha, 1959
Formula One racer	Narain Karthikeyan
Formula One team	Force India F1
A1 GP race victory	Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
Person to equal world record in Archery	Limba Ram, 1992
Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert	Sucheta Kadethankar
first Indian to win a Gold Medal for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup	Shiva Keshavan (2011)
OLYMPICS
first Indian to win back to back Olympic medals	Sushil Kumar (wrestler) is the
First Olympic team medal	Gold in Field Hockey, Amsterdam,
First Individual medal (in British India)	Two Silver medals by Norman Pritchard
First Individual medal in Olympics	Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling
First Medal in Tennis(Olympics)	Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
First Individual medal by a woman(Olympics)	Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class.
First Individual Gold medal(Olympics)	Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event.
First Individual Silver medal (Independent India)(Olympics)	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event.
First Medal in Boxing(Olympics)	Vijender Kumar
First Medal in Badminton(Olympics)	Saina Nehwal, winning a Bronze in the London Olympics 2012
First Medal in wrestling(Olympics)	Sushil Kumar, winning a Bronze in the Beijing Olympics 2008
CHESS
First Chess Grandmaster	Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
First female Chess Grandmaster	Koneru Humpy
TENNIS
Grand Slam title	Mahesh Bhupathi(partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki)
Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event	Nirupama Vaidyanathan
Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event	Sania Mirza.
Woman to win a Grand Slam title	Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi).
Grand Slam junior title	Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category.
Grand Slam junior title by a woman	Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova).
CRICKET
First Cricket Club in India	Calcutta cricket club(1792)
First test match played in India	India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta)
First Cricket Stadium	Eden Gardens in Kolkata
First Test Victory	Against England At Madras
Cricket tournament	The Bombay Triangular,  later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
Test match	Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932
Captain in Tests	C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.
ODI captain	Ajit Wadekar.
Cricketer to score a century in a Test match	Lala Amarnath, 118 against England
First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup	Sourav Ganguly 183 runs
Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match	Polly Umrigar, 223
Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match	Virender Sehwag, 309
Indian to score an ODI century	Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe
Indian to score an ODI double century	Sachin Tendulkar
Hat-trick in an ODI	Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987.
First World Cup Runners up captain	Sourav Ganguly (2003)
World Cup	1983 World Cup
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests	Sunil Gavaskar
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs	Sachin Tendulkar
Winner of the first T20 World Cup	India (in 2007).
Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined	Sachin Tendulkar
First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings	Anil Kumble (against Pakistan)
First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket	Sachin Tendulkar
First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket	Mithali Raj (214*)
Six sixes in an Over	Yuvraj Singh
First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground	India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup)
District to achieve 100% literacy rate	Ernakulam district, Kerala
City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate	Kottayam, Kerala
District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate	Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to be polio-free	Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to achieve tobacco free	Kottayam district, Kerala
District to become India's 'total electrified district'	Palakkad, Kerala
City to have an e-court	Ahmedabad
First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways	Kolkata Metro
First Passenger Train	between Mumbai and Thane
First suburban railway line	Mumbai Suburban Railway
First Motorcar	Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
First Indians to own a motor car	Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama
First competitive event	Delhi - Bombay trials in 1905
First manufacture of motor cars	Hindustan Motors
First fully indegenous passenger car developed in India	Tata Indica
First expressway	Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000,
First airplane in India	Maharaja of Patiala, 1910
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukherjee
First Post Office Opened in India	Kolkata(1727)
Wax statue of a living Indian	Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939.
Newspaper	Hicky's Bengal Gazette started in 1780.
Exclusive Internet magazine	Bharat Samachar
Miss India to participate in Miss Universe	Indrani Rahman
The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation	Shripad Vaidya[
First Hydroelectric Plant	On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902
First City to have electricity	Banglore, in 1906
First Man in Space	Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984.
First Scientific Expedition to Antarctica	1981
First Nuclear Reactor	Tarapur, Maharashtra
First Genetically Modified Food Product in India	Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid
First Satellite	Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975
First Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services	EDUSET
First Successfully Indigenous Launch Vehicle	SLV-3