First in India, Women.
First in India, Women.
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- Delhi's First woman chief secretary: Shailja Chandra
- Delhi’s First Mayor: Aruna Asaf Ali (1958)
- Fastest Asian to swim across the English Channel: Anita Sood
- First Asian woman magistrate appointed in United Kingdom: Kantha Talwar
- First Asian woman mayor in United Kingdom: Lata Patel
- First Indian Woman to go in space: Kalpana Chawla
- First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress: Sarojini Naidu (1925)
- First Indian woman boxer to win an international event : M.C.Merykom
- First Indian woman producer and director: Fatima Begum, who produced and directed Bulbul-e-Parastan in 1926.
- First Indian woman to become Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen (1994)
- First Indian woman to become Miss World: Reita Faria (1966)
- First Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal
- First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event: P.T.Usha
- First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha
- First Indian woman to win a medal in an Olympic event: Karnam Malleshwari (bronze medal, Sydney Olympics)
- First Miss Universe of the new millennium: Lara Dutta
- First Woman President of India : Pratibha Patil
- First all-women crew to fly an air Force Chetak Helicopter: Flight Cadets Cheryl Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF (December, 1995).
- First woman Ambassador from India: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (to USSR from 1947-49)
- First woman Central Minister: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- First woman Chief Minister of an Indian state: Sucheta Kriplani (Uttar Pradesh from 1963-1967)
- First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu: Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1997)
- First woman Governor of an Indian state: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh from 1947-1948)
- First woman IPS Officer of India: Kiran Bedi
- First woman Judge of the Supreme Court: Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1989)
- First woman Minister of an Indian state: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (Uttar Pradesh)
- First woman President of Indian National Congress: Annie Besant (1917)
- First woman President of UN General Assembly: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (1953-54)
- First woman Prime Minister of India: Late Indira Gandhi (1966-1977 and 1980-1984).
- First woman Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly :Kavali Prathibha Bharati
- First woman Speaker of an Indian state: Shano Devi
- First woman chief justice of a High Court: Leila Seth (CJ of Himachal Pradesh, 1991)
- First woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha: Nargis Dutt
- First woman judicial officer: Anna Chandy, who was appointed munsif in the Travancore state in 1937.
- First woman officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to be promoted to the rank of air commodore: 55-year old Padma Bandhopadhyay who was commissioned to the IAF in 1968.
- First woman to head any Wakf board in India : Bader Sayeed (TN Wakf Board)
- First woman winner of the Bharat Ratna: Indira Gandhi (1971)
- Grandma Madonna from India: Asha Bhonsle
- India's first Test-Tube Baby: Kruti Parekh
- India's first commercial pilot: Durba Banerjee (1966, Indian Airlines)
- India's first woman railway driver: Surekha Yadao
- India's first woman tabla maestro : Dr Aban Mistry
- India's officially recognized billionth citizen: Astha (She was born on May 11,2000 at New Delhi).
- World's first woman Airbus pilot: Durba Banerjee
- Youngest Indian to swim across the English Channel: Arati Pradhan
Indian Railways divides its operations into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of 18 zones (including Metro Railway, Kolkata) and 68 Divisions on the Indian Railway System.
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Name of the Railway Zone
Zonal Headquarter
Division
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1
Central Railway
Mumbai
1) Mumbai 2) Nagpur 3) Bhusawal 4) Pune 5) Sholapur
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2
Eastern Railway
Kolkata
1) Howrah-I 2) Howrah-II 3) Sealdah 4) Malda 5) Asansol 6) Chitaranjan 7) Kolkata Metro
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3
East Central Railway
Hajipur
1) Danapur 2) Mugalsarai 3) Dhanbad 4) Sonpur 5) Samastipur
.
4
East Coast Railway
Bhubaneshwar
1) Khurda Road 2) Waltair 3) Sambhalpur
.
5
Northern Railway
Baroda House, New Delhi
1) Delhi-I 2) Delhi-II 3) Ambala 4) Moradabad 5) Lucknow 6) Firozpur
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