First in India, Women. First in India, Women.


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
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Chauri Chaura incident

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ചൗരി ചൗരാ സംഭവം 1922 ഫെബ്രുവരി 5-ന് ഉത്തർ‌പ്രദേശിലെ ചൗരി ചൗരായിൽ വച്ച് നിസ്സഹകരണ പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി നടന്ന ഒരു ജാഥയിൽ പങ്കെടുത്ത ആളുകൾക്കെതിരെ പൊലീസ് വെടിവെക്കുകയും തുടർന്ന് ജനക്കൂട്ടം പോലീസ് സ്റ്റേഷൻ ആക്രമിച്ച് തീയിടുകയും ചെയ്ത സംഭവമാണ് ചൗരി ചൗരാ സംഭവം എന്ന പേരിൽ ഇന്ത്യൻ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ അറിയപ്പെടുന്നത്. ഈ സംഭവത്തോടെ നിസ്സഹകരണ പ്രസ്ഥാനം നിർത്തിവെക്കുന്നതായി ഗാന്...

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List of Crops and hybrids

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വിളകൾ സങ്കരയിനങ്ങൾ .
അടക്ക മംഗള .
എള്ള് തിലതാര, സോമ, സര്യ, തിലക്, തിലോത്തമ .
കശുവണ്ടി പരിയങ്ക, അമൃത, മദുല, ധാരശ്രീ .
കൈതച്ചക്ക മൗറീഷ്യസ്, കയൂ .
ഗോതമ്പ് ഗിരിജ, സോണാലിക, കല്ല്യാൺസോണ .
ചീര അരുൺ, മോഹിനി .
തക്കാളി അനഘ, ശക്തി, മക്തി .
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പാവൽ പരിയ, പരീതി, പരിയങ്ക .
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Questions about Sree Narayana Guru : Kerala Renaissance

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Sree Narayana Guru (ca. 1854 – 20 September 1928), was a social reformer of India. He was born into a family of the Ezhava caste in an era when people from such communities, which were regarded as Avarna, faced much injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala. He led a reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana_Guru .

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