First in India and World

Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship	I.N.S. Vikrant
American president to visit India	Dwight David Eisenhower
Asian Games organized in India	Delhi (in 1951)
atomic Submarine of India	I.N.S. Chakra
British Prime Minister to visit India	Harold Mc Millon
British to visit India	Hawkins
Chief justice of India	Justice Hiralal J. Kania
Chief of Air Staff of India	Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
Chief of Army Staff of India	General M.Rajendra Singh
Chief of Naval Staff of India	Vice- Admiral R.D Katari
Chinese pilgrim to visit India	Fa-hien
Commander-in-chief of free India	General K.M. Cariappa
Commander-in-chief of Free India	General Roy Bucher
Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha	G.M.C. Balyogi
Deputy prime Minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
E-business news paper of India	Financial Express
Education Minister of Independent India	Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Election Commissioner of India	Sukumar Sen
Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India	Babar
field Marshal of India	General S.F.J. Manekshaw
Foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna	Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Governor General of Bengal	Warren Hastings (1774-85)
Governor General of Ind. India	Lord Mountbattten
Governor General of India	Lord William Bentic (1833-35)
Governor of Bengal	Lord Clive (1757-60)
Home Minister of Independent India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Indian air Chief of India	Air Marshal S. Mukherjee
Indian author to get Anderson Award	Ruskin Bond
Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space )	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
Cricketer to make double centuries 5 times	Rahul Dravid
WOman to win in a Wimbledon tourament	Sania Mirza
Governor general of Independent India	C.Rajgopalachari (21 June,1948
I.C.S. Officer	Satyaendra Nath Tagore
Woman to win a medal in World Athletics	Anju Bobby George
Missile	Prithvi
Woman to win the Miss Great Britain Title	Preeti Desai
Pilot	J.R.D. Tata (1929)
Prime Minister to loose an election	Indira Ghandi
Prime Minister to resign from office	Morarji Desai
Recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics	Dr. Amartya Sen
Scientist to get Nobel Prize	C.V. Raman (Physics)
Submarine	I.N.S. Cauveri
United Nations Civilian Police Advisor	Ms. Kiran bedi
To climb Mount Averest	Tenzing Norgay
To fly the U.S. space shuttle	Dr. Kalpana Chawla
To get Bhart Ratna Award	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
To get Jnanpeeth Award	G. Shankar Kurup
To get Paramvir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
To make printing press popular in India	James Hicky
To pass ICS	Surendra Nath Benerjee
To reach Antarctica	Lt. Ram Charan (1960)
To reach the south Pole	Col. I.K.Bajaj
To ski to the north pole	Ajeet Bajaj
To Swim Across English Channel in India	Mihir Sen
To win Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958)
To win Stalin Award	Saiffudin Kichlu
To win world Billiards Trophy	Wilson Jones
Weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics	Karnam Malleshwari
Woman Airline Pilot	Durga Banerjee
Woman Air-vice-Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
Woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD	Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
Woman cricketer to score adouble century	Mithali Raj
Woman I.P.S. Officer	Kiran Bedi
Woman Merchant Navy Officer	Sonali Banerjee
Woman president of Indian National Congress	Sarojini Naidu (1925)
Woman Speaker of State Assembly in India	Mrs. Shanno Devi
Woman to become Miss Universe	Sushmita Sen
Woman to become Miss World	Miss Reita Faria
Woman to get Ashok Chakra	Nirja Mishra
Woman to get Bharat Ratna	Smt. Indira Gandhi
Woman to get Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
Woman to get the Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa (1979)
Woman to go into space	Kalpana Chawla
Woman Lt. General in the Indian Army	Puneeta Arora
Woman to swim across the English Channel	Miss Arati Saha (now Mrs. Arati Gupta)
Woman to win a Gold Medal in Asian Games	Kamaljeet Sandhu
Woman to win the Booker Prize	Arundhati Roy
woman to win WTA Title	Sania Mirza
Woman yo cross seven important seas by swimming	Bula Chaudhury
World Chess Champion	Vishwanathan Anand
Large-scale Atomic Reactor of India	Apsara (1956)
Medium range Missile of India	Agni
Minister to resign form Union Cabinet of India	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)
Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayab Ji
Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr. Zakir Hussain
Nuclear Centre of India	Tarapur
Paperless Newspaper of India	The News Today
President of Constituent Assembly of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
President of India to die in office	Dr. Zakir Hussain
President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
to win Nobel prize in Physics	Subrahmanium Chandrasekhar
Sikh Prime Minister of India	Dr. Manmohan Singh
Speaker of lok Sabha	G.V. Mavlankar (1952-57)
To win an individual Olympic gold for India.	Abhinav Binra
Talkie Film in India	Alam Ara
Test Tube Baby of India	Indira (Baby Harsha)
University of India	Nalanda University
Vice-President of India to die in harness	Krishna Kant
Woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India	Smt. Leela Seth
Woman Judge in Supreme Court in India	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi

Women Chief Ministers of Various States

Name	State	Party	Term
Sushma Swaraj	Delhi	BJP	13 Oct to 3 December 1998
Uma Bharti	MP	BJP	2003-2004
Vasundhara Raje	Rajasthan	BJP	2003-2008
Mamata Banerjee	W.Bengal	Trinamool Congress	2011 – present
Sheila Dikshit	Delhi	Congress	1998-present
Rabri Devi	Bihar	RJD	1997—1999, 1999—2000, 2000—2005
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal	Punjab	Congress	April 1996 to February 1997
Mayawati	Uttar Pradesh	BSP	13 June 1995 – 18 October 1995, 21 March 1997 – 21 September 1997, 2002–2003, 2007–2012
J Jayalalithaa	Tamilnadu	AIADMK	1991–1996, 14 May 2001 – 16 September 2001, 2002–2006, 2011 – present
Janaki Ramachandran	Tamilnadu	AIADMK	7 to 30 January 1988
Syeda Anwara Taimur	Assam	Congress	December 1980 to June 1981
Shashikala Kakodkar	GOA	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	12 August 1973 to 27 April 1979
Nandini Satpathy	Orissa	Congress	June 1972 to December 1976 & August 1973 to April 1979
Sucheta Kriplani	Uttar Pradesh	Congress	October 1963 to May 1967

Facts about female chief ministers of Indian States

• Sucheta Kriplani is the first woman to be chief minister of any state in India.
• Syeda Anwara Taimur is the first muslim female who became the chief minister.
• J. Jayalalithaa is a film actress who became CM.
• Mayawait is the first dalit CM of any Indian state.
• Mamata Banerjee became CM after uprooting 34 year old Left front rule in the state.
• Vasundhara Raje belongs to royal Maratha Scindia family.
• Sheila Dikshit is the only woman chief minister to lead a government for a third consecutive term.
• Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is the first and only Female CM of Punjab till date.
• Janaki Ramachandran was CM only for 23 days.
• Shashikala Kakodkar is the first female CM of GOA.

Continents Lowest point

Continents	Lowest Point
Asia	Dead Sea
South America	Laguna del Carbón
North America	Death Valley
Africa	Lake Assal
Europe	Caspian Sea
Antarctica	Deep Lake
Australia	Lake Eyre

Continents and Highest Points

Continents	Highest Point
Africa	Mount Kilimanjaro
Antarctica	Vinson Massif
Asia	Mount Everest
Australia	Puncak Jaya
Europe	Mount Elbrus
North America	Mount McKinley
South America	Aconcagua

List of International Currencies with Currency Codes

Country	Currency	ISO-4217 Code
A
Afghanistan	Afghan afghani	AFN
Albania	Albanian lek	ALL
Algeria	Algerian dinar	DZD
Andorra	European euro	EUR
Angola	Angolan kwanza	AOA
Anguilla	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Antigua and Barbuda	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Argentina	Argentine peso	ARS
Armenia	Armenian dram	AMD
Aruba	Aruban florin	AWG
Australia	Australian dollar	AUD
Austria	European euro	EUR
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani manat	AZN
B
Bahamas	Bahamian dollar	BSD
Bahrain	Bahraini dinar	BHD
Bangladesh	Bangladeshi taka	BDT
Barbados	Barbadian dollar	BBD
Belarus	Belarusian ruble	BYR
Belgium	European euro	EUR
Belize	Belize dollar	BZD
Benin	West African CFA franc	XOF
Bhutan	Bhutanese ngultrum	BTN
Bolivia	Bolivian boliviano	BOB
Bosnia-Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina konvertibilna marka	BAM
Botswana	Botswana pula	BWP
Brazil	Brazilian real	BRL
Brunei	Brunei dollar	BND
Bulgaria	Bulgarian lev	BGN
Burkina Faso	West African CFA franc	XOF
Burundi	Burundi franc	BIF
C
Cambodia	Cambodian riel	KHR
Cameroon	Central African CFA franc	XAF
Canada	Canadian dollar	CAD
Cape Verde	Cape Verdean escudo	CVE
Cayman Islands	Cayman Islands dollar	KYD
Central African Republic	Central African CFA franc	XAF
Chad	Central African CFA franc	XAF
Chile	Chilean peso	CLP
China	Chinese renminbi	CNY
Colombia	Colombian peso	COP
Comoros	Comorian franc	KMF
Congo	Central African CFA franc	XAF
Congo, Democratic Republic	Congolese franc	CDF
Costa Rica	Costa Rican colon	CRC
Côte d'Ivoire	West African CFA franc	XOF
Croatia	Croatian kuna	HRK
Cuba	Cuban peso	CUC
Cyprus	European euro	EUR
Czech Republic	Czech koruna	CZK
D
Denmark	Danish krone	DKK
Djibouti	Djiboutian franc	DJF
Dominica	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Dominican Republic	Dominican peso	DOP
E
East Timor	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Ecuador	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Egypt	Egyptian pound	EGP
El Salvador	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Equatorial Guinea	Central African CFA franc	GQE
Eritrea	Eritrean nakfa	ERN
Estonia	Estonian kroon	EEK
Ethiopia	Ethiopian birr	ETB
F
Falkland Islands	Falkland Islands pound	FKP
Fiji	Fijian dollar	FJD
Finland	European euro	EUR
France	European euro	EUR
French Polynesia	CFP franc	XPF
G
Gabon	Central African CFA franc	XAF
Gambia	Gambian dalasi	GMD
Georgia	Georgian lari	GEL
Germany	European euro	EUR
Ghana	Ghanaian cedi	GHS
Gibraltar	Gibraltar pound	GIP
Greece	European euro	EUR
Grenada	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Guatemala	Guatemalan quetzal	GTQ
Guinea	Guinean franc	GNF
Guinea-Bissau	West African CFA franc	XOF
Guyana	Guyanese dollar	GYD
H
Haiti	Haitian gourde	HTG
Honduras	Honduran lempira	HNL
Hong Kong	Hong Kong dollar	HKD
Hungary	Hungarian forint	HUF
I
Iceland	Icelandic króna	ISK
India	Indian rupee	INR
Indonesia	Indonesian rupiah	IDR
International Monetary Fund	Special Drawing Rights	XDR
Iran	Iranian rial	IRR
Iraq	Iraqi dinar	IQD
Ireland	European euro	EUR
Israel	Israeli new sheqel	ILS
Italy	European euro	EUR
J
Jamaica	Jamaican dollar	JMD
Japan	Japanese yen	JPY
Jordan	Jordanian dinar	JOD
K
Kazakhstan	Kazakhstani tenge	KZT
Kenya	Kenyan shilling	KES
Kiribati	Australian dollar	AUD
Korea North	North Korean won	KPW
Korea South	South Korean won	KRW
Kuwait	Kuwaiti dinar	KWD
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstani som	KGS
L
Laos	Lao kip	LAK
Latvia	Latvian lats	LVL
Lebanon	Lebanese lira	LBP
Lesotho	Lesotho loti	LSL
Liberia	Liberian dollar	LRD
Libya	Libyan dinar	LYD
Liechtenstein	uses the Swiss Franc	CHF
Lithuania	Lithuanian litas	LTL
Luxembourg	European euro	EUR
M
Macau	Macanese pataca	MOP
Macedonia (Former Yug. Rep.)	Macedonian denar	MKD
Madagascar	Malagasy ariary	MGA
Malawi	Malawian kwacha	MWK
Malaysia	Malaysian ringgit	MYR
Maldives	Maldivian rufiyaa	MVR
Mali	West African CFA franc	XOF
Malta	European Euro	EUR
Mauritania	Mauritanian ouguiya	MRO
Mauritius	Mauritian rupee	MUR
Mexico	Mexican peso	MXN
Micronesia	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Moldova	Moldovan leu	MDL
Monaco	European Euro	EUR
Mongolia	Mongolian tugrik	MNT
Montenegro	European Euro	EUR
Montserrat	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Morocco	Moroccan dirham	MAD
Mozambique	Mozambican metical	MZM
Myanmar	Myanma kyat	MMK
N
Namibia	Namibian dollar	NAD
Nauru	Australian dollar	AUD
Nepal	Nepalese rupee	NPR
Netherlands Antilles	Netherlands Antillean gulden	ANG
Netherlands	European euro	EUR
New Caledonia	CFP franc	XPF
New Zealand	New Zealand dollar	NZD
Nicaragua	Nicaraguan cordoba	NIO
Niger	West African CFA franc	XOF
Nigeria	Nigerian naira	NGN
Norway	Norwegian krone	NOK
O
Oman	Omani rial	OMR
P
Pakistan	Pakistani rupee	PKR
Palau	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Panama	Panamanian balboa	PAB
Panama Canal Zone	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinean kina	PGK
Paraguay	Paraguayan guarani	PYG
Peru	Peruvian nuevo sol	PEN
Philippines	Philippine peso	PHP
Poland	Polish zloty	PLN
Portugal	European euro	EUR
Puerto Rico	uses the U.S. Dollar	USD
Q
Qatar	Qatari riyal	QAR
R
Romania	Romanian leu	RON
Russia	Russian ruble	RUB
Rwanda	Rwandan franc	RWF
S
Saint Helena	Saint Helena pound	SHP
Saint Kitts and Nevis	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Saint Lucia	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	East Caribbean dollar	XCD
Samoa (Western)	Samoan tala	WST
San Marino	European euro	EUR
Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome and Principe dobra	STD
Saudi Arabia	Saudi riyal	SAR
Senegal	West African CFA franc	XOF
Serbia	Serbian dinar	RSD
Seychelles	Seychellois rupee	SCR
Sierra Leone	Sierra Leonean leone	SLL
Singapore	Singapore dollar	SGD
Slovakia	Slovak koruna	SKK
Slovenia	European euro	EUR
Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands dollar	SBD
Somalia	Somali shilling	SOS
South Africa	South African rand	ZAR
South Sudan	Sudanese pound	SDG
Spain	European euro	EUR
Sri Lanka	Sri Lankan rupee	LKR
Sudan	Sudanese pound	SDG
Suriname	Surinamese dollar	SRD
Swaziland	Swazi lilangeni	SZL
Sweden	Swedish krona	SEK
Switzerland	Swiss franc	CHF
Syria	Syrian pound	SYP
T
Taiwan	New Taiwan dollar	TWD
Tajikistan	Tajikistani somoni	TJS
Tanzania	Tanzanian shilling	TZS
Thailand	Thai baht	THB
Togo	West African CFA franc	XOF
Tonga	Paanga	TOP
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago dollar	TTD
Tunisia	Tunisian dinar	TND
Turkey	Turkish new lira	TRY
Turkmenistan	Turkmen manat	TMM
Tuvalu	Australian dollar	AUD
U
Uganda	Ugandan shilling	UGX
Ukraine	Ukrainian hryvnia	UAH
United Arab Emirates	UAE dirham	AED
United Kingdom	British pound	GBP
United States of America	United States dollar	USD
Uruguay	Uruguayan peso	UYU
Uzbekistan	Uzbekistani som	UZS
V
Vanuatu	Vanuatu vatu	VUV
Vatican	European euro	EUR
Venezuela	Venezuelan bolivar	VEB
Vietnam	Vietnamese dong	VND
W
Wallis and Futuna Islands	CFP franc	XPF
Y
Yemen	Yemeni rial	YER
Z
Zambia	Zambian kwacha	ZMK
Zimbabwe	Zimbabwean dollar	ZWD