Sunday, January 13, 2019

FIRST IN INDIA

1. Who was the first President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2. Who was the first Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India – C. Rajagopalachari
4. Who was the first Mughal emperor – Babur
5. Who was the first President of USA – John Hanson
6. Who was the first woman President of India – Pratibha Devisingh Patil
7. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
8. Who was the first king of India – Chandragupta Maurya
9. Who was the first astronaut – Yuri Gagarin
10. Who was the first attorney general of India – M. C. Setalvad
11. Who was the first American president to visit India – Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. Who was the first avenger – Captain America
13. Who was the first animal to go into space – Dog Laika
14. Who was the first astronaut to walk on the surface of the moon – Neil Armstrong
15. Who was the first astronaut of India – Rakesh Sharma
16. Who was the first army chief of India – Field Marshal Kodandera "Kipper" Madappa Cariappa
17. Who was the first president of America – John Hanson
18. Who was the first British governor-general of India – Warren Hastings
19. Who was the first black president of South Africa – Nelson Mandela
20. Who was the first Bharat Ratna – C. Rajagopalachari
21. Who was the first British governor of India – Warren Hastings
22. Who was the first battle of Panipat – 21 April 1526
23. Who was the first captain of Indian cricket team – C. K. Nayudu
24. Who was the first chief minister of Delhi – Chaudhry Brahm Prakash
25. Who was the first chief election commissioner of India – Sukumar Sen
26. Who was the first chairman of the planning commission of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
27. Who was the first chairman of Rajya Sabha – Dr. S Radhakrishnan
28. Who was the first chief minister of Bihar – Krishna Singh
29. Who was the first chairman of ISRO – Vikram Sarabhai
30. Who was the first deputy prime minister of India – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
31. Who was the first Dalit president of India – Kocheril Raman Narayanan
32. Who was the first defence minister of India – Baldev Singh
33. Who was the First Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha – S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao
34. Who was the first deputy speaker of Lok Sabha – Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
35. Who was the first dog to go in space – Dog Laika
36. Who was the first deputy chairman of planning commission – Gulzarilal Nanda
37. Who was the first election commissioner of India – Sukumar Sen
38. Who was the first education minister of independent India – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
39. Who was the first emperor of India – Chandragupta Maurya
40. Who was the first governor – Warren Hastings
41. Who was the first governor-general of Bengal – Warren Hastings
42. Who was the first guru of Sikh – Guru Nanak
43. Who was the first health minister of India – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
44. Who was the first home minister – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
45. Who was the first Indian to go into space – Rakesh Sharma
46. Who was the first IAS officer of India – Satyendranath Tagore
47. Who was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest – Avtar Singh Cheema
48. Who was the first Indian to win an Oscar – Bhanu Athaiya
49. Who was the first Indian cricket captain – CK Nayudu
50. Who was the first Indian governor general of India – Warren Hastings
51. Who was the first Indian to win Nobel prize – Rabindranath Tagore
52. Who was the first person in space – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
53. Who was the first woman in space – Valentina Tereshkova
54. Who was the first judge of supreme court of India – Harilal Jekisundas Kania
55. Who was the first Jnanpith Puraskar winner – G. Sankara Kurup
56. Who was the first judge of High Court – Leila Seth
57. Who was the first cm of Jammu and Kashmir – Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
58. Who was the first governor of Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh
59. Who was the first king of England – Egbert (Ecgherht) 
60. Who was the first king of Nepal – Prithvi Narayan Shah
61. Who was the first law minister of India – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
62. Who was the first Lok Sabha speaker – Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar
63. Who was the first leader of opposition in Lok Sabha – A K Gopalan
64. Who was the first man to land on moon – Neil Armstrong
65. Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest – Edmund Hillary
66. Who was the first Mughal ruler – Babur
67. Who was the first Muslim president of India – Zakir Husain
68. Who was the first Nobel prize winner in India – Rabindranath Tagore
69. Who was the first Nawab of Bengal – Murshid Quli Khan
70. Who was the first non-indian to receive Bharat Ratna – Mother Teresa
71. Who was the first nurse – Florence Nightingale72. Who was the first national security advisor of India – Brajesh Mishra
73. Who was the first Nobel prize winner in physics – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany)
74. Who was the first national ruler of India – Chandragupta Maurya
75. Who was the first Nizam of Hyderabad – Asaf Jah
76. Who was the first national poet of India – Rabindranath Tagore
77. Who was the first Oscar winner from India – Bhanu Athaiya
78. Who was the first Olympic winner – James Connolly
79. Who was the first owner of Kohinoor diamond – Kakatiya dynasty
80. Who was the first president of independent India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
81. Who was the first railway minister of independent India – John Mathai
82. Who was the first recipient of Param Vir Chakra – Major Somnath Sharma
83. Who was the first ruler of slave dynasty – Quṭb al-Din Aibak
84. Who was the first ruler of Delhi sultanate –Quṭb al-Din Aibak
85. Who was the first Roman emperor – Augustus
86. Who was the first ruler of Mughal empire – Babur
87. Who was the first secretary general of UNO – Trygve Lie
88. Who was the first speaker of Rajya Sabha – Mr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
89. Who was the first test tube baby – Louise Joy Brown
90. Who was the first teacher of India – Savitribai Jyotirao Phule
91. Who was the first vice prime minister of India – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
92. Who was the first vice president of independent India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
93. Who was the first voter of India – Shyam Saran Negi
94. Who was the first vice chairman of planning commission – V.T. Krishnamachari
95. Who was the first vice pm of India – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
96. Who was the first woman governor of India – Sarojini Naidu
97. Who was the first 20th-century president – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
98. what was the first five-year plan – 15 March 1950
99. Who was the first digital village in India – Akodara
100. Who was the first Wi-fi hotspot village in Haryana – Gumthala Garhu

List of State Birds of India

StateCommon nameBinomial nomenclature   
Andhra PradeshIndian rollerCoracias benghalensis
Arunachal PradeshGreat hornbillBuceros bicornis
AssamWhite-winged wood duckAsarcornis scutulata
BiharIndian rollerCoracias benghalensis
ChhattisgarhBastar hill mynaGracula religiosa peninsularis
GoaBlack-crested bulbulPycnonotus flaviventris
GujaratGreater flamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
HaryanaBlack francolinFrancolinus francolinus
Himachal PradeshWestern tragopan (Jujurana)Tragopan melanocephalus
Jammu and KashmirBlack-necked craneGrus nigricollis
JharkhandAsian koelEudynamys scolopaceus
KarnatakaIndian rollerCoracias benghalensis
KeralaGreat hornbillBuceros bicornis
Madhya PradeshAsian paradise flycatcherTerpsiphone paradisi
MaharashtraYellow-footed green pigeonTreron phoenicoptera
ManipurMrs. Hume's pheasantSyrmaticus humiae
MeghalayaHill mynaGracula religiosa peninsularis
MizoramMrs. Hume's pheasantSyrmaticus humiae
NagalandBlyth's tragopanTragopan blythii
OdishaIndian rollerCoracias benghalensis
PunjabNorthern goshawkAccipiter gentilis
RajasthanGreat Indian bustardArdeotis nigriceps
SikkimBlood pheasantIthaginis cruentus
Tamil NaduEmerald doveChalcophaps indica
TelanganaIndian rollerCoracias benghalensis
TripuraGreen imperial pigeonDucula aenea
UttarakhandHimalayan monalLophophorus impejanus
Uttar PradeshSarus craneGrus antigone
West BengalWhite-breasted kingfisherHalcyon smyrnensis
Puducherry (UT)Asian koelEudynamys scolopaceus
Lakshadweep (UT)Sooty ternOnychoprion fuscatus
Delhi(NCT)House sparrowPasser domesticus

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

List of Chief Election Commissioners of India Since 1950 to 2019

1Sukumar Sen : 21 March, 1950 to 19 December, 1958

2. K. V. K. Sundaram : 20 December, 1958 to 30 September, 1967
3. S. P. Sen Verma : 1 October, 1967 to 30 September, 1972
4. Nagendra Singh : 1 October, 1972 to 6 February, 1973
5. T. Swaminathan : 7 February, 1973 to 17 June, 1977
6. S. L. Shakdhar : 18 June, 1977 to 17 June, 1982
7. R. K. Trivedi : 18 June, 1982 to 31 December, 1985
8. R. V. S. Peri Sastri : 1 January, 1986 to 25 November, 1990
9. V. S. Ramadevi : 26 November, 1990 to 11 December, 1990
10. T. N. Seshan : 12 December, 1990 to 11 December, 1996
11. M. S. Gill : 12 December, 1996 to 13 June, 2001
12. J. M. Lyngdoh : 14 June, 2001 to 7 February, 2004
13. T. S. Krishnamurthy : 8 February, 2004 to 15 May, 2005
14. B. B. Tandon : 16 May, 2005 to 28 June, 2006
15. N. Gopalaswami : 29 June, 2006 to 20 April, 2009
16. Navin Chawla : 21 April, 2009 to 29 July, 2010
17. S. Y. Quraishi : 30 July, 2010 to 10 June, 2012

18. V. S. Sampath : 10 June, 2012 to 15 January, 2015
19. H. S. Brahma : 15 January, 2015 to 18 April, 2015
20. Nasim Zaidi : 19 April, 2015 to 6 July, 2017
21. Achal Kumar Jyoti : 6 July, 2017 to 22 January, 2018
22. Om Prakash Rawat : 23 January, 2018 to 2 December, 2018
23. Sunil Arora : December, 2018 to Incumbent 

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Fathers of Different Fields

Who is the father of Modern Physics – Galileo Galilei
Who is the father of the Green Revolution – Norman Ernest Borlaug
Who is the father of Microbiology – Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Who is the father of Modern Astronomy – Nicolaus Copernicus
Who is the father of Nuclear Physics – Ernest Rutherford
Who is the father of Nuclear Science – Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Who is the father of Computer Science – George Boole and Alan Turing
Who is the father of Biology – Aristotle
Who is the father of the Green Revolution in India – M. S. Swaminathan
Who is the father of the Indian Constitution – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Who is the father of American Football – Walter Chauncey Camp
Who is the father of Evolution – Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Modern Olympic – Pierre De Coubertin
Who is the father of Numbers – Pythagoras
Who is the father of Genetics – Gregor Mendel
Who is the father of Internet – Vint Cerf
Who is the father of Botany – Theophrastus
Who is the father of Scientific Management – Frederick Winslow Taylor
Who is the father of Electricity – Benjamin Franklin
Who is the father of Electronics – Michael Faraday
Who is the father of Television – Philo Farnsworth
Who is the father of Nuclear Chemistry – Otto Hahn
Who is the father of Periodic Table – Dmitri Mendeleev
Who is the father of Humanism – Francesco Petrarca
Who is the father of Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Who is the father of Mobile Phone – Martin Cooper
Who is the father of Geometry – Euclid
Who is the father of Microscopy – Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Who is the father of Laptop – Bill Moggridge
Who is the father of Psychology – Sigmund Freud
Who is the father of Surgery – Sushruta
Who is the father of New France – Samuel de Champlain
Who is the father of the American Constitution – James Madison
Who is the father of Plastic Surgery – Sir Harold Gillies
Who is the father of Ayurveda – Dhanwantari
Who is the father of Western Medicine – Hippocrates
Who is the father of Modern Medicine – Hippocrates
Who is the father of Cloning – Sigmund Freud
Who is the father of Printing – Guttenberg
Who is the father of History – Herodotus
Who is the father of Economics – Adam Smith
Who is the father of Philosophy – Socrates
Who is the father of Sociology – Augustys Comte
Who is the father of English Poetry – Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the father of Essay – Montaigne
Who is the father of Homeopathy – Samuel Haniman
Who is the father of Socialism – Robert Owen
Who is the father of Scientific Socialism – Karl Marx
Who is the father of Co-operation – Robert Obeea
Who is the father of Jurisprudence – John Locke
Who is the father of Atom Bomb – Otto Wahn
Who is the father of Motar Car – Henry Ford
Who is the father of Reformation – Martin Luther
Who is the father of Greek Democracy – Clesthenes
Who is the father of Bangladesh – Sheikh Majibur Rehman
Who is the father of Pakistan – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Who is the father of Modern Cartoon – William Hogarth
Who is the father of Modern Computer – Charles Babbage
Who is the father of Modern Drama – Henrik J. Ibsen
Who is the father of Modern Tourism – Tlemas Cook
Who is the father of Painting – Leonardo da Vinci
Who is the father of Green Revolution – Norman Borlaug
Who is the father of Renaissance – Petrarch

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Padma Awards 2018

Padma Vibhushan Award 2018 Winners :
Sl. No
NameFieldState
1.Shri IllaiyarajaArt-MusicTamil Nadu
2.Shri Ghulam Mustafa KhanArt-MusicMaharashtra
3.Shri Parameswaran ParameswaranLiterature and EducationKerala

Padma Bhushan Award 2018 Winners: 
The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award (after Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan) in the Republic of India. Padma Bhushan is given for distinguished service of high order.

Sl. NoNameFieldState
4.Shri Pankaj AdvaniSports-Billiards/SnookerKarnataka
5.Shri Philipose Mar ChrysostomOthers-SpiritualismKerala
6.Shri Mahendra Singh DhoniSports-CricketJharkhand
7.Shri Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous)Public AffairsRussia
8.Shri Ramachandran NagaswamyOthers-ArchaeologyTamil Nadu
9.Shri Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI)Literature and EducationUSA
10.Shri Laxman PaiArt-PaintingGoa
11.Shri Arvind ParikhArt-MusicMaharashtra
12.Ms. Sharda SinhaArt-MusicBihar

Padma Shri Award 2018 Winners :
 Padma Shri (also Padmashree) is the fourth highest civilian award (after Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan) in the Republic of India. Padma Shri is awarded for distinguished service in any field.

Sl. NoNameField
State
13.Shri Abhay Bang (Duo)MedicineMaharashtra
Ms. Rani Bang (Duo)MedicineMaharashtra
14.Shri Damodar Ganesh BapatSocial WorkChhattisgarh
15.Shri Prafulla Govinda BaruahLiterature and Education-JournalismAssam
16.Shri Mohan Swaroop BhatiaArt-Folk MusicUttar Pradesh
17.Shri Sudhanshu BiswasSocial Work
West Bengal
18.Ms. Saikhom Mirabai ChanuSports-WeightliftingManipur
19.Shri Pandit Shyamlal ChaturvediLiterature and Education-JournalismChhattisgarh
20.Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)Trade & IndustryPhilippines
21.Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani DeviArt-WeavingManipur
22.Shri Somdev DevvarmanSports-Tennis
Tripura
23.Shri Yeshi DhodenMedicineHimachal Pradesh
24.Shri Arup Kumar DuttaLiterature and EducationAssam
25.Shri Doddarange GowdaArt-LyricsKarnataka
26.Shri Arvind GuptaLiterature and EducationMaharashtra
27.Shri Digamber HansdaLiterature and EducationJharkhand
28.Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)Art-DanceMalaysia
29.Shri Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)Literature and EducationUttar Pradesh
30.Shri Piyong Temjen JamirLiterature and EducationNagaland
31.Ms. Sitavva JoddatiSocial WorkKarnataka
32.Ms. Malti JoshiLiterature and EducationMadhya Pradesh
33.Shri Manoj JoshiArt-ActingMaharashtra
34.Shri Rameshwarlal KabraTrade & IndustryMaharashtra
35.Shri Pran Kishore KaulArtJammu and Kashmir
36.Shri Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)Others-ArchitectureLaos
37.Shri Vijay KichluArt-MusicWest Bengal
38.Shri Tommy Koh (Foreigner)Public AffairsSingapore
39.Ms. LakshmikuttyMedicine-TraditionalKerala
40.Ms. Joyshree Goswami MahantaLiterature and EducationAssam
41.Shri Narayan Das MaharajOthers-SpiritualismRajasthan
42.Shri Pravakara MaharanaArt-SculptureOdisha
43.Shri Hun Many (Foreigner)Public AffairsCambodia
44.Ms. Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)Others- YogaSaudi Arabia
45.Shri Zaverilal MehtaLiterature and Education-JournalismGujarat
46.Shri Krishna Bihari MishraLiterature and EducationWest Bengal
47.Shri Sisir Purushottam MishraArt-CinemaMaharashtra
48.Ms. Subhasini MistrySocial WorkWest Bengal
49.Shri Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)Literature and EducationJapan
50.Shri Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)Others-SpiritualismThailand
51.Shri Keshav Rao MusalgaonkarLiterature and EducationMadhya Pradesh
52.Dr Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)Public AffairsMyanmar
53.Ms. V NanammalOthers-YogaTamil Nadu
54.Ms. Sulagitti NarasammaSocial WorkKarnataka
55.Ms. Vijayalakshmi NavaneethakrishnanArt-Folk MusicTamil Nadu
56.Shri I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)Art- SculptureIndonesia
57.Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)Social WorkBrunei Darussalam
58.Shri Gobaradhan PanikaArt-WeavingOdisha
59.Shri Bhabani Charan PattanaikPublic AffairsOdisha
60.Shri Murlikant PetkarSports-SwimmingMaharashtra
61.Shri Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)Literature and EducationTajikistan
62.Shri M R RajagopalMedicine-Palliative CareKerala
63.Shri Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)Social WorkMaharashtra
64.Shri Chandra Sekhar RathLiterature and EducationOdisha
65.Shri S S RathoreCivil ServiceGujarat
66.Shri Amitava RoyScience and EngineeringWest Bengal
67.Shri Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)Medicine-OphthalmologyNepal
68.Shri R SathyanarayanaArt-MusicKarnataka
69.Shri Pankaj M ShahMedicine-OncologyGujarat
70.Shri Bhajju ShyamArt-PaintingMadhya Pradesh
71.Shri Maharao Raghuveer SinghLiterature and EducationRajasthan
72.Shri Kidambi SrikanthSports-BadmintonAndhra Pradesh
73.Shri Ibrahim SutarArt-MusicKarnataka
74.Shri Siddeshwara SwamijiOthers-SpiritualismKarnataka
75.Ms. Lentina Ao ThakkarSocial WorkNagaland
76.Shri Vikram Chandra ThakurScience and EngineeringUttarakhand
77.Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo)Art-MusicKarnataka
Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo)Art-MusicKarnataka
78.Shri Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner)Others-SpiritualismVietnam
79.Shri Bhagirath Prasad TripathiLiterature and EducationUttar Pradesh
80.Shri Rajagopalan VasudevanScience and EngineeringTamil Nadu
81.Shri Manas Bihari VermaScience and EngineeringBihar
82.Shri Panatawane Gangadhar VithobajiLiterature and EducationMaharashtra
83.Shri Romulus WhitakerOthers-Wildlife ConservationTamil Nadu
84.Shri Baba YogendraArtMadhya Pradesh
85.Shri A ZakiaLiterature and EducationMizoram

Padma Awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year