India First In Sports

India First In Sports
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 who achieved the feat in 51 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes in 2011
first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games(November 12 to 27 November 2010, Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games(Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010).	Ashish Kumar, He won Bronze medal in both games.
first Indian to win 2 Gold Medals for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan in 2011 and 2012. The Asian Champion is also a 4 time Olympian and has set the new Asian speed record on ice at 134.3 kmph and track record a 49.590 seconds.	Shiva Keshavan,
first Indian to win back to back Olympic medals (Bronze and Silver in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics respectively)	Sushil Kumar (wrestler)
Olympic team medal	Gold in Field Hockey, Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands in the Finals.
Individual medal (in British India): Two Silver medals by Norman Pritchard in 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris. (This is disputed however. The IOC claims he participated for India. The IAAF records him as participant for Great Britain.)
Individual medal	Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Medal in Tennis	Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Individual medal by a woman	Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney
Individual Gold medal	Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Individual Silver medal (Independent India)	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Medal in boxing	Vijender Kumar in the Beijing Olympics 2008
Medal in Badminton	Saina Nehwal, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Medal in wrestling:	Sushil Kumar, winning a Bronze in the Beijing Olympics 2008 and a Silver in the London Olympics 2012
Medal in boxing	MC Mary Kom, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Medal in wrestling	Yogeshwar Dutt, winning a bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Chess Grandmaster: Male	Viswanathan  Anand, 1988
Chase Grandmaster : Female -	Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old. (Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 14 years and 6 months.)
Tennis
Grand Slam title	Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open
Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event	Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event	Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open
Woman to win a Grand Slam title	Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open
Grand Slam junior title	Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship
Grand Slam junior title by a woman	Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships
first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.	Yuki Bhambri
Cricket
First Cricket Club in India	Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club
First test match played in India	India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934)
First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on - against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001-02	Sourav Ganguly
First Cricket Stadium	Eden Gardens in Kolkata
First Test Victory	Against England At Madras
Cricket tournament	The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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 in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds
First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup	Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket
Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match	Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match	Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004
Indian to score an ODI century:	Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior	24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
Hat-trick in an ODI	Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987
First World Cup Runners up captain	Sourav Ganguly (2003)
World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of	Kapil Dev
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests	Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs	Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
Winner of the first T20 World Cup	India (in 2007).
Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined	Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
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* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
First Indian to score a T20 century	Suresh Raina against South Africa.
Six sixes in an Over	Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England.
First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground	India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Fastest Fifty in a T20I	50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007)

India First In Science and Technology

India First In Science and Technology
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. He was the 138th man in space world-wide.
First Women in Space	Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19,1997 She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
First Test-tube baby	Durga Agarwal, born 1978
First Scienfific 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
The first person in the world to land on the moon	Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin Jr of USA (Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin) - July 21, 1969
First man to enter space (or the world's first cosmonaut)	Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
The first returnable space shuttle	Colombia
The first disabled satellite repaired in space	Solar Max
The first unmanned moon-buggy to explore surface of the moon	Lunokhod-I (Russia)
The first unmanned spaceship to have soft-landed and lifted off from the moon to return to earth.	Luna - 16 (Russia) (Sept. 21, 1970)
The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon	Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick named "Eagle"
The first country to send men on the moon	USA
The first to launch earth satellite or "artificial baby moon"	Russia
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Valentina Tereshkova (Russian)
The first person to float in space	Alexei Lenov (Russian)
The first American astronaut (and second person in the world) to float in space	Edward White
The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon	USSR
The first space rocket to hit the moon	Lunik-II
The first spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust	Surveyor-3 (USA)
The first space vehicle to soft-land on Moon	Luna-9 (Russia)
The first space vehicle to orbite the moon	Luna-10 (Russia)
The first space-craft to leave solar system	Pioneer II
The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space	Apollo-9 (USA)
The first manned spacehip to perform space flight round the moon	Apollo-8 (USA)
First Automatic Exchange installed	Shimla 1913-14
12 channel carrier system introduced	1953
First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at	Secunderabad, A.P. 1980
First optical fibre system for local junction	Pune 1979
First digital microwave junction introduced	1976
First PCM system commissioned	Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges In 1975
First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned	Lucknow and Kanpur In 1960
First Underground Metro Railways System	Kolkata 1984
First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis	15 August 1995 in Delhi
First Women In Space	Kalpana Chawla
Telegraph service opened to the Public	1854
First wireless telegraph station established	Sagar Islands and Sandheads In 1902