First In India-part(3)

PART 3

Defence (in the Republic of India)

• Commander-in-Chief of Free India : General Sir Roy Bucher
• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India : General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
• Chief of Air Staff : Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
• Indian Chief of Staff : General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
• Commander-in-Chief, IAF : Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
• Chief of Naval Staff : Vice Admiral R D Katari
• Cosmonaut : Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
• Field Marshal : Sam Manekshaw, 1973
• First Parsi Army Chief : Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
• First Parsi Navy Chief : Admiral J L Cursetji
• First Parsi Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Aspy Engineer
• First Christian Army Chief : General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
• First Christian Navy Chief : Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
• First Christian Air Force Chief : Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
• First Sikh Army Chief : General Joginder Jaswant Singh
• First Sikh Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Arjan Singh
• First Muslim Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
• First female officer to be court martialled: Anjali Gupta
• First female jawan in the Army : Sapper Shanti Tigga Economy
• First power in India with Soviet Collaboration : Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962.
• First central PSU to be privatized : Modern Food Industries in January 2000

Exploration

   

• Person to reach the South Pole : Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
• Woman to scale Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
• Woman to reach South Pole : Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
• Person to reach the North Pole : Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
• Person to have walked across Gobi desert : Sucheta Kadethankar

Film, TV and entertainment

• First Film to be exhibited in India on 7 July 1896, with the Lumiere Brothers' 
• First silent film to be made in India : Raja Harishchandra, 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke.
• Bengali film maker:Hiralal Sen
• First Bengali talkie  : Dena Paona (1931)
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani (1969)
• First Government award for films :Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards(1937)
• First Punjabi film made in the city :Kolkata
• First Indian filmmaker to get Bharat Ratna :Satyajit Ray (1992)