Largest In India

• Largest Lake - Wular Lake, Kashmir
• Largest lake (Fresh water) - Loktak lake (Manipur)
• Largest Lake (salty Water) - Chilka Lake, Orrisa
• Largest Man-Made Lake - Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
• Largest Fresh Water Lake - Kolleru Lake (Andhra Pradesh)
• Largest Populated City – Mumbai
• Largest State(Area) – Rajasthan
• Largest State(Population) - Uttar Pradesh
• Largest state under forest area - Madhya Pradesh
• Largest Delta - Sunderbans Delta
• Largest River without Delta - Narmada and Tapti
• Largest Public Sector Bank - State Bank of India
• Largest Dome - Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
• Largest Zoo - Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata)
• Largest Museum - national Museum at Kolkata
• Largest Desert  - Thar (Rajasthan)
• Largest District - Kutch district
• Largest Cave - Amarnath (J&K)
• Largest Cave Temple - Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra)
• Largest Animal Fair - Sonepur (Bihar)
• Largest Auditorium -     Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
• Largest Port – Mumbai
• Largest Gurudwara - Golden Temple, Amritsar
• Largest Church - Saint Cathedral (Goa)
• Largest River Island - Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Asom)
• Largest Planetarium - Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)
• Largest inland salt lake - Sambhar lake
• Largest Cantilever Span Bridge -  Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
• Largest Railway Bridge - Nehru Setu, Bihar (river Sone)
• Largest Mosque - Jama Masjid, Delhi
• Largest Railway Route - From Jammu to Kanya Kumari

Longest in India

1. Longest River in India - The Ganges
2. Longest Tributary river of India - Yamuna
3. The longest river of the south – Godavari
4. Longest river which forms estuary - Narmada
5. Longest Cantilever Span Bridge - Howrah Bridge
6. Longest River Bridge - Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
7. Longest Canal - Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan)
8. State with longest coastline – Gujarat
9. State with longest coastline of South India - Andhra Pradesh
10. Longest Electric Railway Line - From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
11. Longest Railway Route - From Assam to Kanyakumari
12. Longest Railway Platform - Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
13. Longest Tunnel (Road)  - Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
14. Longest Tunnel (Railway) -  Between Monkey Hill and Khandala stations
15. Longest Highway - NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
16. Longest Beach - Marina Beach, Chennai
17. Longest Corridor -  Ramanathaswamy Corridor, Tamil Nadu (1,220 mt.)
18. Longest Dam -  Hirakud Dam (Odisha)
19. Longest Road - Grand Trunk Road
20. Longest Bridge - Sone Bridge
21. Longest Statue- Statue of Gomateswara, Karanataka

Highest In India

1. Highest Award- Bharat Ratna
2. Highest Gallantry Award - Param Vir Chakra
3. Highest Lake - Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)
4. Highest Peak  - Karkoram-2 of K-2(8,611 meters)
5. Highest rainfall – Cherrapunhi
6. Highest Road - Road at Khardungla in Leh-Manali Sector
7. Highest Gateway - Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri -53.6 meters high
8. Highest Dam - Tehri Dam
9. Highest Tower - Kutab Minar at Delhi
10. Highest Railway Station - Ghum in West Bengal
11. Highest Battle Field - Siachin Glacier
12. Highest Airport - Leh (Laddakh)
13. Highest award for Gallantry -  Param Vir Chakra
14. Highest award for civilian -  Bharat Ratna
15. Highest Dam -  Bhakra Dam on river Sutlej

First In India

• President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
• The first Education Minister -  Abdul Kalam Azad
• Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti  Rajgopalachari
• Speaker of loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
• Chairman of  Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar
• President of  National Congress—Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
• President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra
• Chief  Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
• The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - S. Mukherjee
• The first Indian Naval Chief - Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
• First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh
• First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani
• First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
• Governor of  RBI— Sir Osborne Smith
• Space traveller— Rakesh Sharma
• Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950
• Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi
• Novel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore
• Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’— Indira Gandhi
• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
• Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
• Woman Doctorate of  Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)
• Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi
• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976
• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956
• Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy
• Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya
• Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule
• Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee
• Woman to received Nobal Prize— Mother Teresa
• Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
• Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata
• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal
• Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant
• The first person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma
• Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar
• The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics – Amartya Sen
• Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai
• Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji
• Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi
• Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh
• Miss World—Reita Faria in 1966
• Miss Asia Pacific—Zeenat Aman in 1970
• Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen in 1994
• Miss Earth—Nicole Faria in 2010
• Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in 1897
• Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
• Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
• Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
• Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt
• Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760
• Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
• Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita
• Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay
• Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen—Phu Dorjee
• Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal
• Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
• Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh
• Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad
• Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy
• Tennis Grand slam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati
• First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra
• First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar
• The first woman Olympic medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000
• The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Chinese traveller to visit India – Fahein

Dates to Be Remember (Indian Freedom Movement)

1857-58 first war of Indian Independence

1878 vernacular press Act

1885 Indian National congress first meeting

1892 Indian Council Act to regulate Indian Administration

1899 Lord Curzon becomes Governor General and viceroy

1905 First partition of Bengal

1906 Formation for muslim League

1908 newspaper Act

1914 The first world war starts

1915 Defense of India Act

1917 Annie Besant becomes president of Indian National Congress

1922 Civil Disobedient Movement

1923 Swarajya Party Started by C.R. Das and Moti Lal Nehru

1927 Indian Navy Act

1928  Simon Commission comes to india

1930 Jan. 26^th as Independent Day all over India

1933 White paper on Indian reforms

1939 2^nd world war begins

1942 Crrips Mission to India

1947 All india Congress Committee accepts partition of india