1-The first Woman Joint Director in the CBI- Archana Ramasundaram 2-The first Scientist President of the Republic of India- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 3-The first woman President of the Republic of India- Pratibha Patil (13th President afterIndependence) 4-The first woman cricketer to score double century- Mithali Raj 5-The first Indian woman to be appointed as Civil Police Advisor in the UNO Ms. Kiran Bedi 6-The first Commander Chief of the Strategic Forces Command Air Marshal Tej Mohan Asthana 7-The first youngest Mayor of a city -Ms. Neeta Sodhi (Mayor of Jamshedpur) 8-The first woman Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 9-The first Indian sports lady to register a win in Wimbledon 2003) Tennis Sania Mirza (July 2003) 10-The first Indian sportswoman to win a medal in World Athletics Anju B. George (August 2003, Paris) 11-The first Indian woman to become the Director General of Police of a State Kanchan Chaudhury Bhattacharya (DGP of Uttarakhand) 12-The first Indian woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the armed forces Lt. Gen. Puneeta Arora 13-The first Indian woman in the world to swim across seven seas and five continents of the world Bula Chaudhury 14-The Indian lady to become Indian Air Forces first woman Air Marshal Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay 15-The first Indian cricketer to score a century against all the test match playing countries Rahul Dravid 16-The first Indian to establish a world record in flying to the highest of heights ever reached yet in a hot balloon Vijaypath Singhania (November, 2005, 69852 ft.) 17-The first lady President of P.H.D.C.C.I. Sushma Barlia 18-The first person appointed as whole life time Chancellor of a new and biggest Yoga institution in the world at Haridwar (Uttarakhand) Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev appointed Chancellor of Patanjali Yog Pith University on March 6, 2006 by the Government of Uttarakhand. 19-The first man of Indian origin to become the Governor of a State of the U.S.A. Bobby Jindal (Governor of Louisiana, elected on October 20 2007) 20-The first Indian woman saint to be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, October, 2008 21-The first Indian woman to become the world"s first woman to fly the mighty Russian MIG-35 fighter jet. Suman Sharma
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