First Womens court in India: Malda, West Bengal (24/1/2013) • Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 • The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886 • Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888 • The first woman Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya • Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886) • The first woman to receive Nobel Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta • Women Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee • Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005 • Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford. (data by facebook/cnaonweb) • Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913) • Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944) • Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991(data by facebook/ cnaonweb) • The first woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya • Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi • High Court Judge: Anna Chandy • Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953 • Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886 • Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee • In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event. • Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias): Muthamma Chonira.(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • The first woman to cross English Channel: Aarti Saha • Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205– 1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966 • Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health(data by facebook/ cnaonweb) • Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949 • Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self- government and public health, 1937 • Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar • Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant • President: Pratibha Patil, 2007 • IPS Officer Kiran Bedi(data by facebook/ cnaonweb) • Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu • The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984 • Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open • To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open. • Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. (data by facebook/cnaonweb) • State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October, 2010 • Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August, 2011[28] • The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.(data by facebook/cnaonweb) • To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011[29] • First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha[30](data by facebook/cnaonweb) • first woman IAS officer:Anna Rajan George (b1927)kerela qualified in 1950 sub divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951 • First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race (Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October, 2007) • First Indian Women to win Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------
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