First in India in Governance

• President of the Indian National Congress— Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885

• President of the Indian National Congress of independent India— Acharya Kripalani, till Nov 1947

• President— Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)

• First Woman President— Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)

• The first Chief Election Commissioner — Sukumar Sen

• Industries and Supplies Minister— Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

• The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet— Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

• Vice-President— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 

• Prime Minister— Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.

• Deputy Prime Minister— Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)

• Law Minister of India— B. R. Ambedkar

• Leader of Opposition— A. K. Gopalan 

• Prime Minister to be voted out of office— Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party

• Non-Congress government— Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980) 

• Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party— E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957

• Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years)— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

• Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years)— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

• Prime Minister from South India— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda

• Women Railway Minister of India— Mamata Banerjee[18]

• The first Viceroy of India— Lord Canning, 1858

• Governor-General of Independent India— Lord Mountbatten, 1947

• Indian Governor-General of Indian Union— C Rajagopalachari, 1948

• Chief Justice of India— H. J. Kania (1947–1951)

• First Sikh Prime Minister— Manmohan Singh (2004–present)

• First Muslim President— Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)

• First Sikh President— Giani Zail Singh

• First Chief Minister of West Bengal— Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh

• Indian ICS Officer— Satyendranath Tagore, 1863

• Speaker of Lok Sabha— G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956) 

• Finance Minister of Independent India— R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet

• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence— R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947

• First Home Minister of India— Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

• First Indian President to die in Office— Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969

• First Chief Minister to die in Office— C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu

• First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office— Morarji Desai, 1979

• First Woman Cabinet Minister in India— Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

• First Woman Minister in India— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

• First Woman Chief Minister— Sucheta Kriplani

• First Female Home Minister— Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.

• First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha— Meira Kumar

• First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India— Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.

New 7 Wonders of the World

1. Taj Mahal — Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India (AD 1632)

2. Chichen Itza — Yucatán Mexico( AD 800)

3. Christ the Redeemer — Rio de Janeiro Brazil (AD 1926)

4. Colosseum — Rome, Italy (AD 70)

5. Great Wall of China — China (BC 700)

6. Machu Picchu — Cuzco Region, Peru (AD 1438)

7. Petra —Ma'an Governorate, Jordan (BC 312)

IMPORTANT COMMITTEES

1. Parthasarathi Shome. – for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance

2. B. Shivraman Committee - NABARD

3. Suma Verma Committee - to update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006

4. Damodran Committee: on improvement of customer services in banks

5. Shri M. Narasimham Committee: on Banking Sector Reforms

6. Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee: on Financial Sector Reforms,

7. Shri B. Mahapatra Committee: to review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/ financial institutions.

8. Shri Aditya Puri Committee: Dissemination of Credit Information

9. Shri K.U.B. Rao Committee: recommended aligning gold import regulations

10. K M Chandrasekhar committee : for rationalization of foreign investment norms

11. Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee: to study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions

12. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India

13. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank

14. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII),

15. Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods: The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control Commission, Patna)

16. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.

17. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media

18. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India

19. Mukul Mudgal Committee: to look at process of film clearance

20. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank

21. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output

22. K M Chandrasekhar Committee – for rationalization of foreign investment norms

23. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII)

24. Janakiraman Committee - To investigate the security transactions of the bank

25. MS Ahluwalia committee - to evaluate aspects related to set up of Nalanda University

26. Sitakant Mahapatra committee - for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution

27. N R Narayana Murthy committee - for evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education.

28. C Rangarajan committee - for poverty scale estimates in the country

29. MB Shah committee - for inspection of illegal mining activities

30. N Rangachary committee - to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector

31. Parthasarathi Shome committee - implementation of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rule)

32. Deepak Parekh committee – for Financing Infrastructure sector

33. Naresh Chandra committee - 14 member task force on security issues

34. Bhandari Committee - Reconstruction of RRBs

35. RS Gujral Committee - suggest measures to boost MSME exports.

General knowledge questions for competitive exams

1. Which countries are separated by 38th parallel ?
Answer: North Korea and South Korea

2. What is the maximum length of a day in pole ?
Answer: 6 month

3. What is the name of corridor, connects north-eastern states to the rest of India which is known as Chicken's Neck ?
Answer: Siliguri Corridor

4. Who is the creator of painting Boy with a pipe ?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

5. Who presented the first budget in India (1860) ?
Answer: James Wilson

6. Which is the first country to get a loan from world bank ?
answer: France

7. The top secret 'Operation Lal Dora' which is recently in news is related to which incident ?
Answer: Landing of Indian troops in Mauritius

8. What is the name of border line that separates USA and Canada ?
answer: 49th parallel

9. Which is the largest soil group in India ?
Answer: Alluvial soil

10. Cartography is the study of ?
answer: Map

11. Who developed the system of latitude and longitude ?
Answer: Eratosthenes

12. Which river crosses the equator twice in its flow ?
answer: Congo River

Upcoming sporting events organized annual venue

 
Soccer
1) FIFA World Cup Soccer (20th) - 2014 Brazil
2) FIFA World Cup Soccer (21th) - Russia 2018
3) FIFA World Cup Soccer (22th) - 2022 Qatar
4) Euro Cup - 2016 France

Cricket
1) World Test Championship - England 2017
2) Twenty20 World Championship - 2014 Bangladesh
3) ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - Australia / New Zealand

Hockey
1) Men's Hockey World Cup - 2018 India
2) Women's Hockey World Cup - England 2018
3) Men's Hockey World Cup - 2014 The Hague (Netherlands)
4) Women's Hockey World Cup - 2014 The Hague (Netherlands)
5) Apfaiac Indoor Hockey World Cup 2015 - Germany

Olympic sports
1) Olympic Games (31th) - 2016 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2) Winter Olympic Games (22th) - 2014 Sochi (Russia)
3) Winter Olympic Games (23th) - 2018 The . Korea
4)Youth Olympic Games - 2014 Nanjing (China)

Commonwealth Games
1) Commonwealth Games (20th) - 2014 Glasgow (Scotland)
2) Commonwealth Games (21th) - 2018 Goldkost City (Australia)

Asian Games
1) Asian Games (17th) - 2014 Inchen (South Korea)
2) World Military Games (6th) 2015 - Mngyang (South Korea)

Other
1) IBF World Badminton Championships (21th) - 2014 Copenhagen (Denmark)

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN 2013

1) PHYSICS : 
François Englert(Belgium) & Peter W.Higgs(Britain) 

"For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

2) CHEMISTRY :
- Martin Karplus(USA), Michael Levitt(USA) & Arieh Warshel(USA)

"For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

3) PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE :
-BJames E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof

"For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells". (All 3 are from USA)

4) LITERATURE :
- Alice Munro (Canada)

"For master of the contemporary short story"

5) PEACE PRIZE :
- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

"For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons". Headquarter - Hague, Netherlands.

6) ECONOMIC SCIENCES :
- Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller (All 3 are from USA)

Companies and its heads

Mr. Cyrus Mistry - Chairman Tata Sons

Mr. Mukesh Ambani - Chairman Relience Industries

Mr. Lakshmi Mittal - Chairman Mittal Arcelor Steels

Ms. Kiran Majumdar - Chairman Biocon

Ms. Chanda Kochhar - Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank

Mr. Shiv Nadar - Chairman HCL Technologies

Mr. Naresh Goyal - Chairman Jet Airways

Mr. Sunil Mittal - Chairman Bharati Group

Ms. Indira Nooye - CEO Pepsico

Shikha Sharma - MD, CEO Axis Bank

S. D. Shibulal - CEO and Managing Director Infosys

Azim H. Premji - Chairman Wipro

Mr. Vineet Nayyar - Chairman of Mahindra Satyam

Mr. Rohit Nandan - Chairman & Managing Director of Air India

Mr. K. V. Kamath -Chairman ICICI Bank

Mr. C. M. Vasudev------ Chairman, HDFC Bank

Narayan Murthi---------- Founder & Chairman of Infosys

Steve Jobs-------------- Founder of Apple Company

Mr. Vijay Maliya-------- Chairman of Kingfisher Airlines

Mr. Sunil Mittal---------- Founder of Airtel 

Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla--- Chairman of Aditya Birla Group of Company

Mr. Anand Mahindra--------- Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Group

Rajan Bharti Mittal---------- President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India

Dr. Arup Roy Choudhury------------Chairman NTPC Mittu Chandilya CEO, Air Asia India