05/11/2013
Knowledge Zone
FIRST IN INDIA
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1 First Solar Energy Centre
Gwalpahar, Gurgaon, Haryana
2 First song-less film
JBH Wadia's Naujawan
3 First south Indian film to be released in Korea
Tamil Film Muthu Maharaja
4 First Talkie Film
Alam Ara
5 First Telefilm
Satyajit Ray's Sadgat
6 First Telegraph Line
It was laid between Calcutta and Agra in 1854
7 First Telephone system
It was started in 1881 from Calcutta
8 First Television Reception Centre
Arvi, located in Maharashtra
9 First veterinary college
Opened in Parel in Bombay in 1885
10 First Wind farm
Mandvi, Kutch in Gujarat
11 India’s first Antartica expedition
January 11, 1982
12 India’s first Satellite
Aryabhatta, April 19, 1975.
13 India's first colour film
Sairandhri.
14 India's first fully indigenous silent feature film
Raja Harishchandra.
15 India's first indigenously built missile destroyer
INS 'Delhi'.
16 India's first indigenously built submarine
INS 'Shakti' .
17 India's first indigenously made colour film
Kisan Kanya.
18 India's first manufacturer of light bulbs and electrical equipment
Bengal Lamps, Calcutta.
19 India's First Oil well
Digboi.
20 India's first radio programme
ClubRadio in 1924.
21 India's First largest inland lake
Lake Chilika, Orissa.
22 First Largest circulated multi-edition daily in India Roudramukhi Swar .
23 First Largest circulated periodical in India
Malayala Manorama
24 First Largest circulated single edition newspaper in India Hindustan Times from Delhi
25 First Largest Nandi in India
Nandi of the Leepakshi Temple at Andhra Pradesh.
26 First Largest Stupa in India
Mahachaitya Stupa, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh.
27 World's First University
Taxila (700 B.C.).
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