First in India: Part II

Governance:

• First President of Indian National Congress: Womeshchandra Bannerjee (1885)
• First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kriplani (1947)
• First President of India: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1905-1962)
• First Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-64)
• First women President : Pratibha Patil (2007-2014)
• First Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
• First Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyam Prasad Mukherjee
• First Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• First Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-50)
• First Law Minister: Dr. B R Ambedkar
• First Leader of Opposition: A K Gopalan
• Non-Congress government: Janata Party (1977-1980 with Morarji Desai as PM)
• Non-Congress State government with majority by single party: E M S Namboodiripad of CPI Kerala (1957)
• Prime Minister to lead minority government for for a full term: P V Narsimha Rao (1991-1996)
• Person outside Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as prime Minister for a full term: P V Narsimha Rao (1991-1996)
• First women Railway Minister: Mamta Banerjee
• First Viceroy of India: Lord Canning (1858)
• Governor General of India: Warren Hastings (1773)
• Governor General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten (1947)
• Indian Governor General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari (1948)
• First Sikh Prime Minister of India: Manmohan Singh (2004-2014)
• First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain: (1967-1969)
• Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore (1863)
• First speaker of Loksabha: G V Malvankar (1952-1956)
• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence: R K Shanmukhan Chetty (26 Nov 1947)
• First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• First Indian President to die in office: Zakir Hussain (3 May 1969)
• First Chief Minister to die in office: C N Annadurai, Tamilnadu
• First Prime Mister to resign from office: Morarji Desai (1979)
• First women Cabinet Minister of India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• First women Minister of India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• First women Chief Minister: Sucheta Krplani
• First women Governor of a State: Sarojini Naidu (UP, 1947-1949)
• First women speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar

First in India: Part I

Awards and titles:

• Mr. Universe: Manohar Aich (1952)
• Miss World: Reita Faria (1966)
• Miss Asia Pacific: Zeenet Aman (1970)
• International Teen Princess: Radha Bartake (1974)
• Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C Rajgopalachari, C V Raman (1954)
• Padma Vibhushan: Satyrenath Bose, Nandlal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji
• Magsaysay award: Vinoda Bhave (1958)
• Nishan-e-Pakistan: Morarji Desai (1990)

Defense (in the Republic of India):

• First President of Indian Republic: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• First Vice President of Indian Republic: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• First Defense Minister of India: Baldev Singh
• Commander in Chief of Free India: General Sir Roy Bucher
• Indian Commander in Chief of Free India: General Karippa (1949)
• Indian Chief of staff: General Karippa (1947)
• Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Thomas Elmhirst
• Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D Katari
• Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw (1973)
• First Param Vir Chakra Winner: Major Somnath Sharma
• First female jawan in the Army: Sapper Shanti Tigga

Economy:

• First power in India with Soviet Collaboration: Neyevli Lignite Corporation (1962)
• First central PSU to be privatized: Modern Food Industries (2000)

Exploration:

• First person to fly in balloon and land in a parachute: Ramchandra Chatterjee
• First women to scale Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal (23 May 1984)
• First person to reach South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
• First women to reach south pole: Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu

Film and entertainment:

• First film to be made in India: Raja Harishchandra (1913 by Dadasaheb Falke)
• Sound film: Alam Ara (1931)
• Color film: Kisan Kanya (1937)
• First actress of Indian Cinema: Durgabai Kamat (1918)
• Dadasaheb Falke award: Devika Rani (1969)
• First government award for films: Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards (1937)
• First Indian film maker to get Bharat Ratna: Satyajit Ray (1992)
• Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Satyajit Ray (1992)
• First National film award for cinema: Shyamchi Aai (1954)
• First sponsored TV serial: Hum Log (started 7 July 1984)
• Actor to enact 10 roles: Kamal Haasan (Dashavtar)

Types of Cheques

A cheque is a document that orders a bank to pay money from the account. Here are the some types of cheques:

• Order Cheque: A cheque which is payable to a particular person or his order is called an order cheque.
• Bearer Cheque: A cheque which is payable to a person whosoever bears, is called bearer cheque.
• Blank Cheuqe: A cheque on which the drawer puts his signature and leaves all other columns blank is called blank cheque.
• Stale Cheque: The cheque which is more than three months old is a stale cheque.
• Multilated Cheque: If cheque torn into two or more pieces, it is termed as multilated cheque.
• Post Dated Cheque: If a cheque bears a date later than the date of issue, it is termed as post dated cheque.
• Open Cheque: A cheque which has not been crossed is called an open cheque. Even if a cheque and subsequently the drawer has cancelled the crossing at the request of the payee anf affxes his full signature with the words ' crossing cancelled pay cash', it becomes an open cheque.
• Crossed Cheque: A cheque which carries to parallel transverse lines across the face of the cheque with or without the words 'I and co', is said to be crossed.
• Gift Cheque: Gift cheques are used for offering presentations on occasions like birthday, wedding and such other situations. It is available in various denominations.
• Traveller's Cheque: It is an instrument issued by a bank for remittance of money from one place to another.

Quiz: Current Affairs 2

1. The Reserve Bank of India on 18 August 2014 constituted a 15 member inter-regulatory committee to monitor the growing phenomenon of shadow banking. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Committee?
Ans - P Vijaya Bhaskar
2. A Manipur court on 19 August 2014 ordered the release of Manipuri women Irom Sharmila, who has staged a 14 year hunger strike in protest at human rights abuses in Manipur. She began her fast on 4 November 200 after witnessing the killing of 10 people by the army at a bus stop near her home in Manipur. Her protests agaist the abuses allegedly committed by security forces are subject of which law, which has been opposed in the state?
Ans - Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)

3. What is the name of the Mission Director of the Director of Benefits Transfer (DBT) Scheme, who resigned from the post during august 2014?
Ans - S. Sudarshan
4. Indian on 18 August 2014 called off Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan slated to be held on 25 August 2014 at Islamabad. What was the reason given for calling off these talks?
Ans - Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit's meeting with Kashmiri separatist belonging to the Hurriyat

5. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 18 August 2014 said that he will soon leave the Ecuadorian Embassy he has been holed up for nearly two years to avoid his arrest. He has been living in which country' Ecuadorian Embassy which he wants to leave now?
Ans - Britain
6. With 16,100 MW wind power produced in 2013, China was ranked World's top wind power producing country in the recently released Renewable 2014 Global Status Report. What was India's rank in this report?
Ans - 5th

7. Who was the founder of the Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) which merged with the BJP on 18 August 2014?
Ans - Salkhan Murmu
8. Who will head the Indian Continent as the Chef-de-Mission for the oncoming 17th Asian Games to be held at Incheon, South Korea during Sept-Oct 2014?
Ans - Adille Sumariwala

Quiz: Current Affairs 1

Q.1 Who was appointed as Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA)?
Ans - Arvind Gupta, former Indian Foreign Service Office
Q.2 Who was awarded with Copley Medal 2014 by Royal Society of London?
Ans - Sir Alec Jefreys
Q.3 Name the author of the book 'Munger through the age'?
Ans - D P Yadav

Q.4 T V Gopalkrishnan who recently was chosen for the Sangita Kalanidhi award of Music Academy for 2014 an eminent exponent of the
Ans - Violinist
Q. 5 Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters was recently by which international agency
Ans - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Q. 6 The committee to look into the issue Cost Records and Cost Audit constituted by the Union Government on 19 July 2014 will be headed by
Ans - R S Sharma

Q. 7 River Baki was in news recently due to recovery of four dead bodies that led to tensions in State of
Ans - Assam
Q.8 Resolution 2165 adopted by the 15 member United Nations Security Council on 14 July 2014 is concerned with which war-torn country?
Ans - Syria
Q.9 Bab-a-Salam and Bab-al-Hawa re border crossing in which country through which recently UNSC allowed relief delivery to Syrian Citizens for 180 days?
Ans - Turkey
Q.10 The Union Civil Aviation Ministry on 7 July 2014 constituted an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) to examine the maximum potential of the indigenous GPS Navigation system. Name of the system?
Ans - GAGAN