The Firsts

First Motorcycle Manufactured In India ----> Enfield Bullet In 1955 First Scooter Manufactured In India ---->Lambretta In 1956 First 5 Gear Motorcycle In India ----> First 4-Stroke Scooter In India ----> First Cruiser Bike In India ----> Shaolin In 1997 Bajaj Legend In 1998

Bajaj Eliminator

First Brand To Sponsor Grand Prix In India ----> John Player Special First Car Maker To Introduce Self Starter ----> Cadillac

First Indigeneous Small Car In India ----> Tata Indica First India's Euro-Ii Complete Car ----> Daewoo Matiz Hindustan 10

First Indian Built(Not Fully Indigeneous) Car Hit The Road ----> First Private Radio Taxi Service In India ----> First Product To Have Barcode ----> Cool Cabs

Wrigley's Spearmint Gum Oprah Winfrey In 1992

First Women To Top Forbes Annual Richest List ----> First Indian Cover Girl Of Cosmopolitan ---->

Malaika Arora

First Paperless Newspaper In India ----> Thenewstoday.Com First Illustrated Tabloid In Britain ----> The Daily Mirror The Times,London

First Newspaper To Introduce The Personal Column In Its Classified Ads ---->

First Book To Sell A Million Copies In 19th Century American Classic ----> Uncle Tom's Cabin First Country To Enact A Modern Copyright Statute ----> Great Britain First Economist To Advocate 'The Division Of Labour' ----> Fisrt Model Of 'Harley Davidson' In The Year ----> 1904 Adam Smith

First Non-Sportsman Client Of Img In India ----> Harsha Bhogle First Branded Product Launched By 'Dabur' ----> Dabur Amla Hair Oil First 'Talking Washing Mashine' ----> Electrolux Kelvinator

First Company To Manufacture Electric Car In India ----> Reva Car Company First Indian Company To Enter Fortune 500 ----> Indian Oil Corporation First Private Sector Indian Company To Enter Fortune 500 ----> Reliance Industries First Indian Company To Earn More Than 10000 Crore Profit In Its Financial Year ----> First Black To Win The Noble Prize For Economics ----> Sir Arthur Levis Ongc

First Management Theorist To Recieve The Noble Prize For Economics ----> First Indian Cricketer To Model For An Ad Of Brylcreem ----> First Indian Company To Advertise In 'Time' ----> Bajaj

Herbert Simon

Farookh Engineer

First Company To Produce Stainless Steel Razor Blades Esigned To Use Over And Over ----> Wilkinson First Indian Bank To Be Listed In The Nyse ----> Icici First Indian Public Sector Bank To Enter Credit Card Market ----> Central Bank Of India First Bank To Launch A Card Specially For Doctors In India ----> First Beer Brewed In India In 1825,Where? ----> Shimla First Insurance Company To Set Up In India ----> Calcutta Insurance Company First President Of Aituc ----> Lala Lajpat Rai Sbi

First Indian Union Finance Minister To Present A 'Vote-On' Account ----> Chintaman D Deskmukh First Indian Ad Agency ----> Ragmas Antwerp,Belgium In 1531 Lata Mangeshkar

First City To Have A European Stock Exchange ----> First Indian Singer To Earn Royalty For Records ----> First Company To Create 'Walkman' ----> First Indian Filmstar To Endorse Lux Ads ----> Sony

Lila Chitnis Charlie Chaplin

First Hollywood Actor To Sign A Million Dollar Contract ----> First Liquid Nail Polish Brand ----> Cutex

First Company To Produce Make-Up For Movie Use ----> Max Factor First Airline To Have 'Business Class' Category ----> First Ever Hindi Movie To Be Insured ----> First Satellite Broadcast Begin In India ----> Taal 1991 Saras British Airways

Fisrt Civillian Aircraft To Be Designed And Manufactured In India ----> First Low Cost Airline In The World ----> Southwest Airways(Us) First Country To Mine Diamond In The World ----> India

First Money Minted In Hawaii In The Year ----> 1847,March ,10th The First Telephone Call Made By Alexander Graham Bell In The Year ----> 1876 1967

The First Confirmed Octuplets Are Born In Mexico(That's 8 Babies) In The Year ----> First Vending Machines Sold Which Edible Product ----> Chewing Gum First Publicly Sold Tea,Where? ----> Garway's Coffee House,London

First Tea Company In India ----> The Assam Company Ltd First Airline To Have Airhostesses ----> Klm(Dutch) First Internet Company To Figure In The Annual Fortube 500 ----> First Person To Introduce The Silver Rupee ----> Sher Shaw Suri First Person To Be The Bllionnaire (Dollars) ----> John D Rockfeller First Sportsman From The Ussr To Appear In A Western Commercial ----> First Ever Indian Company To Sponsor A Tournament Overseas ----> First Professional Tennis Star ----> Suzanne Lenglen Pierre Cardin Gary Kasparov America Online(Aol)

Itc,Sharjah Wills Trophy

First To Make Designer Clothes Available As A Ready-To-Wear Collection ----> First Neon Sign Blinked In Which City ----> Paris,France

First India's Iso-9002 Certified Retail Outlet ----> Landmark,Chennai First Country To Ban The Import,Sale And Manufacture Of Chewing Gum ----> First Filter Cigaratte ----> Rothmans Maharashtra Singapore

First Indian State To Ban Smoking In Its Offices ---->

First Company To Manufacture 'Dinky Toys' ----> Meccano First Xerox Model ----> Xerox 914 First Female 'Virtual Newscaster' In The World ----> Ananova

First Product To Make The Cover Of 'Time' ----> Cocacola First Commercial Computer Developed In Japan ----> First Major Book Of Amartya Sen ----> Facom 100

Collective Choice And Social Welfare

First Governor Rbi ----> Osborne A Smith First Local Programming Initiative In India In The Form Of Reality Show 'Everest Se Takkar' Launched By Which Tv Channel ----> National Geographic Channel First Quartz Alarm Clock In The World ----> Sieko Mcgraw Hill Stanford University Network Mukta Arts Pvt. Ltd

First Customized Publishing System In The World ----> First 3 Letters Of Sun Microsystems Stand For ---->

First Indian Bollywood Company To Raise Money Through 'Ipo' ---->