- Dadasaheb Phalke Award
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. The Award is given to a prominent personality from the Indian film industry, noted and respected for significant contributions to Indian cinema. Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich was the first awardee in 1969.
- Dronacharya Award
Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. O.M. Nambiar for athletics , Om Prakash Bhardwaj for boxing and BB Bhagwat for wrestling were the first recipients in 1985.
- Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.
Nobel Prizes:-
The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968.
The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
-Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen received the first Nobel Physics Prize for his discovery of X-rays.
The first Nobel laureates for the Economics Prize were Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".
-The Swedish Academy chose the poet Sully Prudhomme for the first Nobel Prize in Literature.
-The first Nobel Physiology or Medicine Prize went to the German physiologist and microbiologist Emil von Behring who developed an antitoxin to treat diphtheria.
-Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff of Netherlands won the first Nobel Chemistry Prize for "discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions".
-The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant. Passy got it for being one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and also the main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress. Dunant received it for his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross.
-Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his "Geetanjali". He was also the first Asian to win the prize.
-Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930.
-Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968 (US citizen of Indian origin)
-Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979 (Indian citizen of Albanian origin)
-Nobel Prize in Physics: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1983 (US citizen of Indian origin)
-Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
-Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (USA citizen of Indian origin)
- Nobel Peace Prize : Kailash Satyarthi in 2014.
[Awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai] "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
1st president of Indian Republic : Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1st Vice president of Indian Republic : Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1st Defence Minister of India: Baldev Singh
1st Indian Commander-in-Chief of Army staff: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
1st Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
1st Indian Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee
1st Chief of Naval Staff : Admiral Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
1st Indian Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D Katari