India after Independence

The milestones reached by India after the Independence.
15-August-1947
Jawarlal Nehru's speech "Tryst with Destiny",on the eve of Indian independence.
16-January-1950 Constitution of India came into force.

12-August-1952: First General Election held in India.

1954: First National Award for Cinema went to Shymachi Aai

1956 Durba Banerjee became the first woman pilot of Indian Airlines.

1958: 'Mother India' nominated for Oscar in the Best Foreign Languages Film category. 29 September

1959: First women to cross the English Channel was an Indian -Arathi Saha.

19 December 1961: Goa was liberated from the Portuguese rule.

1966: First Indian Miss World -Reita Faria.

1 November 1966: Chandigarh First planned city in India post-Independence

1967-1978: Green Revolution resulted in phenomenal increase in the inrease in the production of agriculture crops.

1968: India's IT Revolution: Tata Consultancy Services came into existence .

1969: India's Space Reasearch Organisation was established.

19-July-1969: Govt. nationalised 14 banks.

18-May -1974: India's first nuclear test carried out in Rajasthan's Pokhran .

12-Aug-1975: ISRO successfully launched Aryabhatta India's first unmanned indeigenous satellite.

1976: First Woman at Antarctica: Mehar Moss.

18 December 1976: The 42nd amendment to our constitution introduced the word secular

1978: India's first test tube baby.Durga was born after in vitro fertilisation.

1982: Asian Games in Delhi brought colour to television.

4-Feb-1983: Underdogs India beat 2 times champions West Indiesto win the cricket World Cup.

1983: Oscar to Bhanu Athaiya-Costume Designer(Gandhi)

12-Aug-1984: Rakesh Sharma first Indian and to venture space.

23-May-1984: First Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Dec-1984: Automobile Revolution : The first Maruthi 800 rlled out of the factory .

1984: THE SITCOM REVOLUTION : Hum log aired on Doordarshan 1988: voting age in India is changed from 21 to 18.

2-Oct-1988: First telecast of Mahabharat on television.

1988: Surekha Yadav The first woman train driver of passenger train.

1989: First lady Justice of the Supreme court -Justice M Fathima Beevi

1990: Morarji Desai was conferred with pakistan's first civilian award Nishan _e Pakistan.

1991: Param 8000 India's first super Computer was unveiled .

30-Mar-1992: Satyajit Ray receives Special Oscar Award for longtime achievement in filmmaking.

1994: Flight Lt.Kaur Deol first woman pilot of the Indian Air force to fly solo.

1995: First mobile phone call made in India.

1995:
The first dail up internet connection introduced in India ,provide internet in 6 cities. 1995: India's Arvind Mills launched its range of branded Indian jeans. 1998: Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car ,the Indica.

1999: Infosys listed on NASDAQ stock exchange.

20-feb-1999: Atal Bihari vajpayee,the then PM ,took a bus to Lahore from Delhi. .

10-Aug-1999: Pokran -II series of five nuclear bomb test explosions.

2000: Karanam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to get a medal in the Olympics.

2000: Hosted by Amithabh Bachchan,the season 1 of 'kaun Banega' Crorepathi' was first aired.

2005: Information became an achievable rights with the RTI Act becoming a law.

2004: Sania Mirza won her first prestigeous Women Tennis Association Title .

2007: India's first commercial rocket was fired into space.

2008 October: Chandrayaan-1 India's first mission to moon was successfully launched.

2009: A R Rahman,Gulzar won Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire; Smile Pinki also won Award.

24-Feb-2010: Sachin Tendulkar scored first ever double century in ODI Cricket.

2011 Aprill: India won the ICC Cricket World cup.

2012: Saina Nehwal first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics.

3-May-2013: Indian cinema completes 100 years.

2014: India creates history as. Mangalyaan enters Mars orbit in first attempt.

25-May-2014: 13 yers old Malavath Purna became the youngest person ever to scale the Everest.

1-Oct-2014: MC Mary Kom became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in Asian Games at Incheon.

24-Mar-2015: Section 66A of the IT Act declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 21-June-2015: First International Yoga Day celebrated.

26-Jun-2015: Satnam singh becomes the first Indian player drafted into the NBA. 1-Aug-2015: Bangladesh and India exchanged 162 adversely held enclaves.