Indira Gandhi was the first woman defence minister of India from 30 November 1975 to 20 December 1975. She was again defence minister of India from 14 January 1980 to15 January 1982.

Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first woman Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.

Indira Gandhi was the first woman finance minister of India from 17 July 1969 to 27 June 1970.

M. Fathima Beevi was also the first muslim woman to be appointed by of the higher judiciaries in country. She served the office from 6 October 1989 to 29 April 1992.

Sarojini Naidu served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh from 15 August 1947 to 2 March 1949.

After receiving degree in law from Bombay University in 1888, Cornelia Sorabji was the first woman in India to practice law.

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was the health minister of India from 16 August 1947 to 16 April 1957.

V. S. Ramadevi was also the only woman CEC of India till date.

Mamata Banerjee was the minister from 22 May 2009 to 19 May 2011.

Meira Kumar was the speaker of the Lok Sabha from 4 June 2009 to 18 May 2014.

"Ghumot, a traditional percussion instrument of Goa is made from an earthen vessel.

Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani has been posthumously awarded ‘Ashok Chakra’, India’s highest peace time gallantry award for his role in a counter-insurgency operation in Kashmir in 2018.

Sushil Chandra, an IRS-IT officer of the 1980 batch, has assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India.

Pramod Chandra Mody, a 1982 batch Indian Revenue Service succeeded Sushil Chandra, who has been appointed as the EC on 15th Feb 2019.

The agreement was signed on during Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's visit to the Nordic country, Sweden.

February 13 was chosen because the United Nations Radio, the United Nation’s international broadcasting service was established on February 13, 1946.

The "e-Aushadhi" portal has been launched by MoS of AYUSH Mr. Shripad Yesso Naik for online licensing of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs.

Indian army has demonstrated demonstrated its artillery firepower by using ultra light Howitzers and indigenous Swathi weapon-locating radar at the annual 'Exercise Topchi 2019'.

The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has recently signed a letter of intent with the Norwegian government to launch the India-Norway Marine Pollution Initiative.

Siddhartha Lal is the MD & CEO of Eicher Motors Ltd.

To mark the birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan, who took great interest in expansion and development of the native system of Unani medicine, Ministry of AYUSH adopted February 11 as the Unani Day.

The Hollong Modular Gas Processing Plant (HMGPP) is located in Margherita, Tinsukia district of Assam. The gas produced from this field will be supplied to consumers in the North-East region, includiding Brahmaputra Crakcer and Polymer Ltd.

46 countries in the "AMAN-19", a multinational martime exercise with the slogan "Together for Peace".

The Himalayan Cloud Observatory has been set up in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. This is the second observatory in the country to monitor cloud activities by the Indian Science and Technology (IST) Department and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Along with English and Arabic, the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has decided to include Hindi as the third official language.

Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has been elected as the chairman of the African Union (AU) at the continental body's summit in Ethiopia.

The 2nd ASEAN-India Youth Summit 2019 was held in Guwahati on the theme “Connectivity is the pathway to shared prosperity” from 03-06 February 2019.

PM Modi inaugurated the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar, Haryana. It is the first medical college by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in North India.

Noted historian Sanjay Subramanyam has won the 2019 Dan David Prize of Israel for his work on inter-cultural encounters between Asians, Europeans, and people of North and South America during the early modern era.

The Union Govt has approved set up of an unified authority for regulating all financial services in International Financial Services Centres (IFSC) through IFSCs Authority Bill 2019.

The National Deworming Day (NDD) is an initiative of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to make every child in the country worm free.

Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honour) has been awarded to Father Francois Laborde of West Bengal.

To create the awareness on Braille used by approximately 1.3 billion people having some form of vision impairment, UN has observed 4th January 2019 as the first-ever World Braille Day, on the birthday of Braille script inventor Louis Braille.

The Singapore based Asia Competitiveness Institute's (ACI) EDB index, Andhra Pradesh topped the list followed by Maharashtra and Delhi.

Telangana High Court came into existence on 1st January 2019 and Governor of Telangana ESL Narasimhan administered the oath of Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan as Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.

The National Health Agency has been dissolved and restructured as the National Health Authority to effectively implement Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Now the National Health Authority will have full autonomy to implement PM-JAY.

The HQ of the North Central Railway is located in Allahabad (Prayag).

North Koel river is located in Jharkhand, the Mandal Dam project will help around one lakh eleven thousand hectares of agricultural land in Jharkhand and Bihar to get irrigation facilities.

Saurabh Kumar is a 1982-batch Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer. IOFS is a multi-disciplinary composite cadre consisting of technical - engineers & technologist and non-technical- administrative officers. Technical posts comprise about 87% of the total posts. Another civil service category named as Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service (IOFHS) is served by health professionals.

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has recently approved the establishment of a Centre for Classical Language at the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University in Tirur, Kerala.

Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic's Swiss team has won the 31st edition of the Hopman Cup tournament 2019 in Perth, Australia.

The Government of India (GoI) has amalgamated three Regional Rural Banks (RRB) -- Punjab Gramin Bank, Malwa Gramin Bank and Sutlej Gramin Bank -- into a single RRB with effect from January 1.

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has set up an inter-ministerial consultant note to rename Indian Forest Service as Indian Forest and Tribal Service.

Following sub-categories of people will be exempted from it (state may also decide as their own criteria): a) People owning over 5 acres of land, b) People owning a residential plot of more than 1,000 square feet, c) People owing plots of land more than 100 square yards in notified areas, and people owning plots of land more than 200 square yards in non-notified areas, d) People with annual incomes exceeding Rs. 8 lakh. Gujarat became the first state to implement this reservation measure.

The scheme, being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare comprises of two components namely National Programme for Bovine Breeding (NPBB) and National Mission on Bovine Productivity (NMBP).

Previously, under the right to education act, no state government could allow any schools to fail students up to class 8. Now, it's up to the state government to decide as per the latest amendment.

A currency swap is an agreement of foreign exchange between two parties to exchange a given amount of money for another and giving back the swapped money after a period of time.

In response to the petition by Shantantu Kumar, that has sought cancellation of 2017 SSC examination due to alleged tampering and leaking of question papers, SC has formed a three-member committee to suggest reform in competitive examinations. Nandan Nilekani & Vijay P Bhatkar are the members of the committee and SC has asked advocate Prashant Bhusan, appearing for the petitioner to name the third member.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed a 5-member committee headed by Nandan Nilekani to suggest ways to improve digital payments, review the existing status of digitization of payments in the country, identify the current gaps in the ecosystem and suggest ways to bridge them

Madhya Pradesh government has proposed to set up Adhyatmik Vibhag (Spiritual Department) by merging its Anand Vibhag (Happiness Department), Religious Trust and Endowment Department, Directorate of Religious Trust and Endowment, Madhya Pradesh Teerth Evam Mela Pradhikaran and Rajya Anand Sansthan.

The AI-Powered robot 'USTAAD' will scrutinize parts of train coaches in real time and transmit them over a WiFi connection.

A capital market is a financial market in which long-term debt (over a year) or equity-backed securities are bought and sold. The Panda Bond will be denominated in Chinese Yuan.

NALSA works in close coordination with the various State Legal Services Authorities, District Legal Services Authorities, and other agencies for a regular exchange of relevant information, monitoring and updating on the implementation and progress of the various schemes.

Rishabh Pant becomes the first Indian wicket-keeper to claim 20 catches in the 'Boxing Day Test' in Melbourne against Australia on December 30.

Arunodoi Kendra of Assam are registered as Common Service Center (CSC).

As per the data from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, 23 state and Central universities and colleges offering B.Ed courses were found not recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education.

The amendment provides for insertion of section 10A in the principal Act to power centre and state governments to recognize trade unions and Federation of Trade Unions at Central as well as State level.

Dikki Bandi MP Stadium is located in Tura, Meghalaya.

For the second time, Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy be defeating Saurashtra by 78 runs in the final match of the 2018–19 season held at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.

Opener Smriti Mandhana hammered the fastest fifty for India in the first T20I against New Zealand in Wellington in just 24 deliveries.

World Pulses Day was celebrated for the first time on February 10 2019 to recognize the contribution of Pulses to sustainable food production and towards food security and nutrition.

DD Arunprabha is the 24th Satellite channel operated by Doordarshan which will showcase the rich tradition and diversity of local culture of Arunachal Pradesh.

The Sela pass tunnel will be constructed by the Border Roads Organization. The project that seeks to reduce travel hour from Tezpur to Tawang by one hour, involves the construction of a road for a total distance of 12.04 km which consist of two tunnels of 1790 and 475 meters.

The 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Convention on the conservation of migratory species (CMS) will be held in Gujarat next year.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has prepared the report titled ‘The Future of Rail’ in association with the International Union of Railways (UIC).