Correct Answer : Jyoti Basu and Sukh Ram
With Jyoti Basu as chief minister of West Bengal making India's first cell-phone call to Sukh Ram, the communications minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao government. The call made in July 1995, between Writer's Building in Kolkata and Sanchar Bhavan in Delhi was carried on the network of Mobile Net.
Correct Answer : 15th August,1995
VSNL first launched the internet in India on August 15, 1995
Correct Answer : V Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan, byname of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, (born 1952, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India), Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes.
Correct Answer : Tarapur, Maharashtra
The Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) is located near Boiser in the Thane District of Maharashtra. Begun as India's first atomic power project, the Indian Government decided to utilize boiling water reactors (BWRs) for the plant. On 8 May 1964.
Correct Answer : Apsara
Apsara is the oldest of India's research reactors. The reactor was designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and built with assistance from the United Kingdom (which also provided the initial fuel supply consisting of 80 percent enriched uranium). Apsara first went critical on 4 August 1956.
Correct Answer : Darjeeling
A project with capacity of 130 kW installed at Sidrapong ( Darjeeling ) in the year 1897 was the first hydropower installation in India .
Correct Answer : Sayed Z Qasim
Dr Syed Zahur Qasim who led the first Indian expedition to Antarctica still remembers the events with a twinkle in his eyes. It was a proud moment for India.
Correct Answer : 26 September 1942
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research abbreviated as CSIR was established by the Government of India in 26 September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the largest research and development organisation in India.
Correct Answer : Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was the Founder Director (and later first Director General) of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) who is credited with establishing twelve national laboratories in as many years.
Correct Answer : Prime Minister of India
