Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania ( H J Kania) took oath of office on August 14th, 1947 as the First Chief Justice of Independent India and held the post until November 06th, 1951.
H.J. Kania was conferred Knighthood in 1943.
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the highest-ranking Judge in the Supreme Court of India and thus holds the highest Judicial position in India.
Mithu Chowdhury from Kolkata was crowned as India’s first ‘Dance India Dance (DID) Super Mom ‘.
‘ Super Mom ‘ is a new season of India’s biggest dance realty show.
Nagaland became the first state in the country to use a high tech voter record system. The system is aptly called ‘ Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
This was introduced and used successfully by the Election Commission of India for the first time, in the by-election to the Noksen Assembly constituency in Nagaland. September 04th, 2013 .
Barista Lavazza, a chain of espresso bars opened its first Indian outlet in Basant Lok, New Delhi. February 2000.
India born Barista entered the market in 1997 and was later taken over by the Italian Lavazza (Italy’s largest coffee company and the 6th largest coffee roaster in the world).
Building on its Italian heritage – The Barista Coffee Company has over 200 Barista Lavazza Espresso Bars and Barista Lavazza Cremes in over 30 cities across India.
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar fondly remembered as ‘Dadasaheb Mavalankar’ was elected as the first speaker of Independent India’s ‘First Lok Sabha. November 17th, 1947 .
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee , OBE was the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force. April 01st, 1954.
Vodafone India, in a unique initiative for women empowerment, launched the First ‘ Vodafone Angel Store ‘ at Yamuna Nagar in Haryana on Wednesday -September 03rd, 2013.
Vodafone Angel Stores are Vodafone retail outlets managed and run entirely by women employees.
Vodafone also launched three Vodafone Mini Angel Stores in Ambala Cant, Jagadhvi, Ambala city, providing more employment opportunities for Women.
Sukumar Sen served as the First Chief Election Commissioner of India for the period March 21st, 1950 to December 19th, 1958.
Under his leadership the Election Commission successfully administered and oversaw Independent India’s first two general elections in 1951-51 and subsequently in 1957.
Nokia launched the Nokia 114 model, the first ever device with Urdu language capability / option in India.
It was launched at an event by Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology in the presence of P.Balaji, MD Nokia India in New Delhi. The Hon’ble Minister handed over the first Nokia 114 to Muzaffer Ali, noted filmmaker, poet, a revivalist and a social worker.
The launch is a part of Nokia’s strategy for democratising the reach of mobile telephones. India has over 15 crore urdu speaking people making it one of the largest urdu speaking populations in the world.
Parle Agro has revealed that it is re-entering the fizzy drinks market with ‘ Cafe Cuba ‘ – India’s first fizzy coffee – the beverage is a combination of roasted coffee beans and carbonated fizz. The product was unveiled on Tuesday, September 24th, 2013.
Exactly 2 decades ago in 1993, Parle Agro sold its carbonated beverages businesses with iconic brands Thums Up, Limca, Gold Spot and Citra to Coca-Cola Co.which included a non-compete agreement.
It currently sells Frooti and Appy soft drinks and is re-entering the market with a planned launch in early 2014 with India’s first fizzy coffee – Cafe Cuba which is not being branded as a soda. The company has 14 factories in India which will produce Cafe Cuba.
Parle Agro, the Mumbai headquartered company has a presence in about 44 countries worldwide. Apart from soft drinks the company also sells packaged drinking water ‘Bailey’, baked wheat snacks ‘Hippo’ brand and ‘Softease’ toffees.