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- First broadcast :1927
- All India Radio founded in 1936
- Television started 1959
- Color TV started 1982
- Railways started 1853, 16 April
- First Electric Train 1925, February 23
- First issue of the postage stamps 1825, 25 March
- The first telegraph line 1851 (Calcutta and Diamond Harbor)
- First newspaper 1781 January 29 Hikki Calcutta Gazette
- First nuclear power station in 1969 in Tarapur
- First nuclear test 1974, 18 May
- First satellite 1975, 19 April
- Internet start 1995, August 15 (provided by BSNL)
- First air mail in India and the world (6 miles from Allahabad to Bamauli) 1911
- India’s first indigenously built submarine, Shalki
- India’s first newsprint factory established Nepanagar (M.P.)