• 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.)