| Newspaper | 29 Jan 1781 (Hicky Calcutta Gazette) |
| First issue of Postal Stamp | 1825 (in Sind) |
| First Telegraph line | 1851 (Calcutta & Diamond Harbour) |
| Railways started | 16 April 1853 |
| First air mail in India & World Bumraulli to Allahabad (6 miles) | 1911 |
| Broadcasting started in India | 1927 |
| 1st electric train | 23 Feb 1925 |
| All India Radio established | 1936 |
| Television started | 1959 |
| First Atomic Power Station commissioned at Tarapur | 1969 |
| First nuclear test carried out | 18 May 1974 |
| India's first satellite, Aryabhata launched | 19 April 1975 |
| Colour Television started | 1982 |
| 1st metro trains in India | 1984 (Kolkata) |
| Internet came to India | 15 August 1995 (provided by BSNL) |
| India's first mission to Moon (Chandrayaan-1) launched | 22 October 2008 |
| India's first mission to Mars (Mangalyaan) launched | 05 November 2013 |
| India's first newsprint factory was set up at Nepanagar (MP) in | 1947 |
| India's first cement factory was set up in Chennai in | 1904 |
| India's first steel factory was set up in Jamshedpur in | 1907 |
| India's first cotton mill was set up in Bombay in | 1854 |