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2. 1. The population of India is 1.3 billion or 1,350,438,098
2. India is predicted to pass China's population by 2028
3. India is the 7th largest country and the largest
democracy in the world
4. There over 20 different official languages spoken in
different parts of India
5. The name 'India' is derived from Indus
6. According to The Guinness Book Of World Records, India
has the third highest number of record applications in the
world
3. 7. India is the only country that has a bill of rights for cows
8. India has the largest number of vegetarians in the world
9. India has the largest postal network in the world
10. India has the largest film industry in the world
11. After United States & China, India has the third largest active
army
4. 12. The gathering of Kumbh Mela is so large that is visible from the space
13. Mawsynram receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world
14. India is the second largest English speaking country in the world with
125,226,449 English speakers
15. India has 300,000 active mosques which is more than any Islamic nation
16. We owe India the decimal number system and the number zero
17. First Rocket made in India was Transported by a Cycle
18. Shampoo was invented in India
19. Switzerland celebrates science day on the 26th of May, honouring Abdul Kalam
20. Chess was invented in India before the 6th century AD
5. 21. India is the world's largest milk producer, with over 16% of global
production
22. India's road network is the second largest with 4,865,000 miles of roads
constructed
23. The Highest Cricket Ground in the World, at a level of 2,144 metres
above sea level in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
24. In 1980, the first satellite of India was transported on a bullock cart for
testing
25. Indian railways employ more than a million people
26. India was one of the riches countries in the world before the British
invaded
6. 27. The Himalayas Have 9 out of 10 World's Highest Peaks
28. Water on the moon was discovered by India
29. The world's highest rail bridge is in Jammu Kashmir, India (1,178
feet over the river Chenab)
30. USB was developed by an Indian-American computer architect
31. Bandra-Worli sea link (Mumbai) has steel wires equal to Earth's
circumference
32. The Indian national Kabaddi team has won all World Cups
33. India's first President, Dr Rajendra Prasad, only took 50% of his
salary. Toward the end of his term, he only took 25%
34. Kerala consumes the most liquor out of any state in India
35. Only 3% of Indians pay their income tax
7. 36. India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.
37. More than a million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live
on less than two dollars a day. An estimated 35% of India’s population
lives below the poverty line.
38. Ganga is the longest river in India, flowing through a length of
2525 km
39. Calculus and Trigonometry came from India
40. The biggest family in the world is from India- 39 wives, 94
children, and 33 grandchildren. What?
8. 41. India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations
Peacekeeping Missions
42. Over 4700 daily newspapers in more than 300 languages are produced in India.
43. The largest wholesale spice market of Asia is in India – Khari Baoli, New Delhi.
44. India has a spa just for elephants, located in Kerala
45. Kanchenjunga, with an altitude of 8,586 meters, is the highest mountain peak
in India
46. The Number of People Travelling in the Indian Railways Every Day is Equal to
the Population of Australia
47. India has a mysterious anti-gravity hill, in Ladakh, called Magnetic Hill
48. Most historians agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found
in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts
9. 49. Samosas, the much-loved Indian snack, are banned in Somalia
50. The City Montessori School in Lucknow is the world's largest school in terms of
the number of students- 9,437 students and 2,500 teachers, as of 2011
51. The human calculator, Shakuntla Devi, was given this title after she
demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 ×
2,465,099,745,779, picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds
52. Yoga originated from India and is still in existence for over 5000 years
53. Despite budgetary constraints, India's space program is one of the top 5 space
programs in the world
54. Actor Ben Kingsley's birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is
of Indian descent
10. 55. The Indian culture is one of the oldest in the world, going back to about
4,500 years
56. Rabindranath Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Bangladesh
57. Dhyan Chand was offered German citizenship- After defeating Germany
8-1 in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Major Dhyan Chand, the wizard of hockey,
was summoned by Hitler
58. Only for India, KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu
59. Snakes and ladders – the game, was invented in India in the
13th century by a poet saint Gyandev
60. Freddie Mercury was of Indian descent
61. Langar at the Golden Temple Amritsar feeds up to 100,000 people a day
for free
11. 62. The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at
Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-
tonne piece of granite.
63. India was once the hub of Buddhism and emperor Ashoka helped spread
it around the world, particularly South East Asia
64. Astronaut Rakesh Sharma said India looks saare jahaan se achcha from
space
65. Coming second to New Zealand, India has the highest population of
sheep in the world (75,000,000)
66. 90 countries from all over the world buy software from India
67. The river dolphins of the Ganges is the national aquatic animal of India.
12. 68. The Himalayan blue sheep is found only in India
69. More than $6 million is donated to the Vishnu temple in the city of
Tirupathi. It was built in the 10th century
70. The Pentium Chip was invented by an Indian
71. In the 100,000 years of Indian history, it has never invaded any other
country
72. Havell's is purely an Indian brand & named after its first owner
73. India is home to around 1300 species of beautiful birds
74. World's First Hospital Train - the Lifeline Express a.k.a the Jeevan
Rekha Express is the world's first hospital train taking its services ranging
from surgeries to cancer treatment to remote villages.
13. 75. The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than
10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The
University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest
achievements of ancient India in the field of education
76. Diamonds were first mined in India
77. Back in the days, the India five-rupee coin was smuggled all the way to
Bangladesh and was used to make razors
78. Benaras, now known as Varanasi is the oldest continuously inhabited city in
the world. Buddha had also visited it
79. The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000
years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word
'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'
80. A special polling station is set up for a lone voter in the middle of Gir Forest
14. 81. Banjaran was the first folk album of India that contained folk
songs from Gujrat and Rajasthan
82. The veena is a beautiful instrument that was first made in India
83. The Ladybirds was the first India band that only had women
84. The tabla too is a musical instrument that was made first in India.
Gandharva Mahavidyalaya was the first music school in India
85. Ganesh Chaturthi is held in reverence of Lord Ganesha and is a
popular festival throughout India, more so in Mumba
15. 86. Karwa Chauth is a festival that Hindu women in the North celebrate,
where they pray for their husbands’ longevity
87. Karnataka is famous for its Bisi Bele bath and pulyogare
88. The state of Haryana produces over 60% of the basmati rice in India
89. Tamil Nadu is famous for its Pongal
90. Dum biryani was originally a money-saving dish that was engineered by
the Nawab of Awadh to feed the poor
91. By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the
world’s second largest after China
92. 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India
93. Two million people of Indian origin live in the U.S
16. 94. India sends more students to U.S. colleges than any country in the world. In
2004-2005, over 80,000 Indian students entered the U.S. China sent only 65,000
students during the same time
95. The Bombay stock exchange lists more than 6,600 companies only after NYSE
96. Dolphins are treated as ' non human persons ' in India
97. Nearly 49% of the high-tech start-ups in silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.
are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans
98. There where no plastic bags in India before 1985
99. India is the world’s number one producer of vegetarian cheese
100. The longest station name on the Indian Railways is
Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta
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