Incredible India

Incredible India

1.India, has world's largest democracy.
2.Since Independence, India has built 1.25 million miles of roads, raised steel output 50 times, cement 20 times. Is now 2nd-largest cycle producer.
3.It has the second-largest labour force. Is selfsufficent in grail and cloth, makes more than a million cars a year, has launched 65 satellites.
4. Foreigners outsource work, queue up for cheaper medical treatment, and pour in cash for better return.
5. RIL's Jamnagar is the world's largest grassroots refinery and petrochem complex. Hero Motocorp largest two-wheeler maker.
6. Churns out most films. Has the best delivery boys, the dabbawalas, with an efficency rating of 99.9999%
7.Registered companies in India totaled 7.13 lakh in 2005. As of August 1.46 lakh were dormant.
8.Chess was invented here. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus too. 'Place value system' and the decimal system developed in 100BC.
9.Value of 'pi' first calculated by Budhayana, who explained the concept of Pythagora's Theoram. e discoverd it long before Europeans.
10.Over 2,600 years ago, Sushrata, the Fathe of Surgery, and his team performed surgeries to remove cataract and urinary stones, & graft skin.
11.The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
12. At 129 m tonnes, India is No.1 milk producer, but imports skimmed powder in summers to meet demand.
13. India provide safety for more than 300,000 refugees from Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
14. Tirupati Temple is the world's largest pilgrimage destination. An average of 30,000 visitors donate $6m every day.
15. India has the largest number of Post Offices. The number of postal items, excluding mony orders, handled dropped from 14.2 b in 2001-02 to 4.3 b in 2008-09.
16. One-,2- &5-rupee notes are not being issued as their average life was less than a year & printing them was pointless.
17.As of 2007, India's bovine population was 304 million, but there were only 0.44 million donkeys.
18. The world's highest cricket ground is in chail,HP. Developed in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, This cricket pitch is 2,444 meters above sea level.
19. India recycles 60% of its plastic waste. The figure for Japan and China are 12% and 10%, respectively.
20. 31% households use kerosene to light up their homes, 2.9% for cooking.
21. The government started collecting data on rapes only in 1971. Since then, no.of recorded rapes has zoomed 873%.
22. 53.1% of households do not have latrine within premises.
23. 33.5% households draw drinking water from a handpump.
24. 46.5% households have mug floors, 29% have concrete roofs.
25. 1,448, or 31%, MPs & MLAs who contested In the past 5 years faced criminal charge.
26. BSE is ranked fifth in the number of electronic trades, is 3rd-largest index options exchange.
27.137-year-old BSE is also Asia's first stock exchange and world's No.1 in terms of number(5,000) of listed cos.