Being an Indian is a matter of pride...It’s diverse culture& people make this country what it is. Let’s go through some amazing facts about this amazing country full of wonders...
• 100,000 new people are getting added to the Indian Middle Class every single day
• Tamil is one of the official languages of Singapore
• India and China together hold 20% of world’s arable (area suitable for a significant yield), creating half of the world’s rice and 30% of the world’s wheat
• India has 17.5% of the world’s population
• India has made it to the list of world’s biggest players in clean energy
• One of the most remarkable achievements in Global health is a polio-free India
• Indian Defense Achievements have been quite promising too. India has more aircraft carriers than China, launched numerous spy satellites, got its nuclear trade complete and a lot more
• 2015 is extremely promising in terms of low inflation, peaked growth, healthy stock markets and new opportunities coming in. The World Bank expects 6.4% growth in India in 2015
• Indian Army is the world’s third largest standing army comprising over 1.1 million men in uniform
• Indian healthcare is cheap and affordable because of the hard work done by Indian doctors who broke expensive treatments to the point where they’d be reduced in price and worthy
• India is also home to world’s cheapest skiing lessons which are taught at the slopes of Joshimath
• India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the U.S.
• Nearly 49% of the high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China
• 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India
• Expected to be among world’s top 10 wealth centers in the world, India’s total number of mobile phone subscribers has reached 930.20 million as of September 2014
• Snakes and Ladders originated in India.
• Diamonds were first mined in India.
• Rabindranath Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Bangladesh
• The world's largest producer of milk.
• Largest number of vegetarians in the world.
• The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle.
• Science day in Switzerland is dedicated to Ex-Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam
• Water on the moon was discovered by India
• The Indian national Kabaddi team has won all World Cups.
• Shampooing is an Indian concept
• Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference. It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man hours for completion and also weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants. A true engineering and architectural marvel.
• A floating post office...India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.