India has a long history to tell about itself since independent till now. On the occasion of India’s 70th Independence Day, here are some interesting facts related to India.
1) India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
2) India is the world’s largest producer of tea, milk and mangoes and also the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world’s major food staples.
3) The world’s largest road network is in India-over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
4) With around 155,618 post offices and over 566,000 employees, India has the largest postal network in the world.
5) India Railways is the single largest civilian employer in the world, with over a million employees.
6) State Bank of India has the maximum number of branches in the world, with the number being over 15,000 and counting.
7) India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
8) Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet.
9) In September 2009, India’s ISRO Chandrayaan- 1 using its Moon Mineralogy Mapper detected water on the moon for the first time.
10) India is second only to the USA when it comes to speaking English with around 125 million people speaking the language, which is only 10% of our population. This is expected to grow by quite a margin in the coming years.
11) At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world’s population will be from India in the next year or so.
12) India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
13) Today, India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!
14) India invented the ruler, shampoo, discovered the number zero, the value of pi, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, cataract surgery, plastic surgery, diamond mining etc.
15) India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.