INTERESTING FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT INDIA

1. Indian Railways have maximum no. of employees in the world that is about 1.6 million also about 5 Billion people travel by Indian railways in a year.
2. India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India’s wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
3. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982
4. India has no National Language. Hindi is an official language used in many regions, English is also commonly used in many regions.
5. The name “India” comes from the Indus River, which is where earliest settlers made their homes. The Indus valley is one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations.
6. India is the world’s largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.
7. The world’s biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.
8. India was once a continent. More than 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, most of what is now India was an island.
9. India is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of mangoes. More than 40% of the world’s annual output of mangoes are grown in India, far ahead of the competition from China, Thailand and Bangladesh.
10. Mother Teresa first donned her famous sari in 198; it’s now the uniform for nuns in her order.
11. Mumbai’s dabbawallahs deliver over 2,00,000 lunch boxes by bike and train from home to office daily
12. The state of Meghalaya, northeast India’s “adobe of clouds”, is the wettest inhabited place on earth.
13. Tea had been growing in India for centuries before the British began its commercial cultivation.
14. The Himalayas contain nine of the world’s ten highest peaks.
15. Alcohol consumption is banned in five Indian States; the drinking age varies from 18 to 30.
16. Bollywood is the world’s largest film industry, followed by Nigeria’s Nollywood and Hollywood.
17. 80% of India’s population are Hindu, 13% are Muslim and millions are Sikh, Jain or Christian.
18. In rural Bihar, Nalanda, one of the world’s most ancient universities, is being rebuilt.
19. India produces a staggering 4700 daily papers in over 300 languages, plus39,000 journals & weeklies.
20. Khari Baoli, in New Delhi, is Asia’s largest wholesale spice market.