Unknown facts about india

vast India
statas as per german magazine
APJ Abdul Kalam
chess
takshila school
ISRO
Kumbh mela
ramesh babu
shani shingnapur
arshid ali khan
kodinhi
jatinga

1. Presented by : MEENAL GUPTA 80 TH BATCH OF ITT

2. UNKNOWN HAPPENINGS IN INDIA

3. Worlds largest democracy 4th largest economy 5,000 year old civilization Number system was invented in I ndia. Second largest english speaking nation. Second largest impoter of arms. India never invaded any country.

4. As per German Magazine 12% of Scientists in America are Indians. 36% of NASA employees are Indians. 34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians 28% of IBM employees are Indians 17% of INTEL employees are Indians 13% of XEROX employees are Indians

5. Science day in switzerland is celebrated on 26 th may as APJ Abdul Kalam visited switzerland on this day to honour them.

6. 90% of computers in world run on the chip made by indian - VINOD DHAM As per a report in Forbes magazine , July 1987 , Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software

7. Chess was invented in India. Chess is the sanskrit chaturangon meaning 4 members in an army which are elephants , horses, chariots, foot soldiers.

8. The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

9. I S R O (Indian Space Research Organisation ) has developed 1 st rocket with other organisation . India’s 1 st rocket was brought on cycle.

10. The kumb mela is a huge hindu religion festival takes place in every 12 yrs. In 2001, more than60 million people attended breaking the record for world’s biggest gathering.

11. An barber in India named Ramesh Babu gives his customers a decent trim for only $2 ? But he owns a Rolls Royce!

12. Shani shingnapur , a village in maharastra where all the houses, shops, halls never kept their valuables in lock & key . No theft has been reported yet in that village.

13. An Indian airline only hires women because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel.

14. Arshid Ali Khan, a 13 years old boy from Punjab is worshiped as god Hanuman. He is also referred as Balaji due to his 7 inch long tail. Local people takes blessings from him to cure their problems. A story was also published in the Daily Mail in UK.

15. A prison where prisoners can come and go as they want. The prisoners can also hold jobs. One prisoner is even a school teacher.

16. The village of Kodinhi situated about 35 km south of Calicut is home to about 2000 families. The village has a Muslim majority and is known for its very high rate of twin births. As of 2009 the village boasted of 200 set of twins  (440 individuals) and two sets of triplets officially. A local doctor though believes this number to be higher in the range of 300 to 350 pairs

17. The village of JATINGA in the Dima Hasao district of Assam is world famous for its phenomenon of bird suicides. Most of the migratory birds visiting the area never leave the village and just drop to their death on the streets. The case gets even inscrutable in the sense that these birds plummet to their death precisely between 06:00 p.m. to 09:30 p.m. on the moonless nights of September and October.

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