Amazing Facts About India part 2

Here's a compiled list of Some amazing Indian facts: 

1)India has banned all captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed of non human persons.

2) India’s tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore.

3) India is the largest producer of films in the world.43) India is the largest milk producer in the world.

4) India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

5) To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.

6) Karmanasa River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans. There’s hardly any development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits because cooking food would require water!

7) Two major religions, Buddhism and Jainism, were established in India.

8) Chail in Himachal Pradesh is the highest cricket pitch in the world. It is situated at an elevation of 2444 meters (above the sea level).

9) The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide.

10) Sachin Tendulkar is the first cricker (he did so many firsts and you know all of them)

11) The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.

12) Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.

13) Today, India is the world’s third largest economy.

14) India is one of the only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).

15) The world’s largest road network is in India—over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
16) India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world.

17) So much so that Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country.

18)  KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu for India.

19) so did McDonalds, the world’s largest fast-food manufacturer.

20)Chai is India’s national drink.

21) India grows 1.2 million tons of mangoes every year, weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales

22) The state of Meghalaya is the wettest inhabited place of earth. 

23)India gave the world Yoga, that has existed for more than 5,000 years.

24)May 26 is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland in honour of former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, because on the day, Kalam visited the country.

25)Martial Arts was first created in India.

26)The world’s biggest family lives in India. One man, 39 wives and 94 children.

27)India is the world’s largest importer of arms.

28) But India has never invaded or attacked a country.