Some New Intresting Facts of India
INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age )
* The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
* The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
* Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
* The’ place value system’ and the ‘decimal system’ were developed in 100 BC in India.
* The first six Mogul Emperor’s of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.
* The World’s First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ‘ 80-tonne ‘ piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola
* India is…….the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
* Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
* Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
* The value of “pi” was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
* Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
* Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )
* 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.
* Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
* Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
* The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP[1] and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP)
* India has get No. 9 position in the world’s Science and Technology map this year. With it’s output of S&T systems growing at a significant 12 per cent as against the global average of just four per cent it has reached this spot.
“We have overtaken Spain this year to stand at No. 9, one rank up from last year,” Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan has said. India was ranked 15th in S&T systems output in the year 2002
* India has slipped to the fifth position in terms of global steel production with a 32.5 mn tonnes output in the first six months of this 2010
* Riding over robust domestic market demand, India has now overtaken US to become the world’s second largest consumer of natural rubber after China
* India has retained the No.1 position in the ICC Test Championship table after the annual update and is now 11 rating points clear of second team
* Global Manufacturing Competence, India has been ranked second, ahead of the US and South Korea, a report by Deloitte has said
* India has emerged as one of the world’s top ten countries in industrial production as per United Nations Industrial Development Organization
* India is currently home to about 1.15 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth’s population
* Economy
Gross Domestic Product: 1,217.5 billion US dollars
Source: World Bank, 2009
Gross Domestic Product (PPP): 3,388.5 billion international dollars
Source: World Bank, 2009
* India is now the world’s largest youth mobile market with 281 million youth owning a mobile phone
* India has the fifth largest installed power capacity on the world (the first four are – US, Japan, China and Russia –in that order), and is one of the top power consumers. India has an installed power capacity of approximately 150 MW (2009), which is 4% of the global capacity. The per capita power consumption (per year) in India is about 720 KWh (or units), which is less than 5% of the per capita consumption in USA, and less than 20% than that of China. The global per capita consumption of power is about 2,340 KWh (Units).
* Development and economic growth are huge priorities for India’s government, but according to an Al Jazeera English report, only one third of India’s nearly 1.2 billion inhabitants have access to proper sanitation
According to NSSO these are some facts about slums in India 2008-2009.
About 49 thousand slums were estimated to be in existence in urban India in
2008-09, 24% of them were located along nallahs and drains and 12% along
railway lines.
• About 57% of slums were built on public land, owned mostly by local bodies,
state government, etc.
• In 64% of notified slums, a majority of the dwellings were pucca, the
corresponding percentage for the non-notified ones being 50%.
• For 95% slums, the major source of drinking water was either tap or tubewell.
• Only 1% notified and 7% non-notified slums did not have electricity connection.
• About 78% of notified slums and 57% of the non-notified slums had a pucca road
inside the slum.
• About 73% notified and 58% non-notified slums had a motorable approach road.
• About 48% of the slums were usually affected by waterlogging during monsoon
