Proud to be an Indian.......

The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE.

* Four out of 10 Silicon Valley start ups are run by Indians.

* With 800 movies per year , India ’s film industry overshadows Hollywood .

* The organized lottery market in India is US$7bn (2% of GDP)

* India consumes a fifth of the world’s gold output.

* Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year

* Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP(on a PPP basis) will be at the same level the US is at today

* Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.

* Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its GDP C again, among the highest in the world.

* Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management

* India has the third largest army in the world, nearly 1.5 million strong.

* India is the largest producer and consumer of tea in the world, accounting for more than 30% of global

Production and 25% of consumption.

* India is the world’s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the

World pass through India .

* India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with US FDA.

* India is home to the largest number of pharmaceutical plants (61) approved by US FDA outside the US .

India’s Hero Honda is the world’s

Largest motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production of 1.7m units.

# Other than US and Japan , India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.

# Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, with a staff of 1.6 million people.

# India is the second largest cement producing country in the world, producing more than 110 m tones.

# Of the fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India .

# There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the U.K.15% of the country’s total dining-out establishments.

# India is the largest democracy in the world, with nearly 400m voting in the last national elections.

# India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world.

# India has the third largest investor base in the world

# According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds.

# The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 21 years in the city of Allahabad , attracts 25 million people CE more than

The population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world.

# The Indian city of Varanasi , also known as Benares , is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world

Today.

# There are 3.22 million Indians in the US .

# Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US , with nearly 200,000 millionaires.

# India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.

# There are over 70,000 bank branches in India – among the highest in the world.