The India brand - feel 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 startups 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 USFDA.
* India is home to the largest number of pharmaceutical plants
(61) approved by USFDA 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 millionaries.
* 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.
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