Did you know India…..
* India has become third country after South Korea and Albania to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons in compliance with the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
* Less than 2 percent of Indians own a computer (China is 10 percent)
* 45% of India’s population is under 25; 60% is under 35
* India has an all Female Peace keeping force in Liberia.
* India is the home of ayurvedic medicine, which has been practiced for more than 2,000 years
* India houses the alleged Tomb of Christ situated outside Srinagar in Kashmir
* Thirty-five percent of all people in India live on less than one dollar (US) per day
* the first ever Armenian constitution ("The snare of Glory") was written in Madras by Shahamir Shahamiryan in 1773 as the Constitution of a future Armenian state.
* That the first ever commercially recorded Armenian voice belonged to Ms. Gauhar Jan in Kolkata in November 1902.
* That the first Armenian Chief Justice outside Armenia was in the court of the great Emperor Akbar of India in the mid 16th century.
* That the first ever Armenian journal (Azdarar) was published in Madras in October 1794 by Rev. Arathoon Shumavonian.
* That the first British Ambassador to marry an Armenian lady was Captain William Hawkins (sent by King James I) who married Mubarik in the court of Emperor Jehangir in Agra in 1609.
* The Indian film industry, is by far the largest in the world.
* The Indian Air Force has a permanent Air Force Base at Farkhor in Tajikistan.
* India has built the world's highest helipad on the Siachen glacier at a place called Sonam, 21,000 feet above the sea level.
* India has installed the world's highest telephone booth on the Siachen glacier.
* India controls the Siachen glacier, which is the highest battleground on earth.
* St Thomas the Apostle performed the first baptism in India in 52 A.D. at Kodungallur
* Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world
* Indus Valley civilization of India, one of the oldest civilisations in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years.
* The world's first university was established in Takshila, India in 700 BC
* Indian physician Susrutha (c. 6th century BC) - also spelt Susruta or Sushrutha - is known by the title "Father of Surgery"
* Jagdish Chandra Bose is one of the pioneers of "Wireless Communication" and is the Father of Radio Sciences.
* One of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India
* India's rail network is the longest in the world, covering a total length of around 63,000 km (39,000 miles)
* Kashmir Railway is the second highest in the world.
* The Mumbai Suburban Railway System has the highest passenger density in the world (6.1 million people daily)
* Every household in the Dhaniakhali bloc of West Bengal has at least one loom, where handloom saris are made.
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-Harry Shearer
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
-Robert Heinlein
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
-Robert Byrne
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
- Jay Leno
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti