The India brand - feel proud to be an Indian

Kalpesh Chauhan, (Tax Assistant (Accounting Technician CA)   (8311 Points)

26 July 2010  

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 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.