Subject: Fw: Do you know? 1. Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet. 2. War of 27 years - fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1681 to 1707 was the longest recorded military engagement in the history of India. 3. In 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru rejected an offer to India for a permanent UN Security Council Seat to avoid being embroiled in the cold war politics. 4. Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the world Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match. 5. India is one of only 3 remaining countries in the world to have a horsed cavalry regiment. 6. Agni III is the most accurate missile in the world in its range category and BrahMos is the fastest operational cruise missile in the world. 7. The process of crystallization of sugar from sugarcane juice was discovered in India in the Gupta period (350 AD). 8. Some tribes in India worship Ravan and they consider Vijaya Dashami (Dussehra) to be a black day. 9. In 1928, when the Indian Hockey team was on its way to Amsterdam, they played a series Of exhibition matches in England. Seeing its calibre, England decided not to field A team for the Olympics as “they did not want to lose to one of their colonies.” 10. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, Was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind. 11. Raj Kapoor’s 1951 film Awaara was massively popular in Soviet Russia and China. The film and its title song were Mao Zedong’s (Founder of People’s Republic of China) favourite. 12. There were two US navy warships called USS Krishna and USS Indra that served during World War II. 13. Contrary to the depiction in the movie “Border”, only 2 Indians died in battle of Longewala. 14. English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent. 15. Freddie Mercury British musician and the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen Was actually of Gujarati descent (Parsi) and was born as Farrokh Bulsara. 16. “John Doe” orders (restraint orders against unknown persons for breach of plaintiff’s rights) Are called “Ashok Kumar” orders in India. Likewise, “unclaimed” or “unidentified” Dead body found in a public place is called is Ashok Kumar. 17. The oldest building in Asia is the Sanchi Stupa in India. 18. There is a species of Shark known as the Ganges Shark that inhabits River Ganga and it is critically endangered 19. Contrary to the popular belief that the British built India’s railroads, the first Indian railroad was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth). 20. Mount Kailash has never been climbed, in spite of Chinese government’s support to the climbers. 21. Security at Tihar jail is managed by Tamil Nadu special police force. 22. When going to battle, some Indian kings would make their horses wear trunks. The other side’s elephants would refuse to attack the horses thinking that the horses were baby elephants. 23. If Uttar Pradesh were to be a separate country, it would be world’s fifth most populous country. 24. There are more poor people in 8 Indian states alone than in the 26 poorest African countries 25. Bodhidharma, a prince of the Pallava dynasty went to China and began the physical training of the Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Kung Fu. 26. Andhra Sugars, a sugar company in Andhra provides rocket fuel (liquid fuel) to ISRO. 27. Tipu Sultan used Rockets with Swords fixed in the front against the British in the Anglo-Mysore Wars. 28. There is a French electronic band named “Masala Dosa.” 29. Did you know India has a National Ice Hockey Team? 30. Ajmal Amir Kasab had, among others, a case booked for entering CST station without a ticket. And no one bothered to recover the penalty from him. 31. Indian Government hiked the payment for the hangman From RS 10 to 5,000 just days before Kasab’s hanging. 32. Australia’s Cricketer Stuart Clark is of Indian origin. Both his parents, Bruce Clark and Mary Clark are Anglo-Indians. 33. A city name Jhumri Telaiya actually exists in Jharkhand. 34. There was a Great Hedge built by the British across India primarily to collect the salt tax. It was 4000 km long and 12 feet in height spanning from Punjab to Orissa. None of it remains today. 35. There is a village called Delhi in New York, USA. There is a city called Madras in Oregon, USA. 36. India has three Antarctic stations - Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri and Bharathi. 37. After United States, India has the largest number of English speakers. 38. During the battle of Rezang La in the 1962 Sino-Indian war a battalion called 13 Kumaon Regiment Consisting of mere 120 soldiers held off 6000 Chinese with heavy artillery killing 1300 of their soldiers. 39. “Bangalored” is a word in Oxford dictionary, Which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm. 40. Guindy College of Engineering, Chennai is one of the oldest Engineering Colleges in the world. 41. There is a village in Assam called Jatinga where over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have flown to their death on a small strip of land. 42. India has the world’s smallest prison population. 43. The average cost of census taking in India is $0.5 per person (US: $39, World Average: $4.6). 44.-----> Under the “My Stamp” scheme, Indian Postal Department allows you to order personalized stamps with your picture on them.
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