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*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.