FaCts U mUst KnoW

Facts about India....

1. India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are other two)

2.India is one six countries that launches satellites

3.The Bombay stock exchange list more than 6000 companies. Only the NYSE has more

4. Eight Indian companies are listed on the NYSE; three on the NASDAQ

5. By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world's second largest after china

6. India has the second largest community of software developers, after the US

7. India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the US

8. India is the world's largest producer of milk, and among the top five producers of sugar, cotton,tea, coffee, spices, rubber, rubber, silk and fish

9. 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R & D facilities in India

10. Two million people of Indian origin live in the US

11. Indian born Americans are among the most affluent and best educated of the recent immigrants groups in the US

12. 30% of the R & D researchers in American pharmaceutical comapnies are indian american

13. Nearly 49% of the high tech startups in silicon valley and washington DC are owned by Indian and Indian american

14. India sends more students to US college than any country in the world. Last year more than 80000 students