BUSINESS FACTS OF INDIA

KEY PERSONS:


AT & T-Bell Labs - President, Arun Netravalli

Lucent Technologies - Chief Scientist, Arun Netravalli

Hewlett Packard - GM, Rajiv Gupta

Adobe Systems - CEO, Shantanu Narayen

Founder and Creator of Hotmail - Sabeer Bhatia

Creator of Pentium chip - Vinod Dahm

CitiBank - CEO, Victor Menezes

Mckensey - CEO, Rajat Gupta

Stanchart - CEO, Rana Talwar

Sun Microsystems - Co-founder, Vinod Khosla

FACTS:

36% of NASA employees are Indians

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians

38% of doctors in America are Indians

28% of IBM employees are Indians

12% of scientists in America are Indians

17% of Intel employees are Indians

13% of Xerox employees are Indians

More than a million Indians are millionaires

INTERESTING FACTS:-"INDIA"

The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun (5th century) as 365.259756484 days.

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.

The world's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Navgatih'.

The place value system or the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

India is the only country that is home to 20 million migrants from its neighbouring countries.

India has the largest population of street children in the world. At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of urban India.

India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

India has one of the world’s highest rates of Abortion.

INTERESTING FACTS:-"ANIMALS"

• A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. 
• A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk! 
• On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
• An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
• The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
• It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length. 
• The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.
• Armadillos sleep for an average of 18.5 hours, a day
• A Bear have 42 teeth.
• There are no vocal chords in a giraffe.

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