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.
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.
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