INDIA IS AT THE TOP

·        World’s largest democracy and electoral process (71.4 crore voters and more than 7 lakh polling stations)

·        World’s largest numbers of languages are spoken in India

·        World’s largest gold jewellery consumers (world’s 20% gold consumption)

·        World’s highest ATM – SBI ATM at Ladakh (12000 feet)

·        World’s first airmail system – b/w Allahabad and Nainital (1911)

·        World’s first country to adopt family planning (1952)

·        World’s first Muslim woman judge of an apex court – Justice Fathima Beevi

·        World’s first woman President of UN General Assembly – Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)

·        World’s cheapest car - Nano by Tata Motors

·        World’s highest airport – Leh (Ladakh)

·        World’s highest battlefield – Siachen

·        World’s highest cricket ground – Chail, Himachal Pradesh

·        World’s highest observatory – Indian Astronomical Observatory at Ladakh

·        World’s largest open University – IGNOU, New Delhi

·        World’s largest bus service operator – Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (19286 buses)

·        World’s highest passenger density – Mumbai suburban railway (63 lakh a day)

·        World’s highest newspaper market – India (107 million daily sales)

·        World’s largest film industry (considering the number of films produced in a year)

·        World’s largest number of graduates (49 million)

·        World’s largest postal network

·        World’s largets bicycle manufacturer – Hero Cycles limited

·        World’s largest producer of fruits (370 million tonnes)

·        World’s largest delta – Sunderbans

·        World’s largest receiver of foreign remittances – Rs 1255000 crores by the Indians abroad. This amounts to 10% of the world’s remittance flow

·        World’s largest goal winner in Olympics Hockey – 415 goals in 18 Olympic matches. India also has the world record of biggest victory margin in Olympics by defeating USA, 24 – 1 (1932) and Tanzania, 18 – 0 (1980).