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Showing posts with label amazing facts. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

14 Facts about Indian people worldwide


  • Vinod Dahm invented Pentium chip ( 90% of the today's computers run on it).
  • Vinod Khosla co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
  • Sabeer Bhatia created Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program).
  • Rajiv Gupta is the GM of Hewlett Packard.
  • Sanjay Tejwrika is the Microsoft Testing Director of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems.
  • Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar are the Chief Executives of McKenzie & Stanchar.
  • Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America.
  • 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
  • 12% of scientists in USA are Indians.
  • 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
  • 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
  • 28% of IBM employees are Indians.
  • 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
  • 13% of XEROX employees are Indians.



10 Interesting facts about India:

  • The famous board game, called Chess, was invented in India.
  • In India's 100,000 years of history, it has never invaded any other country.
  • India is the 7th largest country in the world, the largest democracy and one of the oldest civilizations.
  • India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in 17th century.
  • The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in 6th century.
  • India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products. It exports software to over 90 countries.
  • India is home to the world's largest pilgrimage destination called the Vishnu Temple. The temple is located in the city of Tirupati. About an average of 30,000 people visit this temple donating about $6 million US dollars, everyday.
  • India originated Yoga about 5,000 years ago.
  • India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
  • Christians and Jews have been living in India since 52 A.D. and 200 B.C. respectively