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100 unusual facts about India


A. V. C. College

A.V.C. College ' A ' Grade by NAAC is a college in Mayiladuthurai, India.

Ahmed Shiyam

He is a graduate of the prestigious National Defence College of India, and completed his Infantry Officer Advance Course at Fort Benning, USA and is the first Maldivian graduate from the Command and Staff College in Quetta, Pakistan.

Ajit Singh Kohar

He is the Minister of Transport, Legal & Legislative Affairs and Elections in the current Punjab Government.

Alfred William Begbie

Alfred William Begbie was a British civil servant in India.

All-Red Route

Initially the term was used to apply only to steamship routes (as these were the only practical way of carrying communications between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire), particularly to India via the Suez Canal - a route sometimes referred to as the British Imperial Lifeline.

Amli

Amli, India, a town in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli

AMPL-class interceptor boat

The vessels have been based at various Indian coast guard station such as Mandapam, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Okha, Chennai, Kochi and Goa, and one boat was leased to Mauritius in 2001.

Antu

Antu, India, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Aurangabad district, Bihar

Blocks: Madanpur, Kutumbba, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, Barun, Obra, Deo, Nabinagar, Haspura, Goh and Rafiganj

Bagpat district

The Most famous village of Baghpat district is Chhaprauli(from where prime minister Charan Singh hailed),KIRTHAL, Budhera (Gurjar), Gothra, Pilana,Khatta BICHPADI PAST MLA MASHYA SH. CHAJJU SINGH FROM KHEKRA VIDHAN SABHA PrahladpurDhikauli,Katha,Noorpur, Sujra, Bazidpur, Harsana,Mandola,Khekra,Badagaon,Dundahera,Pabla,Nirpura,Khedi Jatt,Dagarpur,Norozpur Goojar,Fakharpur,Mitli,Sisana,Katha,and Bharal.

Baker Nagar Sundrasi

Baker Nagar Sundrasi or simply Sundrasi is a village near cb ganj in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Baoni State

The last governor, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the document of accession to India August 15, 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States of Vindhya Pradesh on April 2 of 1948 and remained as head of the state until December 31, 1949.

Battle of Kartarpur

The Battle of Kartarpur was a 1635 siege of Kartarpur by the Mughal Empire and was the last major battle of Early Mughal-Sikh Wars.

Bhagwan Mahaveer Public School

Bhagwan Mahaveer Public School (or BMPS) (Now, Bhagwan Mahaveer Public Senior Secondary School Banga) is located in Banga, Punjab, India, on Happowal Road.

Bhanot Rajputs

3. Some people believe that the caste Bhanot originates from the people who were originally from the village 'Bhanot' in the Mandawar Mandal area in Alwar district in Rajasthan state of India.

Bihari hindi

Also people from places like Madhubani and Darbhanga talks with too much respect and never uses word Tum(तुम)(you) instead word aap(आप) is used to talk to everyone.

Birth Control International information Centre

This included Sanger's tour of Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1934, How-Martyn's tour of India in 1934, and Sanger and How-Martyn's World Tour for Birth Control in 1935-1936, during which they spoke to numerous groups and organized birth control organizations in India, Burma, Malay, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, and the West Coast of the United States.

Buddhist architecture

This simple plan was adopted by early Buddhists, sometimes adapted with additional cells for monks at the periphery (especially in the early cave temples such as at Ajanta, India).

Callian

Callian referred during British time, is present day Kalyan.

Canadian Children's Museum

With a museum-issued passport and a good imagination, visitors can travel to Nigeria, Japan, India, Mexico, Indonesia and other international destinations.

Care Highway

After finishing college, he worked with humanitarian aid projects in the United Kingdom, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, India and Sweden.

Chanchal Bharti

Chanchal attended India's Got Talent season 4, during the program she was accompanied by her group Chanchal Bharti and Party.

Cherukallayi

Cherukallayi is a revenue village which forms a part of Mahé municipality of Puducherry, India.

Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Bandra

The main altar of the original church was obtained from one of the ancient, ruined churches of Diu.

Chushi Gangdruk

The Dokham Chushi Gangdruk organization, a charity set up in New York and India with chapters in other countries, now supports survivors of the Chushi Gangdruk resistance currently living in India.

Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) is an Indian association that promotes business enterprises for Dalits.

Dâlma

Dalma Hills - a hill range located near the industrial city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, eastern India.

Dangaria Kandha

Dangaria Kandha also known as 'Dongaria Kondh' is a tribe in the south-west part of Odisha, India.

Denis Perera

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI, ndc, psc, SLE (10 October 1930 - 11 August 2013) was a Sri Lankan general, military engineer and a diplomat who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981.

Dependency theory

The improvement of India's economy after it moved from state-controlled business to open trade is one of the most often cited (see also economy of India, Commanding Heights).

Edmund Drummond

Edmund Drummond (17 January 1814 – 10 January 1895) was a British civil servant in India.

Far East

The term was popularized during the period of the British Empire as a blanket term for lands to the east of British India.

Fort St. Anthony of Simbor

The Fort St. Anthony of Simbor, Forte de Santo António de Simbor in Portuguese, also referred as Fort of the Sea or Fort of Pani-Kota, is located on a small island in the bay of Simbor, about 25 km east of Diu in India.

G. A. Chandrasiri

General Chandrasiri is a graduate of the Defence Services Command And Staff College, Mirpur and National Defence College, India.

Girmityas

"Agreement" is the term that has been coined into "Girmit", referring to the "Agreement" of the British Government with the Indian labourers as to the length of stay in Fiji and when they would be allowed to go back to India.

Gokula

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment.

Gori Ganga

The village Milam is located one kilometer below the snout of the glacier.

Hata

Hata, India, a town in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India

Hill Top School Dalhousie

HillTop School Dalhousie is a co-educational residential school in Upper Bakrota hills in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Himmanshoo A. Malhotra

Himmanshoo first came to light when he was selected to participate in Zee Cinestars ki Khoj in 2004.

History of Tripura

This was their most glorious period and their power and fame was even acknowledged by the Mughals, who were their contemporaries in North India.

Ilm-e-Khshnoom

In 1875, an eighteen-year old Parsi named Behramshah Nowroji Shroff left Surat (Gujarat, India) for Peshawar (now in Pakistan) in search of employment.

India paper

The name arose because the paper imitated fine papers imported from India.

India: Kingdom of the Tiger

The plot is loosely connected to the documental stories published in Jim Corbett's 1944 bestselling book "Man-Eaters of Kumaon".

India.gov.in

It provides a feed of news articles from Doordarshan, offers press releases sourced from the Press Information Bureau and a list of announcements contributed by central and state departments.

India's Great Driving Challenge

After a series of tasks and evaluations, a press conference will be held where the three finalists will be announced to the media in the presence of representatives of the organisers, facilitators and jury members.

Indo-Burma barrier

The protests from people living in the Moreh, Chorokhunou, and Molchan areas forced the Home Ministry to refer the matter to the Manipur government.

Ishing thingbi lake

Ishing Thingbi lake is a fresh water lake situated at Konaitong in the Chandel district of Manipur, India.

Jafarabad State

Jafarabad was a tributary princely state in India, in the Kathiawar Agency under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.

Jagmohan Singh Kang

From 2002 to 2007 he was the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development Tourism & Fisheries in Punjab Government.

Jai Prakash Narayan National Park

The Indian Central Public Works Department (CPWD) looks after it.

Janardan Singh Gehlot

Janardhan Singh Gelhot is an Indian sports administrator.

Jayantha de S. Jayaratne

Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne, VSV, ndc, IG, SLA was a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SF HQ (J)).

Jewish communities of Portugal

According to the official website of the Jewish Community of Porto, it is ruled by the philosophy of Chabad Lubavitch and among its members one finds Jews from sources as diverse as Egypt, India, Russia, United States, Poland, Spain, Israel, Portugal, Mexico and Venezuela.

Joaquim Goes

Goés, from the region of Goa along the Indian west coast, was earlier part of the National Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula.

Kafila

Kafila.org is a group blog where members post opinions on current affairs, mostly related to India.

Kshitish Mohan Lahiri

After Indian independence in 1947, Kshitish Mohan Lahiri's family migrated to newly formed state of West Bengal in India.

Lalotra

The Lalotra are a Rajput clan found mainly in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Lalotras were also found in Sialkot District, and these Lalotras immigrated to India at the time of the Partition of India.

Lar, Iran

There is a city named Lar, India in which most of the people have stated their tribe as Iraqi biradri.

Lok Rajputs

The Lok Rajputs are Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India.

M. Chinnaswamy

Chinnaswamy was the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 1977 to 1980 and Secretary from 1960 to 1965.

Mangalam Chinnaswamy (March 29, 1900 - November 8, 1991) was a prominent Indian cricket administrator.

Milinda Peiris

Major General Milinda Peiris, RWP, RSP, USP, ndc, psc, is a Sri Lankan Army officer who commanded the 5th Regiment of the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps with distinction.

Model English High School

Model English High School (M.E.H.S.) is the one of the oldest school in Kalyan city.

Moosa Ali Jaleel

MSc ndc psc was the former Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force and most senior military officer in the country at his time.

Mori Rajputs

The Mori clan is one of 36 royal Rajput clans of India and falls in 24 Eka clans which are not divided further.

Mumbai College

this can refer to any of a number of academic institutions in Mumbai, India, including

Nalin Seneviratne

General Ganegoda Appuhamelage Don Granville Nalin Seneviratne, VSV, ndc, SLE (August 25, 1931 - August 12, 2009) was a Sri Lankan Army officer.

Nawanagar State

On June 19, 1959, the boundaries of the district were enlarged by the inclusion of the adjoining Okhamandal, and the district was renamed Jamnagar.

Nazargunj

Nazargunj (tr.: a place worth seeing) is an Indian princely state, originating in Purnea, in the state of Bihar.

North Eastern Hill University

North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is a Central University established on 19 July 1973 by an Act of the Indian Parliament.

Panampilly Nagar

Panampilly Nagar is a residential zone in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India.

Pariyon Se

Pariyon Se is one of the lesser known albums of Indian pop singer Sonu Nigam.

Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India

The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India.

Chamba issued a total of 120 stamps and 86 official stamps from 1885 till 15 April 1948 when it became part of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

S. B. Patel

He was born in the Kheda district of Gujarat in India and had worked with Gandhi when he initiated satyagraha in Kaira District, in 1918, to secure suspension of revenue assessment on failure of crops, then went to Rangoon and London.

Sacred complex

The aspects of great and little tradition as put up by Redfield were applied to an Indian context.

Sadanand Shetye

Sadanand Shetye is an Indian Kabaddi player belonging to the state of Maharashtra.

Sangat

Sangat, India, a city in Bathinda district in the Indian state of Punjab

Savara people

The Savara are an ancient tribe that lives in the northeast of India.

Shahkot

Shahkot, India, a town and Nagar Panchayat of Jalandhar district, Punjab

Shanti Devi

Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

South Asian Spelling Bee

The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.

Suhaib Ilyasi

Suhaib Ilyasi (born 8 September 1966) is a producer, director and the host of India’s first reality TV show, India's Most Wanted.

Surjit Singh Rakhra

He is Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat in the present Punjab Government.

Sweet Auburn

Artist such as Usher Raymond, Outkast, India.Arie, and Raven-Symoné have started out performing on stage at the festival.

Tamu, Burma

Tamu is something of a transport hub for cross-border traffic to India, being just across the border from Moreh.

Tarsa

Tarsa, India, village in Mouda tahasil of Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India

Thiek

Thiek is one of the numerous pahnams or sub-tribes of the Hmar tribe of India.

Tibetan diaspora

According to Nawang Thogmed, a CTA official, the most oft-cited problems for newly migrating Tibetans in India are the language barrier, their dislike for Indian food, and the warm climate, which makes Tibetan clothing uncomfortable.

Tirunavukkarasar

He was the only one of the four kuravars to visit the shrine at Tirukokarnam on the western coast of India.

Uchila

Uchila may refer to any of the following places in Karnataka, India.

V. N. Purushothaman

V.N Purushothaman (9 April 1909, in Mahé, Kerala – 29 April 1990, at Pallur, Mahé, Kerala) was an Indian Congress leader.

V. P. Singaravelu

P. Singaravelu (03-06-1959 to 07-12-2011) was an Indian politician.

William Henry Hoare Vincent

In 1887 he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to vice-president of the legislative council of India and a member of the Council of India from 1923 to 1931.

World Vision Australia

Money raised in the 40 Hour Famine in 2002 has helped people in countries such as India, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

Yang Xuanzhi

He exclaimed: "Truly this is the work of spirits." He said: "I am 150 years old, and I have passed through numerous countries. There is virtually no country I have not visited. But even in India there is nothing comparable to the pure beauty of this monastery. Even the distant Buddha realms lack this." He chanted homage and placed his palms together in salutation for days on end.


11th Indian Infantry Brigade

It was relocated from India to Egypt in the middle of August 1939 and trained at Fayed in Ismailia Governorate on the Great Bitter Lake.

A.K. Golam Jilani

A. K. Golam Jilani was born in 24 October 1904 in the Algichor village of the Nawabganj Upazila of the Dhaka district of British India (Present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Ahmad Dilshad

Asia Times called him a "leading LeT Lashkar-e-Tayyiba ringleader"—a militant group devoted to an independence for the portion of Kashmir occupied by India.

Barkheda

Barkheda, Raisen, a village in the Obedullaganj block of Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh, India

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

C. M. Gupta

After serving as the director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, he is currently working as distinguished biotechnologist at the Central Drug Research Institute.

Elections in Kerala

Elections in Kerala are regularly held to fill government officials at all levels of government in both Kerala and India as a whole.

Femina Miss India Chandigarh 2013

The winner of Femina Miss India Chandigarh vies in Miss India.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

Government Pharmacy College, Bangalore

Government Pharmacy college is a government run Pharmacy college located in Bangalore, India.

Greenwood High International School

The majority of graduates attends university for their higher education either in India or around the world including ivy league universities,IIT etc.IB Diploma is well accepted by Indian universities including UGC, AICTE and MCI.

Gymnastics in India

Gymnastics came of age in India, when at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Ashish Kumar won the first-ever medal in gymnastics for India, he also won a bronze medal.

Hemayetpur

Mahatma Gandhi visited him in Himaitpur as did other leaders, to seek his views and draw inspiration for creating a new India.

History of Rajasthan

Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state (Tonk), and the Jat states (Bharatpur and Dholpur) were organized into the Rajputana Agency.

Indian Depository Receipt

The benefit of the underlying shares (like bonus, dividends etc.) would accrue to the depository receipt holders in India.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics

The Institute has a network of laboratories and observatories located in various places in India, including Kodaikanal (the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory), Kavalur (the Vainu Bappu Observatory), Gauribidanur, Hanle (the Indian Astronomical Observatory) and Hosakote.

Indies

The extensive East Indies are subdivided into two sections (from a European perspective), archaically called Hither India and Further India.

Interim Government of India

The senior Congress leader Vallabhbhai Patel held the second-most powerful position in the Council, heading the Department of Home Affairs, Department of Information and Broadcasting.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).

Kaliyattam

In 1998, Suresh Gopi received the National Film Award for Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for Best Director for their work on the film.

Kamalapuram

Kamalapura (sometimes written Kamalapuram), a town in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

Kitty Kirkpatrick

In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.

Kumbhoj

The former name is apparently free from Iranian or Paisaci influence since Maharashtra location was far removed from the north-west division of ancient India.

Kurli

Kurli, Maharashtra, a village in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, India

Maya Keyes

Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Alan Keyes, and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes who is a native of India.

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), also known as Nadiad Kidney Hospital, is a not-for-profit Trust Hospital in Nadidad, Gujarat, established in 1978, and is the first speciality Urology Hospital in India.

Nigerians in India

As of January 2012, there are about 10,000 Nigerians living and working in India but only 3,500 were registered with the Nigerian High Commission and they live in cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Jaipur.

Noorpur

Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh, a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India

O. roseus

Odontamblyopus roseus, an eel goby species found in muddy-bottomed coastal waters along the west coast of India

Paul Jarvis

He bowled with good pace, and took four wickets in two Tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the man of the match award for taking 5 for 35 against India in Bangalore.

Peter van Huizen

Van Huizen was voted as the world's best Goalkeeper in 1956 and played football for clubs such as the Negri Sembilan Indians Association (NSIA) and Seremban Rangers.

Punjab Warriors

It has developed India’s premier motorsports destination – Buddh International Circuit – at Greater Noida near New Delhi.

Qalandar

Among the contemporary people who hold the title Qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrath MASOOM SHAH BABA in WestBengal state of India Dist Bardhman Memari Sarif Takhtipur Hazrath Syed Shah Mohammed Khalandar Shah peeranvaliallah al Qadri al maroof Javagal Baba at Javagal Shareef(Hasan Dist.) in Karnataka state of India, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali of Trichy, Baba Fakruddin of Penukonda India.

Rhacophorus rhodopus

So the actual situation seems to be that the three taxa refer to two, not three species, with R. htunwini being a junior synonym of R. bipunctatus – possibly a restricted-range endemic of upland forest at the eastern end of the Himalayas, though it might occur south to Malaysia –, and R. namdaphaensis a junior synonym of R. rhodopus, a species that ranges widely from eastern India to the east and south and also occurs in lower-lying regions.

Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra

Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.

Sanitary napkin

In order to meet the need for achieving an inexpensive solution to tackle unsanitary and unhygienic practices in countries like India, Arunachalam Muruganantham from rural Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India developed and patented a machine which could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost.

São Matias, Goa

São Mathias also known as Malar is a village on Divar island, Tiswadi, in the Indian state of Goa.

Satish Nambisan

Prof. Nambisan obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

Sourabh Vij

Born in New Delhi, Vij won his first medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, where his mark of 18.45 metres brought him the shot put gold medal (India's second athletics gold of the competition along with Hari Shankar Roy).

SRFI

Squash Racquets Federation of India, the apex body for the squash racquet sport in India

Sri Lanka Time

The Sri Lanka Time reverted on 15 April 2006 to match Indian Standard Time calculated from the Allahabad Observatory in India 82.5 ° longitude East of Greenwich, the reference point for GMT.

TANLA

Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.

Tata Coffee

Tata Coffee entered into a coffee sourcing and roasting agreement with Starbucks Coffee Company to supply coffee beans to its coffee chains in India.

The Mystery of the Blue Diamond

Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond, is a 1941 Belgian theatre piece in three acts written by Hergé and Jacques Van Melkebeke.

Volkswagen Vento

Besides the "Breeze', Volkswagen India, in collaboration with the IPL authorities, annually offers a special IPL edition at a slight premium.