Incredible and Amazing facts about INDIA

• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 metres above sea level.

• India has the largest number of post offices in the world.

• The Indian railways is the largest employer in the world. It employs over a million people.

• Until 1896,India was the only source of diamond in the world.

• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army In August 1982.

• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valley around which early settlers lived.

• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.

• The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.,when the inhabitants of the Indus River Valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade.

• The National Flag of India was designed by Pingali Venkayyaand, an Indian freedom fighter. The flag was adopted in its present form during the meeting of Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before India's independence.

• The foundation of the modern Indian Navy was laid in the seventeenth century when the East India Company had established a maritime force, thereby graduating in time to the establishment of the Royal Indian Navy in1934