Second largest man-made lake in Asia. About 50 km southeast of Udaipur is the Jaisamand Lake built by Maharana Jai Singh. Ranked as the second-largest man-made lake in Asia, the lake is flanked by the summer palaces and marble chhatris of the Udaipur queens.
Indian think tanks in the world list India has as many as 192 think tanks, and as per the latest survey of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania, ranks fifth in the world for its number of think...
Britain’s greatest battle Britain’s National Army Museum has drawn up a list (based on contest findings) of the 20 greatest battles in the 20th century. The battles of Imphal and Kohima, both fought between March 8, 1944, and July 3, 1944, have been ranked as...
Asia’s largest mandi Asia’s largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables is located in New Delhi. Over 3000 trucks bring fresh goods to the Azadpur Mandi every day. It retails to over 30,000 outlets in the National Capital Region.
First marble structure in India Hoshang Shah’s tomb in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, is said to be the first marble structure in India, and probably the first inspiration for the Taj Mahal.
Cucumbers originated in India Earlier believed to have come to India via Afghanistan, it now turns out that cucumbers and melons were native to India all along! Pandey and Susanne Renner of the Departments of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich, Germany, produced a...
Indian airports ranked amongst the world’s Top 5. Airports Council International (ACI), an international body of airports, has placed Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport second in terms of service quality after Seoul’s Incheon Airport, in the category of airports handling over 25 million passengers per...
Youngest girl to scale Mt Everest Thirteen-year-old Malavath Poorna created history on May 25, 2014, when she planted the tricolour on the highest peak of the world. Poorna, born in the Pakala village of Telangana, is of tribal origin. She is a student of class...
International award for a 9-year-old movie director. Two nine-year-old girls from a corporation school in New Delhi have proved that movie-making is child’s play for them. ‘Phoolwati Amma’, the movie they made as part of an MCD-Intach initiative on their school’s heritage, has been awarded...
Youngest App Developers Brothers Shravan Kumaran (14) and Sanjay Kumaran (12), students of class IX and VIII, respectively, at Vaels Billabong High International School, Chennai, have developed 11 apps that are available on the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Play Store. The two Apps...
