We have the second largest road network in the world-about 34 million Kms,only 2% are National Highways,i.e.,70,000 Kms and out of this about 16,000 Kms are one-lane-just one rickety lane and 70% of goods and trade moves by roads in India. Wealth does not generate roads,Roads generate Wealth!
POST: 2011-07-06T13:17:48+05:30
The man who won the first nobel peace prize died a pauper
POST: 2011-07-06T13:17:13+05:30
Henry Durant,founder of the Red Cross movement has 97 million volunteers,supporters and staff in 186 countries
POST: 2011-07-05T17:18:21+05:30
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor.,he took my measurement anew everytime he saw me while all the rest went on with their old measurements,expected them to fit me!
POST: 2011-07-05T16:50:33+05:30
Viceroys position did not foster the arts of compromise and bowing to public opinion,which was necessary for rising to the highest position in politics,thats why no viceroies of India had gone on to become the Prime Ministers of UK....
POST: 2011-07-05T16:48:38+05:30
650 year old Kuran,Worlds largest,breadth of a single page is about 3.5 feet and 700 pages are in golden ink is in Jumma Masjid,Mandvi,Baroda
POST: 2011-07-04T14:45:05+05:30
Two of the most lucrative business in the world are: Buying whisky by the bottle and selling it by the shot. Buying land by the acre and selling it by the lot.
POST: 2011-07-04T14:42:19+05:30
Cardinal Mezzofanti,19th century linguist was able to memorize the vocabulary of over 70 languages.
POST: 2011-07-04T14:41:09+05:30
Barbara Squeak Moore performed 1852 songs from memory in Pennsylvania in 1988,Henry Lorayne of Newyork has memorized more than 7,500,000 names...Antonia Di Marco Magliabechi was able to read entire book and memorize them without missing a single word or punctuation marks...
POST: 2011-07-04T14:37:10+05:30
Genius Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once went to the Vatican,where he listened to a piece of music that was only played once a year.It was always carefully guarder,so Mozart heard the piece,he was able to write down the entire score,note by note,from Memory!