india

1. What
       
   
        is the current population of India?
       
   
        1,173, 108, 018
2. What
       
   
        is the total fertility rate in India?
       
   
        2.68 children born/woman
3. What
       
   
        percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 37.2%
   
        - 77%
4. Briefly
       
   
        describe two terrorist attacks inside India.
   
        On Feb. 13, people thought to be Islamic terrorists bombed a restaurant in
        the
   
        northern city of Pune, killing 17 people.  Indian authorities on
        Saturday issued
   
        a national alert after 9 people were killed and at least 57 were wounded
        when a
   
        bomb exploded at a bakery in a neighborhood popular with foreign tourists
        in the
   
        western Indian city of Pune.
5. The
       
   
        Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the
        world
   
        by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?  India
   
        ranked 119th of 169 countries.
6. Briefly
       
   
        describe the effects of the monsoons on India. In
   
        less than three days, at least 120 people died. More than 4,000 animal
        carcasses
   
        were later hauled out of the mud. Two weeks after the floods, Surat’s
   
        diamond-polishing factories were practically empty of workers, who had
        fled
   
        fearing disease. An industry group estimated the losses at $60 million.
       
7. What
       
   
        are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? They
   
        have it extremely polluted with methane gas, they dump toxic waste into
        it, dead
   
        babies, and human waste flows into it from the city.
8. What
       
   
        is the literacy rate in India? The
       
   
        literacy rate of India is 76.9% for men and 54.5% for women.
9. What
       
   
        are the major religions in India? The
       
   
        major religions of India are Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%,
        Sikh
   
        1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%.
10. When
        
    
         did India achieve independence, and from what country? India
    
         achieved independence in 1947 from Great Britten.
        

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/asia/01india.html

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/09/28/world/1194817098866/part-1-water-woes-in-india.html

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8719

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html