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India is the world's biggest producer of mica blocks and mica splittings. [75] India ranks second amongst the world's largest producers of barite and chromite. [75] The Pleistocene system is rich in minerals. India is the third-largest coal producer in the world and ranks fourth in the production of iron ore.
The education system of India is the world's second-largest. [452] India has over 900 universities, 40,000 colleges [453] and 1.5 million schools. [454] In India's higher education system, a significant number of seats are reserved under affirmative action policies for the historically disadvantaged.
List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes World Happiness Report: 137/156: UN-SDSN: 20 March 2021 report. Score=3.573 Happy Planet Index: 30 / 140
IBSA Dialogue Forum: India, Brazil, South Africa, an international tripartite grouping for promoting international cooperation among these countries. IGAD: the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a trade bloc centered on the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and African Great Lakes regions. IMEA: India, Middle East and Africa
Next is Sri Lanka, which has the 2nd highest GDP per capita and the 4th largest economy in the region. According to a World Bank report in 2015, driven by a strong expansion in India, coupled with favourable oil prices, from the last quarter of 2014 South Asia became the fastest-growing region in the world. [292]
On Thursday, New Delhi nearly ranked among the world's top 10 when it topped out at 109 degrees (43 C), about 5 degrees shy of the all-time record high temperature for April there, which is 114.1 ...
The Indian subcontinent is one of the most populated regions in the world, holding roughly 20–25 percent of the global population. Geographically, the peninsular region in Southern Asia is located below the Third Pole, delineated by the Himalayas in the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Indo-Burman Ranges in the east. [9]
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”