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Story: Dell admits Indian mistake

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Posted by: Praveen (Thursday 22 September 2005, 10:32 AM)

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FACTS ABOUT INDIA AND INDIANS

 5,000 year old ancient civilization
 325 languages spoken – 1,652 dialects
 18 official languages
 World’s largest democracy.
 Worlds 4th largest economy.
 World-class recognition in IT, bio-technology and space.
 Largest English speaking nation in the world.
 3rd largest standing army force, over 1.5Million strong.
 2nd largest pool of scientists and engineers in the World.
 Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility, its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others.
 Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.
 India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
 India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world.
 80 of the World’s 117 SEI CMM Level-5 companies are based in India.
 World-renowned TQM expert Yasutoshi Washio predicts that Indian manufacturing quality will overtake that of Japan in 2013.
 15 of the world's major Automobile makers are obtaining components from Indian companies.
 TATA Motors paid $ 118 million to buy Daewoo commercial vehicle Company of Korea.
 Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company, gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue from overseas operations and 40% from USA.
 TATA Tea has bought Tetley of UK for £260M.
 India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports were worth $6 Billion in 1999.
 India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.
 India's INSAT is among the world's largest domestic satellite communication systems.
 India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with most of the components like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine, electronic modules all manufactured by public and private Indian industry.
 Kalpana Chawla was one of the seven astronauts in the Columbia space shuttle when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.
 The prestigious UK automaker, MG Rover is marketing 100,000 Indica cars made by TATA in Europe, under its own name.
 The country's foreign exchange reserves stand at an all-time high of $120 Billion.
 India is among the 3 countries in the World that have built Supercomputers on their own. The other two countries being USA and Japan. India built its own Super computer after the USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer back in 1987.

 India’s new ‘PARAM Padma’ Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.) is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this capability.

 India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M.

Top 5 American employers in India:

General Electric : 17,800 employees
Hewlett-Packard : 11,000 employees
IBM : 6,000 employees
American Express : 4,000 employees
Dell : 3,800 employees

General Electric (GE) with $80 Million invested in India employs 16,000 staff, 1,600 R&D staff who are qualified with PhD’s and Master’s degrees.

The number of patents filed in USA by the Indian entities of some of the MNCs (up to September, 2002) are as follows: Texas Instruments - 225, Intel - 125, Cisco Systems - 120, IBM - 120, Phillips - 102, GE - 95.

Staff at the offices of Intel (India) has gone up from 10 to 1,000 in 4 years, and will reach 2000 staff by 2006.

GE's R&D centre in Bangalore is the company's largest research outfit outside the United States. The centre also devotes 20% of its resources on 5 to 10 year fundamental research in a

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