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 1. ISRO'S EXPENDITURE IN THE LAST 40 YEARS = HALF OF NASA'S SINGLE YEAR BUDGET.  2. ISRO'S BUDGET IS ONLY 0.34 PER CENT OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE AT PRESENT AND 0.08 PER CENT OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP).  There is so little to offer, but in turn ISRO has got more in return to offer back to the nation.  3. SO, YOU THINK IT'S JUST A SMALL ORGANIZATION?  Last year, it saw a turnover of Rs.  14 billion! 4. THEY DO MUCH MORE THAN JUST LAUNCHING SATELLITES.  They are developing an orbital vehicle as well as setting up a training center in Bangalore to train astronauts.  Considering hold your breath, though, this is likely to happen only post 2017.  5. ISRO'S MARS MISSION IS THE CHEAPEST SO FAR, JUST 450 CRORE I.E RS 12 PER KM, EQUIVALENT TO AUTO FARE.  In 2008-09, the Indian Space and Research Organization successfully launched a lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, which discovered evidence of water on...

Know these interesting facts about Mahabharata reality ..  1: Dwarka city  At the end of Dwaparyug, the city of Dwarka of Lord Krishna was submerged.  Archaeologists have discovered an ancient city and civilization from the sea adjoining Gujarat to the Arabian Sea, which is believed to be of the Mahabharata period.  The architecture of this place further reinforces this fact.  2: dynasty  The Mahabharata scripture originated with King Manu.  More than fifty rulers of this dynasty are mentioned in Mahabharata.  If it was just a fantasy, the author could have started his talk by not telling about the entire lineage.  Why someone would mention more than 50 genealogies in a fictional epic.  3: current city  Even today, there are more than 35 such cities in India, which are described in Mahabharata.  In this, Hastinapur, which is today known as Meerut, Angapradesh, which is today's Gonda and Bahraich city and Indraprast...

Unbelievable and incidental facts to know about Titanic  There are some incredible facts about Titanic.  We all know about the accident that happened with the Titanic.  The worst incident in history.  Some interesting facts to know about Titanic are:  - Titanic was called as unsinkable ship.  Those who had made Titanic ships had an opinion that this ship can never be sunk in the sea.  But we all know the real facts.  - In 1898 a book was published by Morgan Robertson named "The Wreck of the Titan".  It was a fictional story.  In that book it was written that a big ship, incidentally known as the unsinkable ship, is being hit with a snow berg at midnight and that too in a month of April.  Even in the book it was written that a large ship is sinking before 400 meters of Newfoundland.  It was a narrative story written and published in the year of 1898 that was 14 years before the Titanic crash.  - In 1912, the...

1) Oldest inhabited place in world is in India - Varanasi 2) The only lake in world formed by a meteorite is in India - Lonar lake 3) The shampoos were firstly invented in  India  4) World's highest Cricket ground is located in india - Himachal Pradesh 5) The first Indian rocket was Transported in a cycle.