Indira Point is the southern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Great Nicobar, in the Nicobar Islands south of Burma. It represents the southernmost point of Indian national territory, some 1100 miles ESE of India’s mainland and only about 100 miles NE of Sumatra in Indonesia.

1. The distance covered by the first train between Bombay and Thane in 1853 was approximately 34 km.

2. This train was pulled by three steam engines named Sahib, Sultan and Sindh. The train had 14 coaches and was carrying about 400 people.

1. The state with the largest coal reserves in India is Jharkhand.

2. Coal reserves in India are mainly located in the older Gondwana formations of peninsular India and the younger Tertiary formations of the north-eastern region.

3. About 80 per cent of the coal reserves in India are bituminous type and belong to the non-coal category.