Oldest Fort
The oldest fort in India is in Kalinjar, Madhya Pradesh. Situated among the Vindhyanchal hills at a height of 800 metres, this fort is supposed to belong to the Vedic Period. It is said that this fort was built by Kalinjar, the son of the Great Maharaja Bharat on whose name India is known as 'Bharat' in the native tongue
Record Number of Votes
The Indian National Congress (I) holds the record for receiving the world's largest number of votes during the elections of 1984. It stood victorious on 412 out of total 513 parliamentary seats when it achieved Eleven Crore Fifty Two Lakh Twenty One Thousand Seventy Eight votes i.e. 78% of the total votes cast.
Highest Tank war in the world
On 1st November 1948, the 7th cavalry of the Indian army (Stuart Tank) started an operation to escalate Pakistani soldiers and infiltrators who had trespassed the border and crossed over to the Indian side. This war was fought at the Zozila Pass in the Himalayas and is popular for being the 'Highest Tank war in the World'. No other army of any country has posed a challenge to this daring feat of the Indian army.