- The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad known as London Olympics 2012
- Held in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012
- London hosted the Olympic games in 1908, 1948 and 2012
- The Olympic motto is ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’. This is Latin for ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’
- 204 nations, 26 sports, 39 disciplines and 302 events at the Olympic Games in 2012
- 10500 OLympic atheletes and 7500 Olympic team officials
- The first event, the group stages in women's football, began two days earlier, on 25 July
- London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore
- London was the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times
- The main focus was a new 200-hectare (490-acre) Olympic Park, constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford, East London
- The opening ceremony, directed by Danny Boyle
- During the Games, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, winning his 22nd medal
- Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time
- Women's boxing included first time in Olympic Games
- Olympic Games became the first at which every sport had female competitors
- Jamaica's Usain Bolt sensationally defended his title as the fastest man on the planet as he sprinted to glory in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds
- David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya became the first man to break the 800m world record three times
- United States of America got 1st rank in medal ranking with a total of 104 medals (46G 29S 29B)
- People's Republic of China got 2nd rank in medal ranking with a total of 88 medals (38G 27S 23B)
- Great Britain achieved its highest tally of gold medals since 1908, finishing third in the medal table with a total of 65 medals (29G 17S 19B)
- India got 55th rank in medal Table with a total of 06 medals (0G 2S 4B)
- Indian Grappler Sushil Kumar and shooter Vijay Kumar fetched silver medals while five-time world champion M C Mary Kom, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, shooter Gagan Narang and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt bagged bronze medals.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Monday, September 03, 2012
- The census was conducted in two phases.
- The first houselisting phase began on April 1, 2010 and involved collection of data about all the buildings and census houses. Information for National population register was also collected in the first phase.
- The second population enumeration phase was conducted from 9 to 28 February 2011 all over the country.
- The population of India at 0:00 hours of 1 March 2011 was 1,210,193,422.
- India added 181 million to its population since 2001.
- India with 2.4% of the world's surface area accounts for 17.5 % of its population.
- Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.
- Any one above age 7 who can read and write in any language with an ability to understand was considered a literate.
- The literacy rate taking the entire population into account is termed as "crude literacy rate", and taking the population from age 7 and above into account is termed as "effective literacy rate".
- Effective literacy rate increased to a total of 74.04% with 82.14% of the males and 65.46% of the females being literate.
- Density of population per km2 382.
- Sex ratio per 1000 males 940 females.
- Child Sex ratio (0-6 age group) per 1000 males 914 female.
