Sometimes statistics speak louder than words. From registering the highest-ever Covid-19 infections in any country to hitting a milestone of administering a billion vaccine doses, from recording the highest medal tally at the Olympics to carrying out one the largest drug seizures in the world to date, here’s a look-back at the year that was for India, in numbers
Updated On: 2021-12-22 04:17 PM IST
India's Covid-19 vaccination drive, kick-started in Jan 2021, is the world's largest
On February 7, a portion of a ‘hanging glacier’ on the slopes of Nanda Devi broke off and triggered flash floods in Uttarakhand
Maharashtra saw a 400 per cent jump in Covid-19 cases from February to March
The death toll in Sukma-Bijapur attack was the worst for the Indian security forces since 2017
Later, hundreds of decomposed bodies were found floating in the river Ganga or buried in the sand of its banks in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
The rise in reserves was on account of an increase in foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves
In the Cabinet reshuffle, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and his deputy, Ashwini Choubey, were sacked along with 10 other senior ministers
India finished in the top 50 at Tokyo Olympics 2020, its best in four decades
Punjab has the highest share of Dalits, or Scheduled Castes (SC), in its population
Within a fortnight of scripting history, India's first homegrown vaccine, Covaxin, too won WHO's emergency use listing
PayTM had done India's biggest Initial Public Offering worth Rs 18,300 crore
On December 19, the Nagaland Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution demanding the repeal of AFSPA
