Indore at its Best

• First City in INDIA to have twin reputed education institutes IIM and IIT.


• The famous Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM was started first in Indore, then spread to ten other cities of India including 4 metros.


• Indore is nicknamed as Mini Bombay because of similar lifestyles, fashion.


• First private telephone operator Bharati had entered in INDIA from INDORE only.


• 40 feet high idol at Bada Ganapati is the largest idol of Lord Ganesh in the world.


• Indore stages largest tea party enters Guinness with 32,681 people sip tea at one place to enter the Guinness Book of Records in 2008 .


• Until the early 1990s, Bollywood movies were released on Thursdays in Indore, and released elsewhere on Fridays.


• The gates of Lalbagh Palace, Indore, are a replica of the gates of Buckingham Palace in London. They were cast in England and then shipped to Indore.


• RRCAT(formerly CAT), Raja Rammanna Center for Advanced Technology is India's main Research center on Laser and Accelerator Technology, under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India is in Indore.