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47 unusual facts about Karnataka


Baba Budan

Baba Budan was a 17th-century Sufi, revered by both Muslims and Hindus, whose shrine is at Baba Budangiri, Karnataka, India.

Badaganadu Brahmins

The mother tongue of Badaganadu community has been Kannada, and are largely spread around the northern parts of Karnataka, Bellary and Anantapur districts, Bangalore, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Holenarasipura, Madhugiri, Tumkur and other parts of Karnataka.

Bangalore Football Stadium

The state government in Karnataka even ordered an enquiry with the then PAC chairman Ekanthayya heading it.

Bheema Theeradalli

The film's title apparently enraged the Korma community members in Karnataka.

Bombay State

The southernmost, Kannada-speaking portion of the state became part of the new linguistic state of Karnataka (then, Mysore State).

BP Indian Public School, Malleswaram

It is located in a spacious building situated on 4th Main Road, Near 11th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.

Brown palm civet

The brown palm civet's distribution extends from the southern tip of Western Ghats in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve to Castle Rock in Goa to the north.

Carmel High School, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore

Carmel High School, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore is a co-educational recognized private unaided institution, located at Judges Colony, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Cascia High School

It offers high school education in both English & Kannada mediums under the Karnataka board of secondary education.

D. K Shivakumar

K. Shivakumar is a politician from the Indians state of Karnataka.

Formiscurra

The holotype was collected in the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences at Bangalore in the state of Karnataka in India.

Goans

Goans have been migrating all along the coast and across the world for the last six centuries because of many socio-religious and economic reasons, the diaspora are commonly known as the Konkani people, residing in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala who do not refer to themselves as Goans.

Govt sksjti

This institution being the first of its kind in South India with a view to provide well trained personnel for higher rungs of the organized textile industry covering various facets of the industry, is growing in its heights year after year and today it can claim to be the tallest institution and is under the control of the Department of Technical Education, Government of Karnataka.

Hanuman Jayanti

In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on Vaishaka Krishna Dashami (10th day of Krishna/Bahula Paksha in the month of Vaishaka).

Havigannada dialect

It is spoken in the regions of Sagar, Sirsi, Yellapur Siddapur, Honnavar, Kumta, Puttur, Gokarna etc. where there is a higher density of Havyakas in relation to other places.

Hindu priest

Traditionally, priests have come from the Brahmin class, although in various parts of India, people from other communities (such as Lingayats in parts of Karnataka) have performed the function.

Indian aurochs

The youngest known remains, which clearly belong to wild Indian aurochs are from Banahalli in Karnataka, southern India, with an age of about 4200 years old.

Indian wine

The altitude of India's vineyards typically range from around 660 ft (200 m) in Karnataka, 984 ft (300 m) in Maharashtra, 2,600 ft (800 m) along the slopes of the Sahyadri to 3,300 ft (1000 m) in Kashmir.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine

In 2013, an Indian firm, Bharat Biotech International, developed a vaccine by using the Indian strain of the virus collected from the Kolar district in Karnataka by the National Institute of Virology (NIV).

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kanpur

--MAKES NO SENSE!!The school promotes national integration through migration policy from Hindi speaking areas to non Hindi speaking areas vice versa.--> The third language of the school is Kannada and migration linkage is with the JNV Bijapur Karnataka state.

Kannadanadu

The term has several different connotations which in modern usage is generally another name for the southern state of Karnataka.

Kanteerava Studios

In 2005, the State Government initiated a proposal to revive the studio by leashing in private firms for the maintenance.

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The studio was started with the Government of Karnataka holding 93 per cent of the share capital and the remaining 7 per cent by private shareholders.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children Film

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children Film is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Kundu Special

The most popular tours on Kundu Special were their comprehensive 2-week tours of Madhya pradesh, Bombay Goa, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and Kashmir and their many pilgrimages to Kedar-Badri, Yamunetri-Gangotri, etc.

Little Flower Public School

Little Flower Public School (or LFPS) is an unaided co-educational English medium school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Mailara Mahadevappa

Mailara Mahadevappa was a prominent Indian freedom fighter from Haveri district of Karnataka state, India.

Mallikarjun Bande

Bande's hospitalization and his eventual death drew considerable public attention and sparked intense socio-political debate in Karnataka and himself being scaled up to a heroic and cult figure among the public.

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Opposition party led by Jagadish Shettar demanded for Central Bureau of Investigation probe into this matter.Victim's wife along with huge section of public staged protests for CBI probe,however Government of Karnataka ordered for Criminal Investigation Department Karnataka to conduct a detailed probe and report the same to government.

Mallur

Mallur, Karnataka, a village in Bangalore district, Karnataka, India

Mattu Pongal

Though the name of the festival is specific to Tamil Nadu, in India, it is also celebrated in other southern states such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Miyar House

It tells the personal story of the director as his ancestral house gets dismantled in a remote village called Miyar in Karkala Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka, South India.

Navodaya Vidya Samasthe

The school was founded as an English medium School in Kurboor, Chintamani taluk, Chikballapur District in 1987.

Northern palm squirrel

The southern boundary on the Western Ghats side clearly extends to localities including Dhawar and Mysore, in Karnataka.

Our Lady of Victories Church, Kolar district, Karnataka

Our Lady of Victories Church is a Catholic church situated in the Kolar Gold Fields within the Kolar district, in the State of Karnataka in India.

Patharkar

Individuals withPatharkar surname are mostly found in the following states, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka India.

Rama Raghoba Rane

Major Rama Raghoba Rane, PVC (Konkani: रामा राघोबा राणे), was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India and died July 11, 1994 at Southern command Hospital in Pune.

S. R. Bommai

title=Chief Minister of Karnataka|

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He also played an active role in the unification (Ekikarana in Kannada) of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom, Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency, during the British rule.

Sacchidananda Jnaneshwar Bharati

He is the guru of the community, which has its main spiritual centre or matha at Karki, near Honavar (5 km) in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka state.

Spring Zouk

Spring Zouk is the name of a festival in which was held February 3–5, 2012 at Udupi beach on at St Mary's Islands in Karnataka, India.

Uchila

Uchila may refer to any of the following places in Karnataka, India.

Vidyadayanee High School

Spelt in many ways Vidyadayanee (Vidyadayinee),(Vidyadayani ) High School is situated in Surathkal, Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka State in India.

Vincent Conçessao

Vincent Michael Conçessao was born on 28 September 1936 at Puttur in South Kanara district, Karnataka state, the fifth of eight children in a middle-class family.

Wadi Junction railway station

Wadi Junction railway station is located in Gulbarga district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Wadi.


Abbanakuppe

Abbanakuppe, Bangalore Rural, a village in Bangalore Rural district, Karnataka, India

Adavisomapur

Adavisomapur, Gadag, a village in Gadag District in the state of Karnataka

Al-Ameen Pre University College

Al-Ameen Pre University College is one of the institution in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Aldhal

Aldhal, Shorapur, panchayat village in Shorapur Taluka, Yadgir District, Karnataka, India

Ayas Shilpa

Ayas Shilpa is a privately held company based in Sullia, Karnataka, India, specializing in the construction of low-cost suspension bridges.

Bangarada Jinke

Bangara Nayaka's Fort is Channarayana Durga which is atop the Channarayana Hill in the vicinity of the Madhugiri Betta near Tumkur in Karnataka.

Beary dialect

Beary Basse (Beary language) is an Indian language mainly spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of "Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts)" and some parts of Kerala ( "in some parts of Kasaragod district" ) who are known as Bearys (Byaris).

Blasius D'Souza

His funeral was attended by Karnataka Congress leaders such as Veerappa Moily, Janardhana Poojary, B. Ramanath Rai, former ministers B. Nagaraja Shetty and B A Moideen, former MP Vinaykumar Sorake, local Congress leaders Ivan D'Souza and Naveen D'Souza among others.

Chitpavan

But in Dakshina Kannada District and Udupi Districts of Karnataka, this language is being spoken in places like Durga and Maala of Karkala taluk and also in places like Shishila and Mundaje of Belthangady Taluk.

D. C. Pavate

After returning from England, Pavate was appointed as Educational Commissioner of Bombay-Karnataka.

Datta Jayanti

The temples dedicated to Dattatreya are located throughout India, the most important places of his worship are in Karnataka,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat like Ganagapur in Karnataka near Gulbarga, Narasimha Wadi in the Kolhapur district, Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh near Kakinada, Audumbar in Sangli district and Girnar in Saurashtra.

Dvaravati sila

This Sila is worshipped, along with or independent of Sila (murthi) or Saligrama Sila, in some parts of the country (among Vaishnavites of Saurashtra, Bengal and Maharashtra; the Madhva sect in Karnataka), particularly in the Vaishnava tradition.

Gandaberunda

The Karnataka Government adopted this symbol as the state symbol and can be found on bus terminals and tickets issued by Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation.

Gnana Saraswati Temple, Basar

Historically, 'Bijialudu' a Karnataka king, who ruled the province of Nandagiri with Nanded as his capital in the sixth century, constructed the temple at Basara.

Govardhana sila

The only other God who shows a twig with a gunja seed on his upturned right hand palm to indicate the divya ksehtra’s superiority over Kashi (Varanasi) is Lord Narasimha, in the Gunja Narasimha Swamy temple locaterd at T.Narsipur in Mysore district in Karnataka on the bank of the Kaveri - Kapila - Spatika Sarovar sangam (confluence).

Gulabrao Patil

Gulabrao Patil was born on 16 September 1921 in a Maratha family in Benadi, a small village on the Maharashtra-Karnataka state border near Kolhapur.

Heronry

This heronry, in the Tumkur district of Karnataka, was first made known to the outside world in 1999 by members of the Tumkur-based NGO Wildlife Aware Nature Club.

INSAT-3C

All the transponders provide coverage over India.Insat-3C is controlled from the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka.

International Center For Management and Indian Studies

International Center for Management and India Studies (ICMIS) is a small educational institution, located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Jwalamalini

The place where Helacharya propounded his system is described as Malaya Hemagrama in the south identifiable with Maleyur in the Chamrajnagar Taluk of the Mysore district in the state of Karnataka.

Kamalapuram

Kamalapura (sometimes written Kamalapuram), a town in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

Karnataka Rakshana Vedike

The Vedike presented a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleging that historical bias by the colonial British administration against the Kingdom of Mysore was responsible for Karnataka being sidelined in favour of other states like Tamil Nadu.

Karnik

Ganesh Karnik, Indian politician and Member of Legislative Council at Karnataka Legislative Council

Kodagu Gowda

Shobha Karandlaje, BJP Leader and Minister, Government of Karnataka

Kotiganahalli Ramaiah

Kotiganahalli Ramaiah was born in the village of Kotiganahalli in Kolar district in Karnataka.

Mallikarjuna Reddy

Mallikarjuna Reddy was born Changalaraya Reddy in Thoppanahalli, a village in Bangarpet, Kolar district, Karnataka, India.

Manjula Gururaj

She was awarded by a special jury from Karnataka State Government as the Best Voice for the film Beladingala Baale, in which she lent her voice for the heroine who was heard, but not seen.

Matsyaganda Express

Shashi Tharoor demanded extension of this train to Trivandrum via Kottayam but caused a lot of protests in D.K District of Karnataka.

Morya Gosavi

According to one version of the story, Morya was born in Bidar, Karnataka.

Muddenahalli-Sathya Sai Loka Seva School

Located in the twin towns of Muddenahalli-Kanivenarayanapura, the birthplace of legendary Indian engineer, Sri Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya in Kolar District of Karnataka State.

People's Biodiversity festival

The main panelist were Mr. C. Madegowda from Karnataka, Mr. Subhash Majhi from Orissa, Mr. Somaru Baiga from Chattisgarh, Mr. Venkateshwarulu from Vishakapattanam, Ms. Suman Koreti from Chattisgarh, Mr. Pablo Solon from Bolivia (exec. director, FOCUS)

Politics in South India

Karnataka's political environment is dominated by two rival caste groups — the Vokkaligas and the Lingayats.

Rattus satarae

It is native to the northern Western Ghats in India where it is split between three regions, Satara in Maharashtra, the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu and Kodagu district in Karnataka.

Scorpion goddess

Chelamma - Hindu goddess of the Southern Karnataka region of India

Shaapa

The story is juxtaposed on the backdrop of the Cauvery river water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.

South Zone cricket team

It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Srujan Lokesh

Srujan Lokesh was born in Bangalore, Karnataka for popular Kannada film actor Lokesh and Girija Lokesh.

St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

Mary's Basilica is a basilica located in the Archdiocese of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Vikrama Chola

Here is an excerpt of his inscription(Grantha and Tamil) from Chintamani, Karnataka mentioning the decimation of Kalinga while he was still a co-regent of his father.

Vishuva Sankranti

Maha Vishuva Sankranti is similar to the New Year festivals observed elsewhere in India such as Baisakhi (Punjab), Bihu (Assam), Juir Sheetal (Mithila), Naba Barsha (Bengal), Bisu Parba (Tulu Nadu region in Karnataka), Vishu (Kerala), and Puthandu (Tamil Nadu).

Y. G. Parameshwara

-- dates of birth and death?? --> a medical doctor in the state of Karnataka, India.