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44 unusual facts about Karnataka


Acharya Pathasala Public School

Acharya Pathasala is an organization in southern Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Alipur Sign Language

It is spoken in the town of Alipur, Karnataka, which is a self-imposed Muslim enclave with a high degree of congenital deafness in a largely Hindu region.

Anandur

Anandur, Karnataka, a village in Mysore Taluka, Mysore District, 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.

Balle Mallarada Puje

Balle Mallarada Puje is a Hindu marriage ritual performed in some parts of Karnataka.

Bangalore Football Stadium

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

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.

Candor International School

Candor is ranked among top schools of Bangalore and is also constantly recognised as one of the best International Baccalaureate schools of Karnataka.

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.

Charles Godeheu

Robert Clive, a discontented young British factor who had left the countinghouse for the field, seized the fort of Arcot, political capital of Karnataka, with 210 men in August 1751.

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.

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.

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The Government Sri Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Technological Institute, Bangalore, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka State, was founded in 1938.

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).

Hyderabad-Karnataka

The Hyderabad-Karanataka region comprises Gulbarga, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal, Bidar and Bellary districts in the present state of Karnataka, The Hyderabad-Karanataka region is the second largest arid region in India.

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 Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre

Situated in Vimanapura Post of Bangalore, Karnataka, the centre has produced more than 50 satellites including the INSAT series, the IRS series, as well as the GSAT communication satellites.

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).

Jivaraj Papriwal

Today the images can be seen in Punjab, Haryana, Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, installed by Jivaraja in temples of the Digambar and Shvetambar sects.

John Guthrie Tait

In 1890 he travelled to India and took up a post in the Government Education Department at Mysore, Karnataka.

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 state government declared a state-wide holiday on 13 April as a mark of respect to the departed soul, who was also a recipient of Karnataka Ratna (pearl of Karnataka) award.

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.

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.

Kurli

Kurli, Karnataka, a village in Belgaum district, Karnataka state, India

Little Flower Public School

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

Mallikarjun Bande

He started his career in Karnataka police as a Constable in 1997 and went on to become a police sub-inspector and worked in different parts of northern Karnataka.

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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.

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.

Mysore Education Society Kishora Kendra School

MES Kishore Kendra is a school and college located in the city of Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India.

Nagarik Seva Trust

Nagarika Seva Trust is an organisation that emerged between 1972-1973 in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, India.

Northern palm squirrel

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

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

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.

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.

The Sword of Tipu Sultan

A total of 52 episodes were shot, some of them in the Premier Studios in Mysore, Karnataka.

Woh Ghar

The story is set in rural Karnataka background and shows a bunch of children playing enacting adult life through a game, innocently depicting social dogmas of the prevailing era, such as child marriage, dowry and superstitions.

Y. G. Parameshwara

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

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In 1979, he was appointed Health Officer and Assistant Surgeon in the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka.


Adavisomapur

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

Ainapur

Ainapur, Jevargi, a village in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

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Ainapur, Chincholi, a village in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

Al-Hilal English School, Manki

Al-Hilal English School is a not-for-profit school in Manki, Karnataka, which was founded in 1989 by late Mr. Sawood Hajika, and is managed by the Tarbiat Education Society.

Aldhal

Aldhal, Shahapur, village in Shahapur Taluka, Yadgir District, Karnataka, India

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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.

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).

Bhagamandala

Bhagamandala is located about 33 km from the district headquarters Madikeri and is connected by paved roads from Madikeri, Virajpet and nearby places in Karnataka and Kerala.

Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association

#Obtaining a 2% reservation for Gorkhas under the OBC category for admission into government colleges in Karnataka after fulfilling certain criteria.

Buxa Fort

Initially reluctant, a message from the Dalai Lama, urging them to think of the future and to strive for sufficiency, and the option of settling near other Tibetan refugees convinced the monks to move, and in 1971 the monks moved to their new locations at Bylakuppe and Mundgod in the state of Karnataka.

Dhanaji Jadhav

During 1689 – 1690, Santaji and Dhanaji were directed to prevent the Mughal army in Maharashtra to enter into Karnataka after Rajaram’s flight to Gingee.

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On 20 November 1695, Kasimkhan; Aurangzeb’s powerful General in Karnataka, was attacked, defeated and killed by Santaji and Dhanaji at Doderi near Chitradurga.

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.

Gattahalli

This Ashram conducts Free Eye Camp across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on every year and provides food and shelter for people who undergo eye operation.

Ghatak Force

Most undergo training at the Commando Training Course in Belgaum, Karnataka.

Gonzalo Carrera

Carrera has also previously worked with Spanish progressive rock band Galadriel and British-American progressive rock band Quasar, as well as on solo projects by former members of Hawkwind (Huw Lloyd-Langton), Jethro Tull (Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick), Karnataka (Nick May), The Nice (David O'List), and Yes (Peter Banks).

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).

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.

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 wine

Some of India's larger wine producing areas are located in Maharashtra, Karnataka near Bangalore and Andhra Pradesh near Hyderabad.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

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.

Kalakundi

Kalakundi, India, a village in Dharwad district in the southwestern state of Karnataka, India

Kamalapuram

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

Kannur International Airport

More than 8 roads are to be developed for connecting to the Airport, which includes Kannur (Melechovva)-Mattannur road, Thalassery-Mattannur road, Thalassery–Anjarakandy–Airport road, Thalassery–Nadapuram Road, Karnataka Border (Koottupuzha/Makutta) – Mattannur Road, Wayanad (Mananthavadi) – Nedumpoil – Mattannur road, Payyanur/Ezhimala–Mattannur road, Thalassery–Mahe Bypass, etc.

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.

Kodagu Gowda

Shobha Karandlaje, BJP Leader and Minister, Government of Karnataka

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Mahendra P. Lama

Prof Lama has also been nominated by the University Grants Commission for the Review Committee of the State Eligibility Test of Karnataka and also as a member of the prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship Selection Committee.

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.

Mallur

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

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.

Matte mungaru

Matte Mungaru is the real life story of an ordinary guy Narayana Mandhagadde from Shimoga district in Karnataka.

Nevromus austroindicus

It was formally described in 2012 on the basis of specimens from the Karnataka Western Ghats of Kottigehara with some specimens also obtained from near Sampaje.

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.

Shaapa

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

St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

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

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

In 2010, Sachin A. Punekar and P. Lakshminarasimhan published the new species S. darwinii from Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.

Venkata Rao

Aluru Venkata Rao, was one of the most eminent leaders of the Karnataka Ekikarana movement.

Wadi Junction railway station

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