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39 unusual facts about Karnataka


Abd Allah ibn Abbas

Al Hakim records on the authority of ibn Abbas that Mohammed advanced, carrying upon his neck Hassan ibn Ali, and a man met him and said, 'an excellent steed thou ridest, lad!'.

Acharya Pathasala Public School

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

Akkasaliga

Akkasaliga is a community of people residing in the state of Karnataka.

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.

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).

Bheema Theeradalli

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

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.

Comat Technologies

Comat has been involved in several projects that have eased people's access to essential information based services, especially in the State of Karnataka.

D. K Shivakumar

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

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School Bangalore ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka in India was started in 1974 by Mr M. Yella Singh (an ex-Army Officer) and Mrs Caroline as President of the School, with 37 teachers and 1000+ students.

Formiscurra

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

G. Vidyaraj

He is a direct descendant of the rulers of the Vijayanagar raja of Hampi in Karnataka, which is where he claims the rubies originate from.

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.

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.

INSAT-3C

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

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.

Kangralkar

The surname originates from the name of a village Kangrali near the city of Belgaum in Karnataka, India.

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.

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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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

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.

S. R. Bommai

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SGPTA

Shri Gururaja Parents and Teachers Association (SGPTA) is a primary and secondary school in Thygarajanagar in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Shri Guru Madiwaleshwara

Shri Guru Madiwaleshwara - saint whose resting place is small town called Garag near Dharwad, Karnataka state in India.

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.

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

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

Talagunda pillar inscription

The pillar is located beside the Śiva temple of Prāṇaveśvara in Talagunda village, Shikaripur taluk in Shimoga district, 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.

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.


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

Ainapur

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

Al-Ameen Pre University College

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

Azim Premji University

The University campus is located on Hosur Road on the outskirts of Bangalore in Karnataka, India, which is a leased premise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Ingalagi

Ingalagi, Kundgol, a village in Kundgol taluk of Dharwad district of Karnataka, India

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.

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.

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.

Kanteerava Studios

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.

Karnik

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

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.

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.

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.

Matte mungaru

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

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.

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.

Obulapuram Mining Company

This investigation is the culmination of a recommendation to CBI by the former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Rosaiah and not directly related to the findings of Lok Ayukta Santosh Hegde on illegal mining in Karnataka.

Prajavani

Some analysts have also attributed this to the launch of Vijaya Vani, by the original owner of Vijaya Karnataka, Vijay Sankeshwar and his VRL Group.

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.

Samaga

Samaga is surname used by some of the members of Shivalli Madhva brahmin community of Udupi and Dakshina districts of Karnataka state, India.

Shobha Karandlaje

Hailing from Puttur in Coastal Karnataka, Shobha became associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at a very early age, one of the few women full-time workers of the Sangh parivar.

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.

St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

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

University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore was entrusted territorial jurisdiction over 15 southern districts of Karnataka comprising nearly fifty percent of the total area of the state, while the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, was given jurisdiction over the remaining area in the northern districts of the state.

Venkata Rao

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

Y. G. Parameshwara

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