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36 unusual facts about Bangalore


6-5=2

On 28 October 2010, 6 friends - Ramesh (boTi), Naveen, Kumar (tigNe), Prakash (jollu), Deepa, and Soumya - hailing from Mandya and Bangalore plan for a trek to an undisclosed mountain in Western ghats.

Al-Ameen Pre University College

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

Amit Bagaria

Amit Bagaria is Founder Chairman of Asipac Group in Bangalore, India.

Asha Negi

After finishing college, she worked at a Travel Agency in Bangalore.

Bangalore Astronomical Society

The Bangalore Astronomical Society (BAS) is a society of amateur astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Bangalore.

Brindavan college

Brindavan College is located at Bangalore, one of the A Grade accreditation college by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

C. P. Ramanujam

He settled down in Bangalore but again in the depths of depression caused by his illness, he tried to leave the Institute and obtain a university teaching post.

C. Raja Raja Varma

On the 4th of January 1905 after an operation for inflammation of the intestines, C. Rajaraja Varma died at Bangalore.

Compliant mechanism

On Dec 17, 2007, the first International Symposium on Compliant Mechanisms was held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Formiscurra

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

Geckoella jeyporensis

In 2009, Ishan Aggarwal, a doctoral student at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, started working on the genus Geckoella.

Glowworm swarm optimization

The GSO algorithm was developed and introduced by K.N. Krishnanand and D. Ghose in 2005 at the Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Government Pharmacy College, Bangalore

Government Pharmacy college is a government run Pharmacy college located in Bangalore, India.

Indian Music Industry

It also has offices in New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and other major Indian cities working on the protection of rights of music producers and preventing music piracy.

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.

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.

Izzy Westbury

In January 2010, Westbury was named as part of the England Academy squad for the High Performance Camp in Bangalore, India.

Junior college

Prominent junior colleges in Bangalore include Christ Junior College, St. Joseph's College, Vijaya College

K. T. Paul

He held important positions like President of the Governing Council of the United Theological College, Bangalore; General Secretary of the National Missionary Society (India); and Chairman of the National Christian Council of India.

Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences

On 30 November 1980 the Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri. R Gundu Rao laid the foundation stone of the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital in the premises of the Sangha and announced the grant of vacant land in Banashankari to be used for the construction of college building and hostels.

Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical college in the Indian state of Karnataka, affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Jayanagar, Bangalore.

Linux India

One of the reasons was that a repeat of the event from November 1999 was scheduled in Bangalore, and the sponsors of the Linux presence at the event felt the need to work with a formal organization, in order to avoid inadvertently getting into a political cross-fire.

Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy

Krishnamurthy began his academic career as a lecturer in Hindi at National College, Bangalore in 1967.

National Academy For Learning

Part of the National Public Schools, Bangalore, it the CBSE, IGCSE and the A-level syllabi to students.

NIANP

The National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, or NIANP, is located in Adugodi, Bangalore.

Patel Sudhakar Reddy

Later his Party transferred him to Gadchiroli district until his arrest in 1992 in Bangalore and seven-year imprisonment.

R. V. Pre University College

Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Pre University College is a pre university college located in the Jayanagar locality of Bangalore, India.

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, India, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka.

Ray and Keshavan

Ray and Keshavan (commonly referred to as Ray+Keshavan), based in Bangalore, is South Asia’s leading brand consulting and design company.

Sarjapura

Sarjapur is fast-developing part of Bangalore with good road connectivity to key IT cluster areas like Whitefield (15 km), Electronic City (19 km), Outer Ring Road (16 km), Marathahalli, Silk Board & Koramangala etc.

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra

In 1975, when the principal opposition party leaders were arrested in the first hours of the Emergency, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Madhu Dandavate and Shyam Nandan Mishra and were detained together on 26 June in Bangalore, where they had gone to take part in a parliamentary commission.

Solar bus

Indian government has launched various projects to introduce new and efficient solar power buses and the buses will be launched in the city of Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The International School Bangalore

It was founded in 2001 by Dr. K. P. Gopalkrishna, and is a sister school of the National Public Schools, Bangalore.

The Oxford College of Science

The Oxford College of Science is a science college located in Bangalore, India under the The Oxford Educational Institutions.

Ulidavaru Kandanthe

The trailer was also released in theatres by Kannada actor Puneet Rajkumar, at the Triveni theatre, Bangalore the next day.


2001 Tennis Masters Cup

The doubles competition was set to take place in Bangalore, India but was cancelled because of security fears following the 11 September attacks.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Abbanakuppe

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

Acharya Pathasala Public School

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

Arcot Narrainswamy Mudaliar

Due to some family misfortune, his father Muniappa Mudaliar migrated to Bangalore with his three sons Narrainswamy, Muniswamy and Muthuswamy.

Arya 2

This song was played in Cricket stadiums during the breaks of Indian Premier League and 2011 Cricket World Cup held in Bangalore.

Azim Premji University

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

Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation

On 1 June 2009, to celebrate their first anniversary, the Government of Karnataka and the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation sold off a pro-poor bus service called the Atal Sarige.

Benjamin Heyne

He did a great deal of collecting at Coimbatore and Bangalore and compiled a large collection of plant specimens which were forwarded to London.

Dalian Software Park

Dalian has recently become an important center for information technology offshoring and business process outsourcing, similar to Bangalore in India; the city was described in "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (2007).

Dharmaraj Ravanan

Ravanan started his professional career at Dempo S.C., coach Armando Colaco saw him in Bangalore when he was playing for Chennai's Indian Bank and he gave him an opportunity and at 19 he joined them where he learned alot from his teammates.

E. Sampathkumar

Born and raised in Mallur village, Channapatna Taluk, Ramanagaram (District), outside of Bangalore, he earned a M.Sc.

Gennady Kuzmin

In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with Szabó, Tal and Timman), Baku 1977, Tallinn 1979, Kladovo 1980, Dortmund 1981 (with Speelman and Ftáčnik) and Bangalore 1981.

Hubtown Limited

Hubtown Limited (BSE:532799, NSE:HUBTOWNEQ), formerly known as Ackruti City Limited, is an Indian real estate development corporation with projects located in Mumbai, Pune, Gujarat and Bangalore.

Indigo 91.9 FM

Indigo 91.9 FM is Bangalore and Goa’s only international music station, and is part of Indigo Music brand by Jupiter Capital, which is a Venture Development, Management and Investment Company owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, based in Bangalore, India.

Indiranagar metro station

Indiranagar, also known as CMH Road metro station, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

K. R. Sreenivasan

Born in 1947, he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was awarded a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 1975 working with Prof. Roddam Narasimha.

Kerala Varma IV

Soon after his accession, Kerala Varma embarked on a tour of British India in order to improve his knowledge of the country and visited Coimbatore, Bangalore, Poona, Indore and Benares.

Kids of the Majestic

It was directed by Dylan Verrechia, and co-produced by Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of orphans in the Majestic railway station of Bangalore.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the Landmark Quiz was held in 6 cities Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.

Laxminagar Colony, Mehdipatnam

It is near the Gudimalkapur crossroads, near Mehdipatnam, on the Ring Road that leads to Bangalore from Hyderabad.

Malemngamba Meetei

After playing the final rounds of the 2nd Division in Bangalore, Meetei was signed by newly promoted HAL SC for the new I-League season.

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor

Mumbai-Bangalore corridor is expected to pass through different cities, Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Belgaum, Dharwad, Davangere, Haveri, Chitradurga and Tumkur.

N. Ahmed

Alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School; received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India in 1961;

Narayana Gowda

After 6 years, he returned to Bangalore to join the South India Computer Ltd, a hardware assembly company in Koramangala, and from there moved to the Vysya Bank and from there to start Pushpa Garments and put his hand into financing and the Srimata Audio Cassette company.

Nigerians in India

As of January 2012, there are about 10,000 Nigerians living and working in India but only 3,500 were registered with the Nigerian High Commission and they live in cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Jaipur.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Paul Jarvis

He bowled with good pace, and took four wickets in two Tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the man of the match award for taking 5 for 35 against India in Bangalore.

Prof. Aninhalli R. Vasavi

Previous Work Experience: 1997 to 2011 as Faculty at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Ray Jennings

Late in 2008 Jennings took over as head coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team in the Indian Premier League owned by the business tycoon Vijay Mallya.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Seema Mustafa

She also wrote a weekly op-ed column which was syndicated to several other newspapers, including The Deccan Chronicle of Bangalore, India and The Dawn newspaper of Pakistan.

Shobha Karandlaje

She was elected as MLA from Yeswanthpur, Bangalore in May, 2008 and was appointed as the minister for rural development and Panchayat Raj in the B.S. Yeddyurappa government.

South India Reformed Churches

Meanwhile 3 small congregatioons were established in Bagalur, Salem and Bangalore.

South United F.C.

South United Football Club was founded on 16 August 2012 at a gala in Bangalore by Lokko Sports India Pvt.

Swami Vivekananda Road metro station

Swami Vivekananda Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation SV Road, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

Vivek Kulkarni

He was the Information Technology & Biotechnology Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore.

WTR-Ten10 Racing

WTR-Ten10 refers to the team partnership between the WTR (San Marino) and Ten10 Racing (Bangalore, India) teams, which is structured on a three-year basis.

Yamuna Krishnan

Yamuna Krishnan (born 25 May 1974) is a Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India.