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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.

Amit Bagaria

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

Anand Narayan

After graduation he went on to become a software engineer, based out of Bangalore.

Arcot Narrainswamy Mudaliar

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

Baiyappanahalli metro station

Baiyappanahalli metro station is the eastern terminal point on the east-west corridor of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Bangalore Astronomical Society

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

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.

Cartosat-2A

The satellite's health is continuously monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC network of stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia, Biak in Indonesia and Svalbard in Norway.

Compliant mechanism

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

École de design Nantes Atlantique

It is located on the technological campus Atlanpole la Chantrerie in Nantes, alongside businesses and engineering schools, as well as in Shanghai (China) and Bangalore (India).

Garden City College, Bangalore, India

Garden City College, established in the year 1992, was founded by Dr. Joseph V.G - the Honorary Consul of The Republic of Maldives in Bangalore.

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.

Indian Space Research Organisation Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network

These facilities are grouped under ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) with its headquarters at 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. 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.

Klára Dobrev

Dobrev spent her internship at MODI XEROX as a marketing assistant at Bangalore, India.

Madrigals Etc

Madrigals Etc is a predominantly vocal music group based in Bangalore, India.

Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station

Mahatma Gandhi Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation MG Road, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Morris Travers

In 1901-1902 Ramsay had been asked to advise the Indian government on the founding of a science institute and the institute was established in Bangalore with the help of the Government of Mysore and JN Tata.

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.

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.

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.

Shani

This temple called Shree Saneshwara Temple is situated east of the Shivaji statue at the junction of Chembur, Deonar, Govandi on (Mumbai-Pune-Bangalore) Eastern Express Highway.

Shekhar Seshadri

Shekhar P. Seshadri is a psychiatrist and professor of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in NIMHANS, Bangalore.

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.

Sony India Private Limited

Among these, Sony India Software Centre (SISC), located in Bangalore—India’s Silicon Valley—has expanded notably in recent years.

Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theater

The main campaign lasts from attack on Pearl Harbor until 1947, and takes place on a map stretching from Novosibirsk and Bangalore in the west to California in the east, and from Bering Strait in the North to the southern coast of New Zealand in the south.

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.

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.

Trinity metro station

Trinity is a station in the east-west line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Ulidavaru Kandanthe

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

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.


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.

Arya 2

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

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.

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.

C. Raja Raja Varma

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

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.

Chail Military School

In 1952, these institutions at Nowgong, Ajmer, Belgaum and Bangalore were re-designated to King Georges School (KGS).

Chennai Central–Bangalore City line

The Chennai Central–Bangalore City line (popularly known as Chennai-Bangalore line) connects the main railway stations in two of the larger cities in India - Chennai Central in Tamilnadu and Bangalore City in Karnataka.

Chronicles of the Canongate

Following his directions, he accompanied a troop of native cavalry to Tippoo's encampment near Bangalore, and witnessed his return thither, escorted by a magnificent bodyguard, including artillery and elephants.

Cox Town

Sarvagnanagar, area of Bangalore, India, formerly known as Cox Town

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.

Government Pharmacy College, Bangalore

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

Handcrafting Justice

These employment projects often have a local market focus, such as a cooperative laundry run in Davao, Philippines, a jam-making enterprise in Baguio, Philippines, a leather goods site in Bangalore, India, a small bakery in Peru, and a welding project in El Obeid, Sudan.

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

IIIT-B is in Electronics City, Bangalore, which is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks and which houses major electronics and IT corporations that include Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Flextronics, amongst others.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and 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.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the landmark quiz was once again held in each of the 4 cities Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai and the winner and runner up from each city went onto to the national finals which was held on 15 August 2011 after the Chennai Regional finals.

Lauren LoGiudice

During her tenure in Bangalore, India, she worked with a non-profit organization that served victims of AIDS and studied Bharata Natyam.

Lavelle Road

The road starts from the Queens Road end of the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium and after curving in a serpentine manner meets its destination at the junction of Bangalore Club with Richmond Circle.

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.

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;

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.

Prof. Aninhalli R. Vasavi

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

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.

Sankey tank

The quality of water was not very good and when Lord Connemara, Governor of Madras visited in July 1888 it was commented upon by a local wit: "The men who are thrown off their horses and killed on the spot at Bangalore are the only ones that are allowed by doctors not to have died from drinking bad water".

Sathyamangalam

The nearest airport is Coimbatore International Airport, which is 65 km by road, which has regular flights to New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Sharjah and Singapore.

Sharada Srinivasan

She had a photo-exhibition in June 2008 at Alliance Française Bangalore entitled 'Cosmic Dance of Shiva' on art-science-dance perspectives related to South Indian bronzes and the Nataraja.

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.

Sri Pralayakala Veerabadrar temple

Sri Pralayakala Veerabadrar temple, located in Kavipura, Guddahallii, Bangalore, is a temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Pralayakala Veerabadrar.

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.

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.

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.

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.