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42 unusual facts about Bangalore


100 Feet Road

Once lined with residential houses on either side, 100 feet road has, over the last few years, turned into one of the most commercially important streets in Bangalore.

ACTS Academy of Higher Education

ACTS Academy of Higher Education is an educational institution in Bangalore, India, which provides education through regular and distance-education mode.

Al-Ameen College of Education

Al-Ameen College of Education is an undergraduate college in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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.

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.

Brindavan college

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

C. Raja Raja Varma

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

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.

Compliant mechanism

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

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.

Echinococcus granulosus

The prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus was found to be 4.5% in Bangalore, India by a study conducted by Centre of Advanced Studies in Veterinary Parasitology, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore employing this coproantigen detection technique.

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.

Government Pharmacy College, Bangalore

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

Halasuru metro station

Halasuru (also called Ulsoor) is a station on the east-west line of the Namma Metro 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.

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.

KGF Academy

KGF Academy, formerly known as BEML FC, is an Indian football club from 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.

Madrigals Etc

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

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.

Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy

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

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.

National Academy For Learning

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

National Institute of Design

The R&D campus at the Bangalore established on 31 March 2006 offering 2 IT Integrated courses (Information and Interface Design, Design for Digital Experience and Design for Retail Experience).

Neelanjali Ruby

The ruby belongs to G. Vidyaraj and is reported to be in Bangalore, India.

Patel Sudhakar Reddy

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vijaya College, Bangalore

Vijaya College is a reputed educational institution in Bangalore, Karnataka, India established in the year 1942, situated on R.V. Road, Basavanagudi.

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.


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

Azim Premji University

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

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.

Center for American Education

International Center For Management and Indian Studies, formerly known as Center for American Education, Bangalore.

Chail Military School

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

Cox Town

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

Derek Prince

Peter Derek Vaughan Prince (14 August 1915, Bangalore – 24 September 2003, Jerusalem) was an international Bible teacher whose daily radio programme Derek Prince Legacy Radio (presently hosted by author Stephen Mansfield) broadcasts to half the population of the world in various languages.

Dilip Sankarreddy

He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore and a Full-Time MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

E. Sampathkumar

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

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.

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.

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.

Gulshan Devaiah

Gulshan was in fashion industry for about ten years and also taught at Wigan and Leigh College, 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.

Information technology in India

India holds observer status at CERN, while a joint India-EU Software Education and Development Center will be located in Bangalore.

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.

Klára Dobrev

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

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Krishna Bharat

He completed his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Lakshmi Tatma

She was the subject of a surgery carried out by Dr. Sharan Patil and 30 other physicians which included Chief Anesthetist Dr. Yohannan John at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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.

Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor

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

Nafis Fathima

She has held various positions like the Vice-President of the Karnataka State Industrial Bank Ltd., Member of Programme Committee, Doordarshan, Bangalore, Member of ZRUCC, Southern Railways, Member of Advisory Committee, All India Radio, and Memberof the Family Planning Association of India.

Namma Metro

A statue of Dalit leader Ambedkar has caused controversy, as it stands above the planned metro rail line near Bangalore's Vidhan Soudha.

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.

Sankighatta

Public and private transport is also available from Bangalore, Tumkur, Kunigal, Nelamangala.

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.

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.

Siege of Goorumconda

The Siege of Goorumconda (15 September – 25 December 1791) was a series of conflicts fought at Goorumconda, a hill fort northeast of Bangalore, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.

South India Reformed Churches

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

Sri Pralayakala Veerabadrar temple

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

Srujan Lokesh

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

Thottikallu

SwarnaMukhi translates as 'Golden-Faced' de route at Kagalpura (Kaggalipura) off the Bangalore - Kanakapura road will lead to a place called Byalemaradadoddi, from where a mud road leads to the falls.

Tiger of Segur

Two days later, just as Anderson considered leaving for Bangalore, a Badaga child was taken in Segur whilst taking a midday meal to his father.

Yamuna Krishnan

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