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History of Bangalore. Inscription stone at Beguru, Bengaluru, dated to the 9th century CE mentioning the name "Bengaluru" for the first time. Bangalore is the capital city of the state of Karnataka. Bangalore, as a city, was founded by Kempe Gowda I, who built a mud fort at the site in 1537. But the earliest evidence for the existence of a ...
Bangalore ( / ˈbæŋɡəlɔːr, ˌbæŋɡəˈlɔːr / BANG-gə-lor, -LOR ), officially Bengaluru ( Kannada pronunciation: [ˈbeŋgɐɭuːɾu] ⓘ; ISO: Beṁgaḷūru ), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than 8 million[citation needed] and a metropolitan population of ...
The Satellite Town Ring Road ( STRR, [ 1] NH 948A) is a 280.8-kilometre (174.5 mi) ring road under construction around Bangalore city, the capital of Karnataka state in India. [ 2] The project is being developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under Bharatmala Pariyojana. The entire STRR project involves a length of 367 ...
Geodesy. The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System ( IRNSS ), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, nāvik 'sailor' or 'navigator' in Indian languages), [ 2] is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing services. [ 3]
Chandrayaan-2 ( pronunciation ⓘ; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after Chandrayaan-1.
Bangalore is situated in the southeast of the South Indian state of Karnataka. It is positioned at 12.97° N 77.56° E and covers an area of 2,190 square kilometres (850 sq mi). A landlocked city, Bangalore is located in the heart of the Mysore Plateau (a region of the larger Deccan Plateau) at an average elevation of 920 metres (3,020 ft).
Udupi Ramachandra Rao (10 March 1932 – 24 July 2017) was an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. [1] He was also the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and Nehru Planetarium at Bengaluru and chancellor of the Indian Institute for Space Science and Technology at Thiruvananthapuram. [2]
Lal Bagh. / 12.95; 77.59. Lalbagh Botanical Garden or simply Lalbagh ( lit. 'red garden' ), is an botanical garden in Bangalore, India, with an over 200-year history. First planned and laid out during the dalavaiship of Hyder Ali, the garden was later managed under numerous British Superintendents before Indian Independence.