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Bharat (भारत)

Bharat (भारत) is one of the two official names of the Republic of India, an ancient Sanskrit name preserved in Article 1 of the Constitution since 1949.

Bharat (भारत) (film)

Bharat is a 2019 Hindi-language drama directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and starring Salman Khan, an official adaptation of the South Korean film Ode to My Father.

Bharat Adivasi Party (भारत आदिवासी पार्टी)

Bharat Adivasi Party (भारत आदिवासी पार्टी, BAP), an ECI-recognized State Party based in Dungarpur, Rajasthan, formed by a split from the Bharatiya Tribal Party; it won four Rajasthan Assembly seats in 2023 and one Lok Sabha seat in 2024.

Bharat Ane Nenu (భరత్ అనే నేను)

Bharat Ane Nenu (భరత్ అనే నేను) is a 2018 Telugu political action drama directed by Koratala Siva, starring Mahesh Babu as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Bharat Ram, with Kiara Advani; released 20 April 2018.

Bharat B. Aggarwal

Bharat B. Aggarwal, full name Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, is a biochemist who discovered TNF-α and TNF-β and led cytokine research at MD Anderson from 1989 to 2015.

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata (भारत भाग्य विधाता) is a 2026 Hindi survival thriller directed by Manoj Tapadia, starring Kangana Ranaut as nurse Geeta Madhav Gandhare at Cama Hospital during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks; released 12 June 2026, streaming on ZEE5 from 14 August 2026, unrelated to the 2002 film of similar name.

Bharat Bhushan (भारत भूषण)

Bharat Bhushan (भारत भूषण, 1920–1992), also Bharat Bhushan Bhalla, Hindi film actor and screenwriter; star of Baiju Bawra (1952) and Mirza Ghalib (1954), Filmfare winner, later bankrupt; distinct from later namesakes.

Bharat Bhushan Tiwari

Bharat Bhushan Tiwari (भरत भूषण तिवारी), 28, of Bilauti village, Bhojpur, Bihar, died in a contested June 17, 2026 police encounter after a livestreamed standoff, prompting a judicial inquiry and murder FIR.

Bharat Biotech

Bharat Biotech, formally Bharat Biotech International Limited, is an Indian biotechnology company in Hyderabad founded in 1996 by Krishna M. Ella and Suchitra Ella, known for the COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN.

Bharat Coking Coal

Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is an Indian state-owned coal mining company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India headquartered in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, that produces coking coal for steelmaking from the Jharia and Raniganj coalfields.

Bharat Desai

Bharat Desai (ભરત દેસાઈ) is an Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded the IT outsourcing firm Syntel in 1980 with $2,000 and sold it to Atos for $3.4 billion in 2018.

Bharat Durdasha

Bharat Durdasha (भारत दुर्दशा, "The Plight of India") is an allegorical Hindi play by Bharatendu Harishchandra portraying India's misery under British rule through personified characters.

Bharat Dynamics

Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) is an Indian state-owned manufacturer of guided missiles, including surface-to-air and anti-tank missiles, founded in 1970 and headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.

Bharat Electronics (भारत इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स लिमिटेड)

Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is an Indian state-owned defense electronics company under the Ministry of Defence. Founded in 1954, it is a Navratna company headquartered in Bengaluru.

Bharat Forge

Bharat Forge is an Indian engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Pune, founded in 1961, that produces forged crankshafts and chassis parts and leads the Kalyani Group.

Bharat Goenka

Bharat Goenka (भरत गोयनका) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Tally Solutions, maker of Tally accounting software, and received the Padma Shri in 2020.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (भारत हेवी इलेक्ट्रिकल्स लिमिटेड)

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (भारत हेवी इलेक्ट्रिकल्स लिमिटेड), commonly known as BHEL, is an Indian state-owned engineering and manufacturing company, incorporated in 1964 and headquartered in New Delhi, best known for power plant equipment.

Bharat Jalan

Bharat Jalan is an American materials scientist and Shell Chair professor at the University of Minnesota who develops hybrid molecular beam epitaxy for complex oxide films.

Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap

Bharat Ka Veer Putra - Maharana Pratap (भारत का वीर पुत्र - महाराणा प्रताप) is a Sony TV historical drama by Contiloe Entertainment on the Mewar ruler, premiered May 27, 2013, 539 episodes, introduced by Amitabh Bachchan.

Bharat Mata (भारत माता)

Bharat Mata, "Mother India," also called Bharathamba, is the personification of India as a mother goddess, usually shown as a saffron-clad woman who arose in the nineteenth century to inspire Indian nationalism.

Bharat Petroleum

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian state-controlled oil and gas company formed in 1976 from nationalized Burmah Shell assets, with refineries in Mumbai, Kochi, and Bina.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), formerly Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), is K. Chandrashekar Rao's Hyderabad-based party: founded 2001 for Telangana statehood, renamed October 2022, governed Telangana 2014-2023 (63, 88, then 39 seats).

Bharat Ratna (भारत रत्न)

Bharat Ratna (भारत रत्न), India's highest civilian award, instituted 1954; conferred for exceptional service in any field, recommended by the PM to the President. First awardees Rajagopalachari, Radhakrishnan, Raman; five conferred in 2024.

Bharat Singh Chaudhary

Bharat Singh Chaudhary (born 1959) is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and BJP member, elected from Rudraprayag in 2017 and 2022 and made a cabinet minister under Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Bharat Singh Kushwah

Bharat Singh Kushwah, born in 1970, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Gwalior in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Bharat stage emission standards

The Bharat stage emission standards are India's vehicle emission standards set by the Government of India, regulating pollutants from new vehicles sold in India since 2000.

Bharat Taxi (भारत टैक्सी)

Bharat Taxi (भारत टैक्सी) is India's first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, formally launched by Amit Shah in February 2026 with zero commission and no surge pricing.

Bharat-Bharati

Bharat-Bharati (भारत-भारती) is a 1912 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, divided into past, present, and future sections, whose popularity in the freedom movement led Gandhi to name Gupt Rashtrakavi.

Bharata (Ramayana)

Bharata (भरत) is Rama's brother in the Ramayana, son of Dasharatha and Kaikeyi, who refused the throne, placed Rama's sandals on it, and ruled Ayodhya as regent from Nandigrama during Rama's fourteen-year exile.

Bharata (भरत) (Mahabharata)

Bharata (भरत), son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala in the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, named 'the supported' by a celestial messenger, ancestor of the epic's Kurus and Pandavas and eponym of India's Sanskrit name, Bharata.