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Bandi Sanjay Kumar (బండి సంజయ్ కుమార్)
Bandi Sanjay Kumar (బండి సంజయ్ కుమార్), BJP politician, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs since 2024, MP from Karimnagar, and BJP Telangana president 2020–2023.
Bandicoot
Bandicoots (Peramelemorphia) are rabbit-sized omnivorous marsupials of Australia and New Guinea with pointed snouts and conical foraging holes; gestation about 11 days, the shortest of any mammal; roughly half of Australian species are extinct or threatened.
Bandicota
Bandicota, bandicoot rats, genus of three murid rodent species (B. bengalensis, B. indica, B. savilei) in South and Southeast Asia; sister to Rattus, split about 2-2.5 Mya; lesser bandicoot rat is India's main agricultural rodent pest.
Bandidos (TV series)
Bandidos is a Mexican action-adventure comedy series released on Netflix in 2024, following a ragtag crew of bandits hunting a Mayan treasure no one has found.
Bandidos Motorcycle Club
Bandidos Motorcycle Club, founded March 1966 in San Leon, Texas, by Donald Chambers, is a one-percent outlaw motorcycle club and one of the world's largest OMGs, known for the fat Mexican patch, RICO convictions, and Hells Angels rivalry.
Bandini (बंदिनी) (TV series)
Bandini (बंदिनी), Hindi soap opera by Balaji Telefilms on NDTV Imagine, 19 January 2009 to 29 January 2011, about Santu (Aasiya Kazi) married to Dharamraj (Ronit Roy) in rural Gujarat; later rerun on Zee Anmol.
Bandini (बन्दिनी) (1963 film)
Bandini (बन्दिनी) is Bimal Roy's 1963 Hindi black-and-white drama starring Nutan, Ashok Kumar, and Dharmendra, adapted from Jarasandha's novel Tamasi; it won six Filmfare Awards and the President's Silver Medal and was Roy's last film.
Bandini Pietà
The Bandini Pietà, also called the Florentine Pietà or the Deposition, is a marble sculpture group Michelangelo carved in Rome between about 1547 and 1555.
Bandipur National Park
Bandipur National Park (Bandipur Tiger Reserve) is a 1469.69 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka, India, among the first nine Project Tiger reserves of 1973, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with 150 tigers (2022), 3,047 elephants, and the country's first eco-sensitive zone.
Bandish Bandits
Bandish Bandits is a Hindi musical drama on Amazon Prime Video (2020, Season 2 in 2024) created by Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari, starring Ritwik Bhowmik and Shreya Chaudhry as classical singer Radhe and pop star Tamanna, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in Season 1.
Bandit (film)
Bandit (2022) is a Canadian biographical crime film directed by Allan Ungar, starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Nestor Carbonell, and Mel Gibson, based on Robert Knuckle's book The Flying Bandit about robber Gilbert Galvan Jr.; released September 23, 2022 by Quiver Distribution.
Bandit algorithm
A bandit algorithm is a sequential decision-making method, named for the one-armed bandit slot machine, that repeatedly chooses an action, observes only its reward, and balances exploration against exploitation.
Bandit learning
Bandit learning is a reinforcement learning framework in which an agent repeatedly chooses among actions and observes only the chosen action's reward, balancing exploration and exploitation.
Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen (बैंडिट क्वीन), 1994 Hindi biographical drama by Shekhar Kapur starring Seema Biswas as outlaw Phoolan Devi; Cannes premiere, Indian censorship battle, National Film Award winner.
Banditaccia necropolis, Caere
Banditaccia is the main Etruscan necropolis of ancient Caere (Cerveteri, Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004 with thousands of house-like tombs in a city-like plan, used from the 9th century BC.
Banditry
Banditry is armed robbery and related property violence by outlaws outside state authority, also a political label criminalizing challenges to state power; studied via Hobsbawm's social banditry, Blok's critique, and cases from medieval Europe to Nigeria.
Bandits (2001 film)
Bandits is a 2001 American crime comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett as two escaped bank robbers and the housewife who joins them.
Bandırma power station
Bandırma power station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant on the Sea of Marmara near Bandırma, Turkey, owned by Enerjisa, with units commissioned in 2010 and 2016.
Bandkanon 1
Bandkanon 1 is a Swedish 155 mm self-propelled artillery gun with an automatic loader, built by Bofors and used by the Swedish Army from 1967 to 2003.
Bando
Bando is a traditional Welsh stick-and-ball team sport, related to hurling and shinty, popular in Glamorgan until the late nineteenth century and revived from 2025 by Campau Celtaidd Cymru.
Bando Stone & the New World
Bando Stone & the New World, also styled Bando Stone and The New World, is Childish Gambino's sixth and final studio album, released July 19, 2024 on RCA Records: 17 tracks serving as the soundtrack to Donald Glover's unreleased same-named film.
Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, and George Kennedy; outlaws flee a Texas hanging into Mexican bandit country.
Bandolier
A bandolier, also spelled bandoleer, is a shoulder belt worn across the chest to carry cartridges, used by soldiers from 17th-century musketeers to 20th-century troops.
Bandon, County Cork
Bandon (Droichead na Bandan) is a market town on the River Bandon in County Cork, Ireland, about 27 km southwest of Cork city. Founded as a walled plantation town in 1604 by English settlers under Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork; population 8,196 in 2022.
Bandpass filter
A bandpass filter is a circuit or device that transmits signals within a chosen band of frequencies and attenuates those outside it, letting receivers reject out-of-band interference and transmitters stay within licensed spectrum.
Bandpass filtering
Bandpass filtering is a signal processing method that passes frequencies within a chosen range and attenuates frequencies outside it, commonly used to isolate bands in EEG and ECG signals.
Bandra (वांद्रे)
Bandra (वांद्रे), a Mumbai suburb on southern Salsette Island, was a Portuguese Jesuit stronghold from 1534 and is now a premium residential and commercial district anchored by the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mount Mary Church, Bandra Fort, and large-scale MHADA cluster redevelopment.
Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai's planned second CBD on 370 reclaimed hectares of Mithi River marshland, is developed and governed by MMRDA, hosting the NSE, RBI, banks and consulates, with about 11 msf of offices and Metro Line 3.
Bandra–Worli Sea Link
The Bandra–Worli Sea Link, officially the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is an 8-lane, 5.6-kilometer bridge over the Arabian Sea connecting Bandra and Worli in Mumbai, opened in 2009.
Bands of America
Bands of America (BOA) is Music for All's national high school marching band circuit, with Regional, Super Regional, and Grand National Championships founded in 1976, scored 60% music and 40% visual under a criteria reference adjudication system.