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Karnak temple in the Third Intermediate Period
The temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak in the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070-664 BC) was built mainly by high priests, Libyan kings, and Kushite pharaohs like Shoshenq I and Taharqo.
Karnal (करनाल)
Karnal (करनाल), Haryana city on NH-44 midway between Delhi and Chandigarh; basmati rice export hub with 300+ mills, four national farm-research institutes including NDRI, Kalpana Chawla's hometown, Smart City since 2017.
Karnal Sher Khan (کرنل شیر خان)
Karnal Sher Khan (کرنل شیر خان) was a Pakistan Army captain of the 12 Northern Light Infantry killed at Kargil on 7 July 1999 and posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider.
Karnali Blues
Karnali Blues (कर्नाली ब्लुज) is a 2010 Nepali novel by Buddhisagar that follows a boy and his father through far-western Nepal during the Maoist insurgency.
Karnali Pradesh
Karnali Pradesh (कर्णाली प्रदेश) is one of Nepal's seven federal provinces, established in 2015. Named after the Karnali River, it is the largest by area, the least populous, and has its capital at Surkhet.
Karnam Malleswari
Karnam Malleswari, Indian weightlifter from Voosavanipeta, Andhra Pradesh; won bronze in the 69 kg class at Sydney 2000 with a 240 kg total, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman, after world titles in 1994 and 1995.
Karnamag i Ardashir i Papagan
Karnamag i Ardashir i Papagan (Kārnāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pābagān) is a Middle Persian prose work narrating the life of Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian dynasty.
Karnamak-i Ardashir-i Papakan
The Karnamak-i Ardashir-i Papakan (کارنامگ ارتخشیر پاپکان), the Book of the Deeds of Ardashir son of Papak, is a Middle Persian prose work narrating the life of Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian dynasty.
Karnan (கர்ணன்) (1964 film)
Karnan (கர்ணன்), 1964 Tamil mythological epic by B R Panthulu starring Sivaji Ganesan as Karna and N T Rama Rao as Krishna; National Award winner, digitally restored and re-released in 2012.
Karnan (கர்ணன்) (2021 film)
Karnan (கர்ணன்) is a 2021 Tamil action drama directed by Mari Selvaraj, starring Dhanush, based on the 1995 Kodiyankulam caste violence, released 9 April 2021, streaming on Prime Video.
Karnaphuli
Karnaphuli (কর্ণফুলী), also Karnafuli, is a 270-km river in southeastern Bangladesh rising in Mizoram's Lushai Hills, flowing through the Chittagong Hill Tracts to the Bay of Bengal; it hosts Chattogram Port, the Kaptai dam, and the underused 3.4-km Bangabandhu tunnel.
Karnataka (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ)
Karnataka (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ), also called Mysore State until 1973, is a southwestern Indian state formed 1 November 1956, capital Bengaluru, 31 districts, 224-seat Assembly, Kannada-speaking, service-dominated economy.
Karnataka Bank
Karnataka Bank Limited, also known as Karnataka Bank Ltd, is a private-sector scheduled commercial bank headquartered in Mangaluru, Karnataka, founded in 1924, with roughly ₹1.9 trillion of business and 975 branches across 22 states.
Karnataka Bhasha Bhushana
Karnataka Bhasha Bhushana (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಭಾಷಾಭೂಷಣ) is a grammar of old Kannada written in Sanskrit sutras by Nagavarma II around 1145, and the oldest Kannada grammar extant.
Karnataka Council of Ministers
The Karnataka Council of Ministers is the executive wing of the Government of Karnataka. It is capped at 15% of the legislature and is currently led by D.K. Shivakumar.
Karnataka cricket team
Karnataka cricket team, formerly Mysore, the Karnataka State Cricket Association's men's first-class side based at Bengaluru's M. Chinnaswamy Stadium; multiple Ranji Trophy titles (eight per KSCA, six per ESPNcricinfo), five Vijay Hazare titles level with Tamil Nadu, and two Syed Mushtaq Ali titles.
Karnataka High Court
The High Court of Karnataka, based in Bengaluru's Attara Kacheri with benches at Dharwad and Kalaburagi, is Karnataka's top court, tracing to the Chief Court of Mysore (1884) and renamed in 1973, with 62 sanctioned judges.
Karnataka Legislative Assembly (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಧಾನಸಭೆ)
Karnataka Legislative Assembly (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಧಾನಸಭೆ), the lower house of Karnataka's bicameral legislature: 224 elected members plus one nominee, 36 SC and 15 ST reserved seats, sitting at Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru, tracing to the 1881 Mysore Representative Assembly.
Karnataka Legislative Council
Karnataka Legislative Council (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಧಾನ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು), Karnataka's upper house, founded in Mysore in 1907; 75 members from five electoral colleges; one of six Indian state councils.
Karnataka Police
Karnataka State Police (KSP), also Mysore State Police, is Karnataka's state law enforcement agency under the Karnataka Police Act 1963, headquartered in Bengaluru, headed by the DG & IGP, with 6 commissionerates and 7 ranges.
Karnataka Power
Karnataka Power is the electricity generation system of the Indian state of Karnataka, centered on the state-owned Karnataka Power Corporation Limited, incorporated in July 1970.
Karnataka Rajyotsava (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ)
Karnataka Rajyotsava (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ), also Kannada Rajyotsava or Karnataka Formation Day, is Karnataka's state festival on 1 November, marking the 1956 unification of Kannada-speaking regions and the 1973 renaming of Mysore State as Karnataka.
Karnataka State Film Awards
The Karnataka State Film Awards (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ) are Karnataka's state film honors for Kannada cinema, presented by the state government on 24 April, Dr Rajkumar's birth anniversary.
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is a state-owned corporation headquartered in Bengaluru that runs long-distance, express, and city buses across southern Karnataka and to neighboring states.
Karnaugh map
A Karnaugh map (K-map) is a grid-based method for simplifying Boolean algebra expressions, invented by Maurice Karnaugh at Bell Labs in 1953 for telephone switching circuits.
Karni Mata
Karni Mata (करणी माता) was a fifteenth-century Rajasthani woman revered as an incarnation of the goddess, and the kuldevi of the Rathore dynasties of Jodhpur and Bikaner.
Karni Mata Temple
The Karni Mata Temple, popularly called the rat temple, is a Hindu shrine at Deshnoke near Bikaner, Rajasthan, home to tens of thousands of sacred, worshipped rats.
Karnivool
Karnivool is an Australian progressive metal band formed in 1997 in Perth, fronted by Ian Kenny (also of Birds of Tokyo). Albums: Themata, Sound Awake, Asymmetry, and In Verses (2026), which debuted at number one on the ARIA chart.
Karnopp friction model
The Karnopp friction model is a static friction model introduced by Dean Karnopp in 1985 that represents stick-slip friction via a small velocity dead band around zero.
Karnov
Karnov (カルノフ) is Data East's 1987 arcade platform-shooter starring Jinborov Karnovski, a fire-breathing Russian strongman recovering the Treasure of Babylon across nine stages; ported to Famicom/NES by Namco and Data East, later a Data East mascot.