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Kaushalendra Kumar
Kaushalendra Kumar, born 1959, is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician who has represented the Nalanda constituency of Bihar in the Lok Sabha since 2009.
Kaushaljis vs Kaushal
Kaushaljis vs Kaushal (कौशलजी वर्सेस कौशल) is a 2025 Hindi family comedy-drama directed by Seemaa Desai, starring Ashutosh Rana, Sheeba Chaddha, Pavail Gulati, and Isha Talwar, streamed on JioHotstar from 21 February 2025.
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Kaushik Bhattacharya is a materials scientist and mechanician who is the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science at Caltech, known for his mathematical theory of martensitic microstructure.
Kaushik Chowdhury
Kaushik Chowdhury is an Indian-born American wireless networking researcher who won the PECASE award and holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kaushik Rai
Kaushik Rai is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Assam, holding food, housing, urban affairs, and cooperation portfolios; he is a resident of Lakhipur in Cachar district.
Kaushik Rajashekara
Kaushik Rajashekara is an Indian-born American electrical engineer who helped develop the GM EV1 propulsion system, worked at Rolls-Royce, and is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Houston.
Kaushik Subramanian
Kaushik Subramanian is a venture capital investor who serves as a Partner at EQT Ventures in London, where he invests in AI and fintech companies.
Kaushiki Chakraborty (কৌশিকী চক্রবর্তী)
Kaushiki Chakraborty (কৌশিকী চক্রবর্তী), born 1980 in Kolkata, is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala gharana, daughter and disciple of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty; BBC Radio 3 World Music Award winner (2005) and founder of Sakhi.
Kausik K. Ray
Kausik K. Ray is a British cardiologist and professor of public health at Imperial College London, known for trials of lipid-lowering drugs including inclisiran and bempedoic acid.
Kausik Si
Kausik Si is an Indian-born neuroscientist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, known for showing that prion-like protein aggregation serves memory storage in the brain.
Kausilumina
Kausilumina (කව්සිළුමිණ, also spelled Kavsilumina) is a thirteenth-century Sinhala mahakavya by King Parakramabahu II of the Dambadeniya period, versifying the Kusa Jataka in 770 verses across 15 cantos.
Kaustuv Bagchi
Kaustuv Bagchi (কৌস্তভ বাগচী), Indian BJP politician and lawyer, MLA from Barrackpur, West Bengal since May 2026. Former Congress spokesperson who resigned in 2024, joined the BJP, defeated TMC's Raj Chakraborty with 77,559 votes, known for a three-year baldness protest against the Mamata Banerjee government.
Kautalya
Kautalya (कौटिल्य), also written Kautilya and traditionally identified with Vishnugupta and Chanakya, is the name attached to the Arthashastra, a Sanskrit treatise on statecraft rediscovered in 1905.
Kauther/Fakhr Oil and Gas Field
Kauther/Fakhr (فخر) is an onshore condensate-rich gas field in northern Oman, discovered in 2001 and operated by Petroleum Development Oman, with a plant commissioned in 2007.
Kav Silumina
Kav Silumina, literally "the crest-gem of poetry", is a Sinhalese epic poem of thirteenth-century Ceylon, generally attributed to King Parakramabahu II and woven around the Kusa-jataka, the story of the Bodhisattva king Kusa.
Kava
Kava (Piper methysticum, kava kava, yaqona) is a South Pacific pepper-family plant whose water-extracted roots make a sedative, anxiolytic beverage; kavalactones act as CNS depressants, with rare liver injury prompting a 2002 FDA advisory and bans in Europe and Canada.
Kavacham (కవచం) (2018 film)
Kavacham (కవచం), also known as Inspector Vijay in Hindi, is a 2018 Telugu action thriller directed by debutant Sreenivas Mamilla, starring Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas as a framed cop, with Kajal Aggarwal, Mehreen Pirzada, and Neil Nitin Mukesh; released December 7, 2018, it flopped at the box office.
Kavad I
Kavad I (قباد یکم) was a Sasanian king of Persia who reigned from 488 to 496 and again from 498/499 to 531, passing a stable empire to his son Khosrow I.
Kavad I's deposition and restoration
Kavad I's deposition and restoration (برکناری و بازگشت قباد) was the removal of Sasanian king Kavad I by nobles and clergy in 496, and his return in 498 or 499.
Kavak
Kavak is a Mexico City-based e-commerce platform for buying, selling, financing, and servicing pre-owned cars, founded in 2016 by Venezuelan entrepreneurs and valued at US$8.7 billion in 2021.
Kaval Kottam
Kaval Kottam (காவல் கோட்டம்) is a 2008 Tamil historical novel by Su. Venkatesan covering 600 years of Madurai's history; it won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil.
Kavala (Καβάλα)
Kavala (Καβάλα), historically Neapolis and Christoupolis, is a port city in northeastern Greece on the Aegean Sea and the capital of the Kavala regional unit.
Kavalai Vendam
Kavalai Vendam (கவலை வேண்டாம்), 2016 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Deekay, starring Jiiva, Kajal Aggarwal, Bobby Simha, and Sunaina; released 24 November 2016, IMDb 5.1/10, streaming on Prime Video.
Kavalan Distillery (噶玛兰酒厂)
Kavalan Distillery (噶玛兰酒厂) is Taiwan's first whisky distillery, a single-malt plant in Yilan County owned by King Car, whose whiskies mature three to four times faster in subtropical heat and have won World's Best Single Malt.
Kavaludaari (ಕವಲುದಾರಿ)
Kavaludaari (ಕವಲುದಾರಿ, "crossroad") is a 2019 Kannada neo-noir crime thriller by Hemanth M. Rao, the first PRK Productions film, starring Rishi and Anant Nag; remade as Kapatadhaari and Kabadadaari.
Kavan (கவன்) (film)
Kavan (கவண், "catapult") is a 2017 Tamil social thriller directed by K. V. Anand, starring Vijay Sethupathi as journalist Thilak fighting corrupt TV baron Kalyan; AGS Entertainment, released 31 March 2017.
Kavanaugh stop
A Kavanaugh stop is an immigration stop based on perceived location, occupation, language, and ethnicity, named for Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo (2025), which allowed combined profiling factors as reasonable suspicion while barring ethnicity alone.
Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
The Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) is a 520,000 km² conservation landscape in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins, spanning Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and holding roughly half of Africa's savanna elephants.
Kavanin-i Yeniceriyan
Kavanin-i Yeniceriyan (قانوننامه ينيچرى, "The Laws of the Janissaries") is an anonymous 1606 Ottoman treatise by a serving Janissary setting out the corps' regulations, pay rules, and proposed reforms.
Kaveh
Kaveh (کاوه; also Kāva) was a Persian-language journal published in Berlin from 1916 to 1922 by nationalist Sayyed Ḥasan Taqizāda, funded by Germany during World War I.