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Khadi and Village Industries Commission (खादी एवं ग्रामोद्योग आयोग)

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC, खादी एवं ग्रामोद्योग आयोग) is India's statutory body under the MSME Ministry, created by the 1956 Act, promoting khadi cloth and village industries, rural employment, and schemes like PMEGP and SFURTI.

Oct 15, 2026

Khadia Coal Mine

Khadia Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in the Singrauli Coalfield, India, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited with a capacity of 14 million tonnes per year.

Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد)

Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد), died 619 CE, was a wealthy Meccan merchant of the Quraysh, first and for 25 years only wife of the Prophet Muhammad, his employer before prophethood, first convert to Islam, and financier of the early Muslim community.

Khadija Kopa

Khadija Kopa, born 1963 in Zanzibar, is a Tanzanian taarab singer and songwriter known as the "Queen of Mipasho" and the mother of bongo flava star Zuchu.

Oct 22, 2026

Khadija Mastoor

Khadija Mastoor (خدیجہ مستور, 1927–1982) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer best known for Aangan, widely regarded as one of the finest Urdu novels.

Khadijah Farrakhan

Khadijah Farrakhan (Betsy Ross, 1936-2026), Mother Khadijah, First Lady of the Nation of Islam, wife of Louis Farrakhan for 72 years, married 1953, nine children, spoke at the 1997 Million Woman March.

Khadim Batti

Khadim Batti was an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the digital adoption platform company Whatfix in Bengaluru in 2014 and led it as chief executive until his death at 51.

Khadim Hussain Rizvi (خادم حسین رضوی)

Khadim Hussain Rizvi (خادم حسین رضوی) was a Pakistani Barelvi cleric who founded the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, led the 2017 Faizabad sit-in, and died in 2020.

Khadiradi gutika (afi afi-kadiradigutika)

Khadiradi Gutika (खदिरादि गुटिका), also Khadiradi Vati, is an Ayurvedic polyherbal pill based on Acacia catechu, listed in AFI Part I 12:6-12:7 and India's Essential Drug List for mouth, teeth, and throat diseases, sucked twice or thrice daily.

Khadirarista

Khadirarista (Khadirāriṣṭa, Khadirarishtam) is a classical Ayurvedic fermented liquid (arishta) built on Khadira (Acacia catechu), with honey, sugar, and Dhataki; contains 5–10% self-generated alcohol; traditionally used for skin diseases.

Khadne Dorsa

Khadne Dorsa is a 220 km dorsum (ridge) on Venus at 14 S, 334.5 E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Nenets (Samoyed) snowstorm maiden; it is the smallest named Venus dorsa feature.

Oct 20, 2026

Khadr el Touni

Khadr el Touni (خضر التوني, 1916–1956), Egyptian weightlifter, won the 1936 Berlin Olympic middleweight gold with a 387.5 kg total, 35 kg ahead, and later took three world titles (1946, 1949, 1950).

Khadzhimurat Gatsalov

Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (Хаджимурат Гацалов), Russian freestyle wrestler born 1982 in Chikola; 2004 Olympic 96 kg champion and five-time world champion (2005-2007, 2009 at 96 kg, 2013 at 120 kg); 2025 ITA doping case resolved with suspension lifted.

Khadzhimurat Magomedov

Khadzhimurat Magomedov (Хаджимурат Магомедов), born 1974 in Makhachkala, Russian freestyle wrestler; 1996 Atlanta Olympic middleweight (82 kg) champion, 2001 world champion at 85 kg, 1997 European champion.

Khaemhat

Khaemhat, also known as Mahu, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian official, royal scribe and Overseer of the Granaries of Upper and Lower Egypt under Amenhotep III.

Khaemwaset (son of Ramesses II)

Khaemwaset, also written Khaemweset, was a son of Ramesses II who served as High Priest of Ptah at Memphis and inscribed Old Kingdom monuments at Saqqara.

Khaemwaset (son of Ramesses III)

Khaemwaset was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III who served as sem-priest of Ptah and was buried in tomb QV 44 in the Valley of the Queens.

Khaemwaset (vizier)

Khaemwaset was governor of the city and vizier of Egypt under Ramesses IX, attested in years 16 and 17 of that reign during the late 20th Dynasty.

Khafajeh

Khafajeh (Khafaje), the site of the ancient city of Tutub, is a Sumerian archaeological site on the Diyala River east of Baghdad, known for its Early Dynastic Temple Oval.

Oct 15, 2026

Khafji Oil Field

The Khafji oil field is an offshore field in the Saudi–Kuwaiti Divided Zone on the Arabian Gulf shelf, discovered in 1960 and producing since 1961.

Khafre

Khafre (Chephren), Fourth Dynasty Egyptian king, son of Khufu, father of Menkaure; built Giza's second pyramid (143.5 m, cased in Tura limestone) and the Great Sphinx, with a granite valley temple and the statue Khafre Enthroned.

Khafre Enthroned

Khafre Enthroned is a life-size seated diorite statue of the Egyptian king Khafre from Dynasty 4, found in his Giza Valley Temple in 1860 and now in Cairo.

Khagan

Khagan (qaghan, ḵāqān) is the imperial title of Turkic and Mongolic rulers, equal to emperor, of Xianbei origin first recorded in 265 CE; Ögödei first took qa'an among the Mongol emperors.

Sep 23, 2026

Khagemba

Khagemba (খাগেম্বা) was a king of Manipur who reigned from 1597 to 1652, taking his name, meaning conqueror of the Chinese, after defeating a Chinese invasion in 1631.

Sep 27, 2026

Khagen Murmu

Khagen Murmu is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Maldaha Uttar in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after three terms as a CPIM legislator.

Khâgne

Khâgne: informal French name for the second year (officially Première supérieure) of the literary classes préparatoires, after hypokhâgne; A/L and B/L tracks preparing for ENS, IEP, and business-school concours.

Sep 24, 2026

Khai Dinh

Khai Dinh (Khải Định), personal name Nguyen Phuc Buu Dao, was emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty from 1916 to 1925 under the French protectorate, succeeding the deposed Duy Tan.

Oct 22, 2026

Khái Hưng

Khái Hưng (1896–1947), real name Trần Khánh Giư, was a Vietnamese novelist, playwright, and journalist from Hải Phòng, a leading writer of the Tự Lực văn đoàn literary group.