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Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is an Indian politician and physician who has represented Barasat in the Lok Sabha since 2009, and who left the Trinamool Congress in 2026.
Kakolyadi Cirna
Kakolyadi Cirna (Kakolyadi Churna): powdered Ayurvedic preparation of the Kakolyadi gana, an 18-drug group from Sushruta Samhita overlapping the Ashtavarga; sweet, cooling, Vatapittahara, dosed 3–6 g with milk or honey, used in wound pastes, poultices, and Chyavanaprasha.
Kakongo
Kakongo was a precolonial kingdom on the Atlantic Loango coast north of the Congo River, one of three sister kingdoms alongside Loango and Ngoyo, with its port at Malemba.
Kakori conspiracy
Kakori conspiracy, also Kakori Train Action or Kakori Train Robbery: 9 August 1925 HRA robbery of government treasury from the Number 8 Down train near Lucknow; four leaders, including Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan, hanged in December 1927; led to the HSRA in 1928.
Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant
The Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant, officially the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS), is a nuclear plant near Surat, Gujarat, India, operated by NPCIL with four reactors totaling 1,840 MWe.
Kakuban
Kakuban (覚鑁, 1095–1143), honored after his death as Kōgyō Daishi, was a Japanese Shingon Buddhist monk of the late Heian period who founded the Shingi tradition.
Kakuda Space Center
Kakuda Space Center (角田宇宙センター) is the rocket propulsion research and development center of JAXA in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, testing liquid rocket engines, turbopumps, and scramjets.
Kakure Kirishitan (隠れキリシタン)
Kakure Kirishitan (隠れキリシタン), or Hidden Christians, are Nagasaki-area communities that secretly practiced Christianity under Japan's 1614–1873 ban, then largely chose not to rejoin the Catholic Church.
Kakuro
Kakuro, also called Cross Sums or kasan kurosu, is a crossword-style logic puzzle: fill white cells with digits 1-9 so each run sums to its clue with no repeats. Invented in 1950s America, renamed by Japan's Nikoli in 1980.
Kakusandha Thera
Kakusandha Thera (කාකුසන්ද තෙරා) was a Sri Lankan Theravada monk of the fifteenth century, known to scholarship only as the author of the Sinhalese Dhātuvamsa, a chronicle of the Buddha's relics.
Kakusthavarma
Kakusthavarma (ಕಕುಸ್ಥವರ್ಮ), also written Kakusthavarman, was a powerful Kadamba king of Karnataka who reigned c. 425–450, remembered for marriage alliances with the Guptas, Vakatakas, Gangas, and Alupas.
Kakusthavarman
Kakusthavarman (ककुस्थवर्मन्) was a king of the Kadamba dynasty who ruled from about 425 to 450, known for marrying his daughters into the Gupta and Vakataka royal families.
Kakutsa Cholokashvili
Kakutsa Cholokashvili (ქაქუცა ჩოლოყაშვილი), born Kaikhosro Cholokashvili, was a Georgian nobleman and colonel who led anti-Soviet guerrilla resistance, commanded the failed 1924 uprising, and died in French exile in 1930.
Kakuyid dynasty
The Kakuyid dynasty (آل کاکویه) was a Daylamite dynasty of western Persia that ruled Isfahan and Hamadan independently from about 1008 until Toghril Beg took Isfahan in 1051.
Kakwa (Alberta gas field)
Kakwa is a liquids-rich natural gas and condensate producing area in the Montney Formation of west central Alberta, 75 kilometers south of Grande Prairie, operated since 2025 by ARC Resources.
Kakwa Oil and Gas Field
Kakwa is a liquids-rich natural gas and condensate field in the Montney formation of west central Alberta, 75 kilometers south of Grande Prairie, producing 153,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2021.
Kal Bhairav Temple, Ujjain
Kal Bhairav Temple (काल भैरव मंदिर) is a Shaiva temple on the Shipra river in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, dedicated to Kal Bhairav, a fierce form of Shiva, and known for devotees offering liquor to the deity.
Kal Ho Naa Ho (कल हो ना हो)
Kal Ho Naa Ho (कल हो ना हो), also known as Tomorrow May Never Come, is a 2003 Hindi romantic drama directed by Nikkhil Advani, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, and Saif Ali Khan, set in New York with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
Kal Ho Naa Ho (कल हो ना हो) (soundtrack)
Kal Ho Naa Ho (कल हो ना हो) soundtrack: 2003 Hindi-film album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, lyrics Javed Akhtar, Sony Music India, 7 tracks/38 minutes; Sonu Nigam's title track won National Film and Filmfare honors.
Kal Ki Awaz
Kal Ki Awaz (कल की आवाज़), 1992 Hindi action film by B.R. and Ravi Chopra, starring Dharmendra as a police commissioner whose daughter is kidnapped; music Nadeem-Shravan.
Kal Penn
Kal Penn (Kalpen Suresh Modi) is an American actor known for Kumar in Harold & Kumar, Kutner on House, and Seth Wright on Designated Survivor, and a former Obama White House Office of Public Engagement associate director (2009–2011) and memoirist.
Kal So-won (갈소원)
Kal So-won (갈소원), born 2006, is a South Korean actress famous as young Ye-seung in Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013), the youngest Daejong Best Actress nominee, now working in adult roles such as Lead Male Character Search (2025).
Kala (album)
Kala is the 2007 second studio album by British artist M.I.A., named after her mother, recorded across India, Africa, Trinidad, Australia, and London, produced mainly by Switch, scoring 87 on Metacritic and yielding the triple-platinum hit Paper Planes.
Kala (കള) (2021 film)
Kala (കള) is a 2021 Malayalam psychological action thriller directed by Rohith VS, starring Tovino Thomas as Shaji, whose killing of a worker's dog triggers a single-day violent revenge duel; released 25 March 2021, later on Amazon Prime Video.
Kala Bhavana
Kala Bhavana, the Institute of Fine Arts, is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, West Bengal, founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1919.
Kala Bio (KALA BIO, Inc.)
Kala Bio is an Arlington, Massachusetts biopharmaceutical company incorporated in 2009, which discontinued its lead eye-disease drug KPI-012 in 2025 and pivoted to AI platforms.
Kala Ghoda Poems
Kala Ghoda Poems is a 2004 collection of 28 English poems by Indian poet Arun Kolatkar, observing Mumbai's Kala Ghoda district from a restaurant table; it appeared weeks before his death.
Kala namak
Kala namak (Hindi: काला नमक), also called Himalayan black salt, is a South Asian kiln-fired salt with a sulfurous, egg-like odor, used in chaat and vegan egg dishes.
Kala Patthar
Kala Patthar ("black rock") is a 5,545–5,644 m viewpoint on Pumori's south ridge above Gorak Shep, Nepal, the classic spot to see Everest's summit, which is hidden from Everest Base Camp itself.
Kala Wewa (කලා වැව)
Kala Wewa (කලා වැව), also called Kala-Balaluwewa, is an ancient reservoir in Sri Lanka's Kala Oya basin, traditionally built by King Dhatusena in the 5th century AD and feeding the Yoda Ela canal toward Anuradhapura.