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Komati power station

Komati power station was a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, owned by Eskom, shut down in October 2022, and slated for conversion to solar, wind, and battery storage.

Sep 27, 2026

Komatireddy Venkat Reddy

Komatireddy Venkat Reddy (born 1965) is an Indian National Congress politician who serves as a Telangana minister holding the Roads and Buildings and Cinematography portfolios.

Komatsu FrontRunner is an autonomous haulage system that runs driverless ultra-class haul trucks in open-pit mines, first deployed commercially in January 2008 at Codelco's Gabriela Mistral copper mine in Chile.

Komatsu Limited

Komatsu Limited, also known as Komatsu Ltd. (株式会社コマツ), is a Japanese maker of construction, mining, and forestry heavy equipment, founded in 1921 in Komatsu city, Ishikawa prefecture.

Komban

Komban (கொம்பன்) is a 2015 Tamil action drama directed by M. Muthaiah, starring Karthi as Kombaiah Pandian, with Lakshmi Menon and Rajkiran; Studio Green production released 1 April 2015 after a Madras High Court controversy.

Sep 19, 2026

Kombaphis

Kombaphis, also transmitted as Combaphis or Kombapheus, is a fictitious traitor priest in Ctesias' lost Persica, said to have betrayed Egypt to Cambyses II in 525 BC.

Kombo

Kombo was a Mandinka kingdom on the south bank of the Gambia River in present-day The Gambia, whose lands the British acquired between 1816 and the 1850s.

Oct 20, 2026

Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract

Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract, also called kombu or dashima extract, is an umami flavoring from Japanese kelp; GRAS-notified as GRN 123 (Fuji Foods, 2003) for soups, seasonings, and meat products, and rich in soluble iodine.

Kombu (昆布)

Kombu (昆布, konbu) is dried edible kelp, mainly Saccharina japonica, from Hokkaido; the base of dashi stock, source of umami discovered by Ikeda in 1908, and one of the richest food sources of iodine.

Kombucha

Kombucha, also called kōcha kinoko (red tea mushroom), is a lightly effervescent fermented sweetened tea made with a SCOBY culture; origins traced to China around 220 B.C., pH 2.5-4.2, under 0.5% alcohol, thin human health evidence.

Kombuseevi

Kombuseevi (கொம்புசீவி) is a 2025 Tamil rural action drama directed by Ponram, starring Sarathkumar and Shanmuga Pandian as villagers drawn into the ganja trade after the Vaigai Dam displaces 12 villages; released 19 December 2025.

Kome Oil and Gas Field

Kome Oil and Gas Field (Komé) is an oil field in the Doba Basin of southern Chad, discovered in 1977 and one of the three original Doba project fields.

Komedya

Komedya is a Philippine verse drama descended from the Spanish comedia, first staged in Cebu in 1598 and best known in its moro-moro form dramatizing battles between Christians and Moors.

Komeil Ghasemi

Komeil Ghasemi (کمیل قاسمی, born 1988) is an Iranian freestyle wrestler who won super-heavyweight gold at London 2012 and silver at Rio 2016, making him Iran's most decorated wrestler.

Komeito

Komeito (公明党, Clean Government Party), Japanese centrist party founded 17 November 1964 by the Sōka Gakkai Buddhist movement; LDP coalition partner since 1999, welfare-focused, security-cautious, with 7–8 million organized voters.

Komenda Wars

The Komenda Wars were conflicts fought from 1694 to 1700 on the Gold Coast of West Africa between the kingdom of Eguafo and the Dutch West India Company.

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), public tertiary teaching hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana; founded 1954 as Kumasi Central Hospital, teaching hospital since 1975; Ghana's second-largest, ~1,200 beds, KNUST medical training site, referral center for 13 of 16 regions.

Komi Can't Communicate (古見さんは、コミュ症です。)

Komi Can't Communicate (古見さんは、コミュ症です。) is Tomohito Oda's school comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday 2016–2025, 37 volumes, about shy Komi Shoko's goal of making 100 friends; adapted into a 2021 NHK drama and two OLM anime seasons on Netflix.

Komi Republic (Коми Республика)

Komi Republic (Коми Республика), a federal subject of Russia in northeast European Russia, capital Syktyvkar, founded 1921. Resource-extraction economy (oil, gas, coal, timber), Komi-Russian bilingual republic, home of the UNESCO Virgin Komi Forests.

Komi-Permyatskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug

Komi-Permyatskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug (Коми-Пермяцкий автономный округ, Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug) was a Komi-Permyak ethnic autonomy centered on Kudymkar, created 26 February 1925 and merged into Perm Krai on 1 December 2005.

Komikan

Komikan, also called el leoncito or la leona, is a traditional Mapuche two-player hunt board game on an alquerque board with an attached triangle: one puma piece captures dogs by jumping, while twelve dogs try to corner it.

Komiks

Komiks is the Filipino form of comics, a tradition of illustrated storytelling that arose in the 1920s, peaked as mass entertainment, and declined in the 1990s.

KOMIPO Incheon power station

The KOMIPO Incheon power station (인천발전본부) is an LNG-fired power complex in Seo-gu, Incheon, South Korea, owned by Korea Midland Power, with about 1,462 MW of combined cycle capacity.

Komitas (Կոմիտաս)

Komitas (Կոմիտաս), born Soghomon Soghomonyan (1869–1935), Armenian priest, composer, and pioneer ethnomusicologist; founder of the Armenian national school, collector of thousands of folk songs, composer of the 1914 Patarag liturgy.

Komite olimpiade indonesia

Komite Olimpiade Indonesia (KOI), Indonesia's National Olympic Committee, founded 19 January 1947 in Yogyakarta under Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, IOC-recognized 11 March 1952, first Olympics Helsinki 1952, independent from KONI since 2005.

Oct 3, 2026

Komm, süßer Tod

Komm, süßer Tod (Come Sweet Death) is a 2000 Austrian crime comedy by Wolfgang Murnberger, the first film adaptation of Wolf Haas's Brenner novels, starring Josef Hader as ex-detective Simon Brenner, an ambulance driver drawn into a murderous rivalry between Vienna ambulance services.