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Sitaare Zameen Par (सितारे ज़मीन पर)
Sitaare Zameen Par (सितारे ज़मीन पर) is a 2025 Hindi sports comedy-drama directed by R. S. Prasanna, an official remake of Campeones and spiritual sequel to Taare Zameen Par, starring Aamir Khan as a coach serving community service training neurodivergent adults; it grossed ₹267.52 crore worldwide.
Sitagliptin
Sitagliptin (Januvia, Merck) is the first approved DPP-4 inhibitor for type 2 diabetes, FDA-approved October 2006; TECOS showed cardiovascular noninferiority and no heart failure risk versus placebo.
Sitakant Mahapatra
Sitakant Mahapatra (ସୀତାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର; born 1937) is an Indian poet and critic who writes in Odia and English, winning the Jnanpith Award in 1993 for his Oriya literature.
Sītāmarhi
Sītāmarhi (सीतामढ़ी), a Bihar district on the Nepal border created from Muzaffarpur in 1972, revered as Sita's birthplace at Punaura Dham; 3,423,574 people (2011), 2,294 sq km, flood-prone Bagmati basin.
Sitamun
Sitamun, also Sitamen or Satamun, was an Egyptian princess and queen consort of the 18th Dynasty, eldest daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye who became his Great Royal Wife.
Sitang - Irawaddy
Sitang - Irawaddy (FEOW ecoregion 720) is a freshwater ecoregion covering Myanmar's Sittang and Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) basins, a tropical floodplain-river habitat with 62 recorded endemic fish species and the critically endangered Ayeyarwady Irrawaddy dolphin.
Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Sitanshu Yashaschandra (born Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta, 1941) is an Indian Gujarati-language poet, playwright, and translator credited with establishing surrealism in Gujarati poetry, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri, and Saraswati Samman.
Sitapi Coronae
Sitapi Coronae is a 270-km-wide corona, a ring-shaped volcano-tectonic structure, on Venus at 36.5°S, 246.8°E, IAU-approved in 2006 and named for an Indonesian creator goddess.
Sitapur
Sitapur (सीतापुर) is a district in Lucknow division, Uttar Pradesh, India, named after Sita; population 4,483,992 (2011), 7 tehsils, agrarian economy, and the Naimisharanya pilgrimage site.
Sītāpur, Uttar Pradesh
Sītāpur (सीतापुर) is a city on the Sarayan river and district headquarters in Awadh, Uttar Pradesh, India; district population 4,483,992, formed by the British in February 1856, known for Naimisharanya.
Sitar
Sitar: long-necked plucked lute of Hindustani classical music, from Persian sehtar (three-stringed). Gourd resonator, movable curved frets, meend bends, and 11–13 tarab sympathetic strings under the frets; popularized globally by Ravi Shankar.
Sitara (సితార)
Sitara (సితార), also Sitaara, is Vamsy's 1984 Telugu musical romantic drama produced by Edida Nageswara Rao, starring Bhanupriya and Suman, with Ilaiyaraaja's music; it won the National Film Award for Best Telugu Feature Film. Distinct from the 1939 Hindi film, the 2015 Telugu thriller, and Love, Sitara (2024).
Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury (1952–2024) was general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 2015, a JNU student leader jailed during the Emergency, and the CPI(M)'s key interlocutor with the United Front and UPA coalitions who later helped build the INDIA bloc.
Sitare Foundatioin
"Sitare Foundatioin" is a misspelling referring not to a person but to the post-Google affiliation of Amit Singhal, who co-founded the Sitare Foundation in 2016.
Sitatunga
Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii), also called marshbuck, is a semiaquatic African swamp antelope with long splayed hooves, males horned, IUCN Least Concern, about 170,000 across roughly 25 countries.
Sitaxentan
Sitaxentan (sitaxsentan, Thelin), a selective endothelin-A receptor antagonist for pulmonary arterial hypertension, 100 mg once daily; withdrawn worldwide in December 2010 after fatal idiosyncratic liver injury.
Šitbořice
Šitbořice (German Schüttboritz), a wine-growing village in Břeclav District, South Moravia, 25 km southeast of Brno; first recorded 1255 as Sdeboric, with a Roman-period cremation cemetery of 47 graves and a medieval fort site called Hradisko.
SITC International
SITC International (海丰国际) is a Hong Kong container shipping and logistics company focused on intra-Asia trade, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as stock code 1308.
Sitcom
Sitcom (situation comedy): episodic TV comedy with a fixed cast and setting, from radio-era origins and I Love Lucy's multi-camera live-audience format to single-camera shows like The Office and Modern Family.
Sitdjehuti
Sitdjehuti, also written Satdjehuty, was a princess and queen of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, a sister-wife of Seqenenre Tao known almost entirely from her funerary equipment.
Site amplification
Site amplification is the amplification of earthquake ground motion as a function of frequency, produced when the soil-rock column beneath a site filters incoming seismic waves.
Site C dam
The Site C dam, formally the John Horgan Dam, is a BC Hydro hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northeast British Columbia, generating about 5,100 GWh yearly.
Site engineer
A site engineer is a construction professional based on a building site who sets out the works to design dimensions and supervises quality, safety, and daily execution.
Site license
A site license is a software agreement permitting use of a product at a single site, usually with unlimited end users, costing less than buying individual copies.
Site map
A site map is a file or page listing a website's URLs so search engines or people can find them; the XML form, sitemap.xml, is common.
Site of Beshbalik City
北庭故城遗址 (Site of Beshbalik City, Beiting Gucheng) is a 1.5 km² ruined medieval city in Jimsar County, Xinjiang, seat of the Tang Beiting Protectorate, Uyghur summer capital and Yuan Beshbalik; a 2014 UNESCO Silk Roads World Heritage site and Xinjiang's only national archaeological park.
Site of Han Chang'an City
汉长安城遗址 (Site of Han Chang'an City), capital ruins of the Western Han and Xin dynasties in northwest Xi'an; 36 km² walled city, 12 triple-gateway gates, Weiyang Palace UNESCO site since 2014, excavated since 1956.
Site of Palmyra
Site of Palmyra (Tadmor): UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980 in Syria's desert northeast of Damascus, a 1,640 ha caravan-city ruin with a 1,100 m colonnade, on the danger list since 2013 after ISIS destruction in 2015.
Site of Reversible Destiny
Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park (養老天命反転地), an experimental art-architecture park by Arakawa and Madeline Gins in Gifu, Japan, opened 1995, 18,100 sq m, built to challenge the body and reverse destiny.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI): UK designation for land of special flora, fauna, or geological interest, notified by Natural England under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; 4,127 English sites covering 1,088,000 hectares, with condition targets to 2042.