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Uttama (Chola dynasty)
Uttama Chola (Parakesarivarman, Madhurantaka Uttama Chola), Chola king of Tanjore reigning about 970–985 CE, uncle and predecessor of Rajaraja I; known from the Madras Museum copper plates and his Kanchipuram temple endowments.
Uttama Villain (உத்தம வில்லன்)
Uttama Villain (உத்தம வில்லன்), 2015 Tamil meta comedy-drama directed by Ramesh Aravind, written by and starring Kamal Haasan as dying superstar Manoranjan; K. Balachander's final film, delayed release, Ghibran music.
Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta
Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta, known as U.N. Mehta (1924–1998), was an Indian businessman who founded the Torrent Group, an Ahmedabad-based conglomerate spanning pharmaceuticals and electric power.
Uttar Da Puttar
Uttar Da Puttar (उत्तर दा पुत्तर) is a 2026 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Ravinder Siwach, starring Annu Kapoor as a Delhi physics teacher obsessed with Vastu.
Uttar Dinajpur
Uttar Dinajpur, also called North Dinajpur (উত্তর দিনাজপুর), is a district of West Bengal, India, created in 1992 from West Dinajpur, with its headquarters at Raiganj.
Uttar Pradesh (उत्तर प्रदेश)
Uttar Pradesh (उत्तर प्रदेश) is India's most populous state, with about 17 percent of the national population, 75 districts, and an area of 2,40,928 square kilometers. Renamed from the United Provinces on 26 January 1950.
Uttar Pradesh cricket team
Uttar Pradesh cricket team (formerly United Provinces), an Indian domestic first-class side run by the UPCA, playing Ranji Trophy, Vijay Hazare, and Syed Mushtaq Ali cricket; one Ranji title (2005-06), home grounds Green Park Kanpur and Ekana Stadium Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (उत्तर प्रदेश विधान सभा, Vidhan Sabha), lower house of UP's bicameral legislature at Lucknow: 403 elected seats, five-year term, largest state assembly in India, 18th house seated 2022.
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (उत्तर प्रदेश विधान परिषद, Vidhan Parishad) is the 100-member upper house of UP's bicameral legislature, tracing to the 1887 North Western Provinces and Oudh council, bicameral since 1937, distinct from the 403-seat Assembly.
Uttar Pradesh Police (उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस)
Uttar Pradesh Police (उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस), India's largest state police force with about 3.73 lakh personnel under a DGP, governed by the 1861 Police Act, headquartered at Prayagraj, with commissionerates, UP100, WCSO, and Vigilance wings.
Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation
Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is the state-owned utility that procures, transmits, and supplies electricity across Uttar Pradesh, India, headquartered in Lucknow and created in 1999.
Uttara Kannada (ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ)
Uttara Kannada (ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly North Kanara, is Karnataka's forested coastal district: 10,277 sq km, 140 km coastline, 1,437,169 people (2011), 84.06% literacy, 12 taluks, Kali and Sharavati rivers, Kaiga nuclear plant.
Uttaradit
Uttaradit (อุตรดิตถ์), a province in lower northern Thailand on the Nan River; name means port of the north; 7,838.59 km², 9 districts, about 389,300 people (2025), home to Sirikit Dam, Thailand's largest earth dam.
Uttaradit Aquaculture Genetics Research and Development Center
Uttaradit Aquaculture Genetics Research and Development Center (ศูนย์วิจัยและพัฒนาพันธุกรรมสัตว์น้ำ อุตรดิตถ์) is a Thai government fisheries research center in Tron District, Uttaradit Province, breeding improved farmed fish.
Uttarakhand (उत्तराखण्ड)
Uttarakhand (उत्तराखण्ड), formerly Uttaranchal, is a Himalayan state of northern India formed 9 November 2000 as the 27th state from Uttar Pradesh; capital Dehradun, area 53,483 sq km, origin of the Ganga and Yamuna.
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue
The Uttarakhand tunnel rescue, also called the Silkyara tunnel rescue, freed 41 workers trapped by the 12 November 2023 collapse of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarkashi after 17 days, using auger drilling, vertical shafts, and rat-hole mining with zero fatalities.
Uttaramerur inscriptions
The Uttaramerur inscriptions (உத்திரமேரூர் கல்வெட்டு) are two records of 919 and 921 CE from Uttaramerur, Tamil Nadu, issued under Chola king Parantaka I, detailing how the village assembly chose committees by drawing lots.
Uttaran
Uttaran is an Indian television serial that aired on Colors TV from 2008 to 2015, following the friendship of Ichcha, a maid's daughter, and the rich Tapasya.
Uttararamacharita
Uttararamacarita (उत्तररामचरितम्, "The Later Deeds of Rama") is a Sanskrit drama in seven acts by Bhavabhuti, famed for its pathos and its happy reunion of Rama and Sita.
Uttawar forced sterilisations
Uttawar forced sterilisations: the 6 November 1976 police raid on the Meo Muslim village of Uttawar, Haryana, during India's Emergency, in which 180 of about 550 detained villagers were forcibly vasectomised, documented by the Shah Commission.
Uttiya (warrior of Vattagamani)
Uttiya (उत्तिय) was, per the Mahavamsa, one of seven warriors of King Vattagamani Abhaya of Anuradhapura in the first century BCE, who built the Dakkhina-vihara south of the city.
Uttiya Basu
Uttiya Basu is an RNA biologist and immunologist, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University, who studies how the RNA exosome shapes antibody diversification and genome stability.
Utu-hengal
Utu-hengal, also written Utu-hegal or Utu-khegal, was a Sumerian king of Uruk who defeated the Gutian king Tirigan and briefly restored Sumerian rule around 2120 BC.
Utu-hengal's war against the Gutians
Utu-hengal's war against the Gutians was the campaign of Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, against the Gutian king Tirigan around 2120 BC, ending Gutian rule over Sumer.
Utuado, Puerto Rico
Utuado (Ciudad del Viví) is a mountain municipality in central Puerto Rico, founded 1739, named for the Taíno cacique Otoao. 2020 population 28,287; home to the Caguana Taíno ceremonial site and coffee haciendas.
Utupurshi
Utupurshi (Utupursi) was king of Diauehi, a highland kingdom near modern Erzurum with its capital at Şaşilu, who submitted to the Urartian king Menua around 810 BC and paid annual tribute.
Utus
Utus is the ancient Latin name of the Vit River in northern Bulgaria, a Danube tributary in Roman Moesia that marked a position on the Danube frontier.
Utusan Zaman
Utusan Zaman was a Malay-language weekly newspaper launched in Singapore on 5 November 1939 as the Sunday edition of Utusan Melayu, first edited by Abdul Rahim Kajai.
UTV herbarium
UTV herbarium (Museo Erbario della Tuscia), University of Tuscia, Viterbo; founded 1990 from the Scoppola donation, Index Herbariorum acronym UTV since 1996; about 40,000 dried specimens in 460 packets, computerized since 1997.
UTV Motion Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures (Disney UTV), Mumbai film studio founded 1996 by Ronnie and Zarina Screwvala as UTV Software's film arm; acquired by Disney for $450 million in 2012, shut down 2017; known for Rang De Basanti, PK.