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Bandipur National Park

Bandipur National Park (Bandipur Tiger Reserve) is a 1469.69 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka, India, among the first nine Project Tiger reserves of 1973, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with 150 tigers (2022), 3,047 elephants, and the country's first eco-sensitive zone.

Bandish Bandits

Bandish Bandits is a Hindi musical drama on Amazon Prime Video (2020, Season 2 in 2024) created by Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari, starring Ritwik Bhowmik and Shreya Chaudhry as classical singer Radhe and pop star Tamanna, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in Season 1.

Bandit (film)

Bandit (2022) is a Canadian biographical crime film directed by Allan Ungar, starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Nestor Carbonell, and Mel Gibson, based on Robert Knuckle's book The Flying Bandit about robber Gilbert Galvan Jr.; released September 23, 2022 by Quiver Distribution.

Bandit algorithm

A bandit algorithm is a sequential decision-making method, named for the one-armed bandit slot machine, that repeatedly chooses an action, observes only its reward, and balances exploration against exploitation.

Bandit learning

Bandit learning is a reinforcement learning framework in which an agent repeatedly chooses among actions and observes only the chosen action's reward, balancing exploration and exploitation.

Bandit Queen

Bandit Queen (बैंडिट क्वीन), 1994 Hindi biographical drama by Shekhar Kapur starring Seema Biswas as outlaw Phoolan Devi; Cannes premiere, Indian censorship battle, National Film Award winner.

Banditaccia necropolis, Caere

Banditaccia is the main Etruscan necropolis of ancient Caere (Cerveteri, Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004 with thousands of house-like tombs in a city-like plan, used from the 9th century BC.

Banditry

Banditry is armed robbery and related property violence by outlaws outside state authority, also a political label criminalizing challenges to state power; studied via Hobsbawm's social banditry, Blok's critique, and cases from medieval Europe to Nigeria.

Bandits (2001 film)

Bandits is a 2001 American crime comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett as two escaped bank robbers and the housewife who joins them.

Bandırma power station

Bandırma power station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant on the Sea of Marmara near Bandırma, Turkey, owned by Enerjisa, with units commissioned in 2010 and 2016.

Bandkanon 1

Bandkanon 1 is a Swedish 155 mm self-propelled artillery gun with an automatic loader, built by Bofors and used by the Swedish Army from 1967 to 2003.

Bando

Bando is a traditional Welsh stick-and-ball team sport, related to hurling and shinty, popular in Glamorgan until the late nineteenth century and revived from 2025 by Campau Celtaidd Cymru.

Bando Stone & the New World

Bando Stone & the New World, also styled Bando Stone and The New World, is Childish Gambino's sixth and final studio album, released July 19, 2024 on RCA Records: 17 tracks serving as the soundtrack to Donald Glover's unreleased same-named film.

Bandolero!

Bandolero! is a 1968 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, and George Kennedy; outlaws flee a Texas hanging into Mexican bandit country.

Bandolier

A bandolier, also spelled bandoleer, is a shoulder belt worn across the chest to carry cartridges, used by soldiers from 17th-century musketeers to 20th-century troops.

Bandon, County Cork

Bandon (Droichead na Bandan) is a market town on the River Bandon in County Cork, Ireland, about 27 km southwest of Cork city. Founded as a walled plantation town in 1604 by English settlers under Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork; population 8,196 in 2022.

Bandpass filter

A bandpass filter is a circuit or device that transmits signals within a chosen band of frequencies and attenuates those outside it, letting receivers reject out-of-band interference and transmitters stay within licensed spectrum.

Bandpass filtering

Bandpass filtering is a signal processing method that passes frequencies within a chosen range and attenuates frequencies outside it, commonly used to isolate bands in EEG and ECG signals.

Bandra (वांद्रे)

Bandra (वांद्रे), a Mumbai suburb on southern Salsette Island, was a Portuguese Jesuit stronghold from 1534 and is now a premium residential and commercial district anchored by the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mount Mary Church, Bandra Fort, and large-scale MHADA cluster redevelopment.

Bandra Kurla Complex

Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai's planned second CBD on 370 reclaimed hectares of Mithi River marshland, is developed and governed by MMRDA, hosting the NSE, RBI, banks and consulates, with about 11 msf of offices and Metro Line 3.

Bandra–Worli Sea Link

The Bandra–Worli Sea Link, officially the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is an 8-lane, 5.6-kilometer bridge over the Arabian Sea connecting Bandra and Worli in Mumbai, opened in 2009.

Bands of America

Bands of America (BOA) is Music for All's national high school marching band circuit, with Regional, Super Regional, and Grand National Championships founded in 1976, scored 60% music and 40% visual under a criteria reference adjudication system.

Bandsaw

A bandsaw is a power saw that cuts with a continuous toothed steel blade running around two pulleys, used mainly for cutting curves in wood, metal, plastic, or meat.

Bandslam

Bandslam is a 2009 American teen musical comedy-drama directed by Todd Graff. It follows a music-obsessed high school outsider recruited to manage a rock band for a competition.

Bandstand

A bandstand, or music kiosk, is a raised, roofed, open-sided outdoor stage for musical bands that became the focal point of Victorian Britain's public parks, with over 1,500 built at its peak.

Bandu Patil

Bandu Patil (1936–1988) was an Indian field hockey player who won Olympic gold at the 1964 Tokyo Games and Asian Games silver in 1962.

Bandundu Province

Bandundu Province, former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1966–2015), capital Bandundu city (ex-Banningville); formed from Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe and split back into those three provinces in 2015.

Bandung

Bandung, capital of West Java, Indonesia, is a highland basin city near Jakarta, site of the 1955 Asian-African Conference that founded the Non-Aligned Movement, facing flooding, subsidence, and water challenges.

Bandung Conference

The Bandung Conference, formally the Asian-African Conference, was a meeting of 29 Asian and African governments held in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955, laying the foundation for the Non-Aligned Movement.

Bandung Institute of Technology

Bandung Institute of Technology (Institut Teknologi Bandung, ITB), Indonesia's oldest engineering school, founded 1920 as Technische Hoogeschool Bandung, inaugurated as ITB March 2, 1959; alma mater of Soekarno; state legal entity since 2000; QS 2025 rank 256.