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Bandar Baleela (بندر بن عبد العزيز بليلة)
Bandar Baleela (بندر بن عبد العزيز بليلة) is a Saudi scholar born in Makkah in 1975 who serves as imam and khatib of the Grand Mosque.
Bandaru Dattatreya (బండారు దత్తాత్రేయ)
Bandaru Dattatreya (బండారు దత్తాత్రేయ), born 1947, is an Indian BJP leader from Telangana, four-time Secunderabad Lok Sabha MP, former Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, and Governor of Himachal Pradesh and then Haryana (2021–2025).
Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy
Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy (బండారు సత్యనారాయణమూర్తి) is a Telugu Desam Party politician, MLA for Madugula since June 2024, formerly three-term Paravada MLA (1989-1999) and minister under N. T. Rama Rao and Chandrababu Naidu. Distinct from Justice M. Satyanarayana Murthy.
Bandaru Sravani Sree
Bandaru Sravani Sree (బండారు శ్రావణి శ్రీ), TDP politician, is MLA for Singanamala (SC), Andhra Pradesh, elected in 2024 with 102,957 votes and an 8,788 margin after losing the seat in 2019; distinct from other Bandaru politicians.
Bandeira campaigns against the Jesuit missions of Guairá
The Bandeira campaigns against the Jesuit missions of Guairá (Expedições bandeirantes ao Guairá) were slave-raiding expeditions by São Paulo bandeirantes that destroyed the Guairá Jesuit missions from 1628 into the early 1630s.
Bandeira of Antônio Rapôso Tavares
The Bandeira of Antônio Rapôso Tavares, or Bandeira de Antônio Rapôso Tavares, was a Portuguese colonial expedition that traveled from São Paulo to the Amazon mouth between 1648 and 1651.
Bandeira of Fernão Dias Pais
The Bandeira of Fernão Dias Pais (Bandeira de Fernão Dias Pais) was a Paulista expedition that left São Paulo in 1674 to search for emeralds and silver in Minas Gerais.
Bandeirantes
Bandeirantes (bandeiras, bandeirantismo) were São Paulo-based colonial expeditions of the 16th to 18th centuries that enslaved Indigenous people and probed Brazil's interior, later turned into a paulista heroic myth and now heavily revised.
Bandhan Bank (বন্ধন ব্যাংক)
Bandhan Bank (বন্ধন ব্যাংক) is an Indian universal bank that grew out of a microfinance institution founded in 2001 and began banking operations in 2015.
Bandi
Bandi (班第) was a Qing dynasty official and general who served the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong emperors, captured Yili in 1755, and killed himself when Amursana rebelled.
Bandi Chhor Divas (ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ ਦਿਵਸ)
Bandi Chhor Divas (ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ ਦਿਵਸ), "Prisoner Liberation Day," is a Sikh festival marking Guru Hargobind's 1619 release from Gwalior Fort with 52 prisoners, observed on the Kartik new moon alongside Diwali.
Bandi Sanjay Kumar (బండి సంజయ్ కుమార్)
Bandi Sanjay Kumar (బండి సంజయ్ కుమార్), BJP politician, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs since 2024, MP from Karimnagar, and BJP Telangana president 2020–2023.
Bandidos Motorcycle Club
Bandidos Motorcycle Club, founded March 1966 in San Leon, Texas, by Donald Chambers, is a one-percent outlaw motorcycle club and one of the world's largest OMGs, known for the fat Mexican patch, RICO convictions, and Hells Angels rivalry.
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.
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.
Bandung Sea of Fire
Bandung Sea of Fire (Indonesian: Bandung Lautan Api) was the deliberate burning of southern Bandung, West Java, by Indonesian troops and civilians on 23 and 24 March 1946.
Bandwagon effect
The bandwagon effect is the tendency to adopt a belief or behavior because others already have, so perceived popularity attracts additional followers, especially in elections and voting.
Bangalore University (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ)
Bangalore University (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ), a dual-mode state university in Bengaluru founded 1964, trifurcated in 2017; 293 colleges, 1,112-acre Jnana Bharathi campus, NAAC A++ 3.75 (2023), NIRF rank 64.
Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad
The Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad (نوابان فرخآباد) were an Afghan dynasty that ruled a state at Farrukhabad in northern India, founded by Muhammad Khan Bangash in 1714 and ceded to the British by 1802.
Bangchak
Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited is a Thai integrated energy group founded in 1984, with the country's largest refining capacity, 294,000 barrels per day, plus fuel retail and renewable power.
Banger Orthopedics (邦尔骨科医院集团股份有限公司)
Banger Orthopedics (邦尔骨科) is a Chinese private orthopedic hospital group headquartered in Hangzhou, founded in 2012, with 17 institutions and more than 5,000 beds as of 2023.
Banggood
Banggood (棒谷) is a Chinese cross-border e-commerce retailer based in Guangzhou, whose website banggood.com was registered in 2006 and claims over 66 million registered users.
Bangime language
Bangime (Bangi Me, Baŋgi me, dba) is a language isolate of central-eastern Mali, spoken by about 1,500 Bangande in seven villages near the Bandiagara Escarpment; its name means 'secret' or 'hidden', and its speakers identify as Dogon although the language is unrelated to Dogon and the Bangande are a genetic isolate.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is the independent central monetary authority of the Philippines, established in 1993 to maintain price stability and the peso's convertibility.
Bangkok Bank
Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest bank and its leading corporate bank, founded in Bangkok's Chinatown in 1944 and family-controlled by the Sophonpanich family.
Bangkok Dusit Medical Services
Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) is Thailand's largest private healthcare provider, a Bangkok-based hospital group of 60 hospitals founded in 1969 by the surgeon Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth.
Bangla TV (বাংলা টিভি)
Bangla TV (বাংলা টিভি) is a Bengali-language satellite channel launched from London in 1998-1999 as the first Bangla channel outside the subcontinent, broadcasting from Bangladesh since 19 May 2017; privately owned by Bangla TV Limited, Dhaka.
Bangladesh Air Force (বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনী)
Bangladesh Air Force (বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনী, BAF), aerial branch of Bangladesh's armed forces. Founded as Kilo Flight on 28 September 1971 at Dimapur, India, with three aircraft and 57 personnel; motto Banglar Akash Rakhib Mukto; modernizes under Forces Goal 2030.
Bangladesh Armed Forces (বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী)
Bangladesh Armed Forces (বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী): the Army, Navy, and Air Force of Bangladesh, coordinated by the Armed Forces Division under the Prime Minister's Office. About 163,050 active troops; founded in the 1971 Liberation War; leading UN peacekeeping contributor since 1988.