Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012. He was the 10th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 15th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008. SM Krishna had served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha from December 1989 to January 1993. He was also a member of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at various times from 1971 to 2014. In 2023, Krishna was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India.
Bailhongal is a Taluk in Belagavi district of Karnataka state in southern India. Bailhongal Taluk is located towards the north-east part of Belagavi. The taluk headquarters is about 44 km from the district headquarters. The total geographical area of the taluk is 1122.40 km2. There are 126 revenue villages and 14 hamlets with a total population of 356,400 people, according to the 2001 census.
Manvi is a City in the Raichur district of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the municipal headquarters of the Manvi taluk. Manvi Police Station stood fifth in the list of top 10 best police station across the country.
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda is an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers of India in the Second Modi ministry from 14 November 2018 to 7 July 2021. He also served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation of India from 5 July 2016 to 24 May 2019 in the First Modi ministry. He is representing the Bangalore North constituency. He also held Ministry of Railways and other cabinet positions in the First Modi ministry. He also served as the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Kambadahalli Hanumappa Muniyappa is an Indian politician from Karnataka who is the current Cabinet Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in the Government of Karnataka. He was also the Minister of State for Independent charge of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of India and a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing Kolar of Karnataka from 1991 to 2019. He is a member of the Indian National Congress political party.
M. Rajasekara Murthy was an Indian politician, who was a member 7th Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from the Lok Sabha constituency of Mysore in Karnataka. He also participated in the Freedom Struggle.
Vivekananda Degree College is located in the locality of Nehru Nagar, about 3 km north-east to the center of the city of Puttur in Karnataka state, India. This college is run by Vivekananda Vidyavardhaka Sangha Puttur (VVS).
Gandhinagar formerly known as Jalihal Camp, is one of the largest villages in Karnataka state in terms of area, population, property, agricultural production and revenue. It is the first government recognized revenue village in the Tunga Bhadra Delta Region. From 17 May 1997 onward, this village was renamed Gandhi Nagar from Jalihal Camp. is located on either sides of Tunga bhadra left Bank Canal,#36. In this village, there are many fertile, high-yielding paddy fields. Paddy is the main agricultural crop in the Tunga Bhadra Delta Region and the paddy varieties grown here include: Sonamasuri, Emergency, Ganga Kaveri, Nellore Sona, JJL, RS22.
Bhaskarrao Bapurao Patil Khatgaonkar is an Indian politician from Maharashtra belonging to Indian National Congress who served as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1998. He was a member in the 12th, 13th and 15th Lok Sabha’s. He was also a member of Maharashtra State Assembly (M.L.A) three times. He was elected from the Biloli Constituency in the years 1990, 1995 and 2004.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician, who is the current president of the Indian National Congress since 2022, and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2020. He currently serving as Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha since 17 December 2022. He was also Leader of Indian National Congress, Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019 and chairperson of Public Accounts Committee (India) from 2016 to 2019. He was formerly the Minister of Railways from 2013 to 2014 and Minister of Labour and Employment from 2009 to 2013 in the Government of India. Kharge was a Member of Parliament for Gulbarga, Karnataka from 2009 to 2019. He was also general secretary of All India Congress Committee and incharge for Maharashtra from 2018 to 2020.
Abdul Samad Siddiqui was an Indian educationist and politician who was a Member of Parliament from Hyderabad - Karnataka region from 1988 till 1994. He was also one of the famous Muslim leaders from the North Karnataka region, known for his obsession with building educational institutes for the poor.
Virendra Verma was an Indian politician, born in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh (1990) as well as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh (1990–1993).
Daradahalli Byregowda Chandregowda, is a former Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, three-term MLA, one-term MLC, and Member of Parliament—three-term from Lok Sabha and one-term from Rajya sabha.
Basavaraj Ganpathrao Patil Sedam is an Indian politician who was the member of parliament in the Lok Sabha from Kalaburagi and member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. He is a Patron Of Bharat Vikas Sangam and He is brought up in the severe atmosphere of Tarnahalli, in the midst of god fearing, nature-loving agriculturists. His early education was in the Village School, which Studying for his Science graduation, he was attracted to the cultural organization Rashtriya Swamyam Sevak Sangha.
Aryamba Pattabhi is an Indian novelist and writer in Kannada language. She is the younger sister of Triveni, a popular Kannada novelist and the niece of B. M. Srikantaiah, a famous Kannada poet, writer and translator.
Indian Institute of Information Technology Raichur is a public technical and research university located in the district of Raichur in Karnataka, India. The Institute is being set up with the financial contributions of Ministry of Education, Government of India and Government of Karnataka.
Vadigenahalli Munishamappa Muniyapppa is an Indian politician who was the Minister of Sericulture department (1991), Minister of Energy (1993) and Minister of Mines & Geology (1999) in cabinet of S. Bangarappa, Veerappa Moily and S. M. Krishna respectively. Currently he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Sidlaghatta Constituency. He was contesting Member of the Legislative Assembly elections from Sidlaghatta of Chikkaballapur district since 1983 as a candidate of Indian National Congress. He is the one of the senior leaders of Indian National Congress- Karnataka and elected six times as Member of the Legislative Assembly from Sidlaghatta. As a token of honesty, sincerity, loyalty towards party he was selected as a candidate to contest Member of Legislative Assembly nine times and one time for Member of Parliament (1996).
Vella Eacharan was an Indian politician from Kerala and a member of the Indian National Congress.He was elected to 1st Lok Sabha in 1952 and 2nd Lok Sabha in 1957. Eacharan was the Minister for Devaswom, Harijan welfare, Community Development, Colonization & Settlement (1971-1977). He was elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly from Thrithala in 1970 and Wandoor in 1977.
Madagiri is also spelled as Madigiri or Madagera is a large village in the southern state of Karnataka, Madagiri is located in the Sirwar taluk of Raichur district in Karnataka.Madagiri famous for the largest cotton growing village in the Raichur district.
Kolur Basavanagoud was an Indian politician, educationist, and industrialist who served as a member of the Indian Parliament in the 13th Lok Sabha from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.