Bangalore also known as Bengaluru (Kannada: Name) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city[6] and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration. As of 2009, Bangalore was inducted in the list of Global cities and ranked as a "Beta World City" alongside cities such as Geneva, Copenhagen, Boston, Cairo, Riyadh, Berlin, in the studies performed by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network in 2008.

The growth of IT has presented the city with unique challenges. Ideological clashes sometimes occur between the city's IT moguls, who demand an improvement in the city's infrastructure, and the state government, whose electoral base is primarily the people in rural Karnataka. The encouragement of high-tech industry in Bangalore, for example, has not favoured local employment development, but has, instead, increased land values and forced out small enterprise. Bangalore is a hub for biotechnology related industry in India and in the year 2005, around 47% of the 265 biotechnology companies in India were located here; including Biocon, India's largest biotechnology company.

Infosys, Wipro, iGate, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and US based companies like Google, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft and Intel have their offices in Bangalore. .

Bangalore is served by the newly built Bengaluru International Airport. A rapid transit system called the Namma Metro is being built, and as of January 2011 was expected to be partly operational by April 2011
Places of Interest
Cubbon Park
Lal Bagh
Bannerghatta National Park
The Innovative Film City (IFC)
ISKON
Vidhana Soudha
High Court
Museum