Waseem Badami

Waseem Badami is a Pakistani journalist and TV Anchor Person working for ARY News. He currently hosts the popular talk show, "11th Hour".

Early life and career

Badami began his journalistic career with ARY Digital in 2006 and later went on to anchor on his show, 11th Hour with Waseem Badami.

On 4 October 2014, Waseem Badami joined News as Executive Vice President and Senior Anchorperson. He later resigned from BOL Network in April 2015.

Television

Films

References

Badami

Badami formerly known as Vatapi, is a town and headquarters of a taluk by the same name, in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD. It is famous for its rock cut structural temples. It is located in a ravine at the foot of a rugged, red sandstone outcrop that surrounds Agastya lake. Badami has been selected as one of the heritage cities for HRIDAY - Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana scheme of Government of India.

History

Pre-historic

Badami is surrounded by many pre-historic places, Hiregudda,Sidlaphadi and Kutkankeri (Junjunpadi, Shigipadi and Anipadi), there we can see the rock shelters megalithic burial sites and paintings.

Badami Chalukyas and other dynasties

The Puranic story says the wicked asura Vatapi was killed by sage Agastya (as per Agastya-Vatapi story), the area in which the incident happened so named as Vatapi. At Aihole there was a merchant guild known as Ayyavole Ainuravaru lived in the area have reformed. As per scholar Dr. D. P. Dikshit, the first Chalukya king was Jayasimha (a feudatory lord in the Kadamba dynasty), who in 500 AD established the Chalukya kingdom. His grandson Pulakeshin Ibuilt a fort at Vatapi.