The ancient system of Mahajanapads and the Panchayati system were replaced by Jagirs granted to people who were loyal to them. The janapads, towns and areas were renamed after the names of the rulers. Suffering from heightened superiority complex about their looks, valour and their new religion, the invaders who were basically nomadic tribes of Central Asia were contemptuous of the local gentry assuming them as enemies and treated the Indians as nothing more than slaves
The National Garlic Day helps professionals and common people alike to dig through the history of this amazing spice and learn how it came to be one of the tastiest ingredients of our food.
The Indian immigrant success story is well documented, particularly in the US. What connects Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Arvind Krishna of IBM, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Rakesh Kapoor of Reckitt, Indira Nooyi of Pepsi, Leena Nair of Chanel and Raj Subramaniam of Fedex, amongst many other successful Indians, is the fact that their basic education, high school and undergraduate degree, was done in India.
NSA Doval underlined the need to prioritise combating terror financing and said that terrorism survived because of financing.
The focus of the international agenda shifts to Central Asia as Kazakhstan will be hosting the 6th Conference on Confidence Building Measures and Interaction in Asia (CICA) summit in October 2022.
For India, the Chabahar Port is a much-needed project for sea access to landlocked Afghanistan. The port has also emerged as a commercial transit hub for the region.
Economists in Afghanistan say the rail link between Central Asia and South Asia via Afghanistan would benefit the country.
Modi was talking to the foreign ministers of Central Asia nations--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- when they called on here.
Experts reckon that even though the Taliban is currently projecting to the world that it will not allow terrorists to operate from the Afghanistan soil, it won't be too long for these radical groups to launch operations in Central Asian countries after receiving direct orders from Kabul.
US media reports have claimed Washington is in talks with Central Asian governments about basing troops in the region.
