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Indo-Parthian Kingdom

Indo-parthian kingdom is also known as Gondopharid Dynasty. This dynasty ruled Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, during the 1st century AD. Parthians were some Iranian tribes and in...

January 9, 2012

Satrap System of Ancient Sakas in India

The pressure from the Parthians (Iranians) and later from Kushanas, the Shakas got divided into 5 branches with their different seats of power at different places in modern...

January 9, 2012

Sakas Rulers of Ancient India

The indo-Greek rule in India was primarily destroyed by the Sakas. Sakas were the Scythians, which refer to ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists. In Sanskrit they...

January 9, 2012

Indo-Greek Rulers of Ancient India

We should know that during the last two centuries of BC era, Northwest and northern Indian subcontinent was ruled by more than 30 Hellenistic kings. The knowledge about...

January 9, 2012

Mahameghavahans of Kalinga

After the decline of Mauryas, Kalinga rose to power around 1st century BC in the area of modern Odisha. We best know about the Third ruler of this...

January 9, 2012

Kanva dynasty

The last ruler of the Shunga Dynasty was killed by Vasudeva Kanva. The Kanvas were Brahmins and considered themselves as descendents from Rishi Kanva. Vasudeva killed Devabhuti in...

January 9, 2012

Shunga (Sunga) Dynasty

Four rulers of Shunga or Sunga Dynasty were Pushyamitra Sunga (185 BC TO 151 BC), Agnimitra (149 BC -141 BC), Bhagabhadra (114 BC -83 BC) and Devabhuti (87-73...

January 9, 2012

Hussein Tantawi: Head of Egypt’s military council

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi is the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that has ruled Egypt since a popular uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak...

January 9, 2012

Latest global HIV/AIDS figures

Some important data from a report by the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). (Source: Reuters) An estimated 34 million people worldwide had the human immunodeficiency virus HIV.L...

January 9, 2012

Japan: What are Tobashi schemes and what is Olympus scandal?

Tobashi is Japanese for “fly away”. It describes the practice where external investment firms typically sell or otherwise take loss-bearing investments off the books of one Client Company...

January 9, 2012

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