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Uzbekistan: The great Silk Route country -2
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Uzbekistan: The great Silk Route country -2

November 12, 2018

By Ashvini Ranjan [Continued from yesterday] As we departed on our tour of the city, Akbar reeled off the city’s history of how it changed hands from the Arabs to the Mongols and subsequently ruled by Timur and Shaybandis. It was colonised by Russia in 1917 and Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991. “It was Islam…

Uzbekistan: The great Silk Route country -1
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Uzbekistan: The great Silk Route country -1

November 11, 2018

By Ashvini Ranjan The air hostess on the Uzbek Airways flight from Tashkent to New Delhi was kind enough to permit me to occupy an empty window seat. For her, it was a routine request from passengers. Little did she realise my burning curiosity to see the rugged landscape below of the famous Silk Road…

Uzbekistan ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament: City’s Dhruthi enters second round
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Uzbekistan ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament: City’s Dhruthi enters second round

June 7, 2017

Mysuru-based Dhruthi T. Venugopal taking part in the $25,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament being held in Uzbekistan, won her first round women’s singles tie against Kazakhstan’s qualifier Ksenia Palkina 6-1, 6-2 yesterday. Partnering Kyra Shroff, Dhruthi scored a good win over V. Shleya and T. Shakhsiya               6-2, 6-1 and entered the quarter-finals in the women’s…

ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament: Dhruthi enters main draw
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ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament: Dhruthi enters main draw

May 30, 2017

City’s Dhruthi T. Venugopal taking part in the $25,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Andijan, Uzbekistan entered the main draw in the women’s singles event by winning her final qualifying match yesterday. In the final qualifying match, Dhruthi beat Uzbekistan’s Lavlo Bakhodovova 6-2, 6-4 to qualify for the singles main draw. In the first round,…

ASBC Asian Boxing Championship 2017: India emerge joint third
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ASBC Asian Boxing Championship 2017: India emerge joint third

May 9, 2017

The Indian men’s boxing team ended the Asian Boxing Championship as joint third with Mongolia by winning a total of four medals including two silver and two bronze medals at the championship which concluded at Uzbekistan on Sunday (May 7). Shiva Thapa (60 kg) and Sumit Sangwan (91 kg) won the silver medals, while Amit…

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