In a move to strengthen educational ties with India, Uzbekistan has announced a fully-funded scholarship scheme for Indian ...

Situated in east-central Uzbekistan, Samarkand can rightly be said to be one of the planet’s oldest inhabited cities – some archaeologists date it to around the 7th century BC.

Samarkand, once a bustling hub on the Silk Road, was also an epicentre of scientific discovery. In the 15th century, Ulugh Beg, a Timurid ruler and astronomer, ...