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The Additional Director General of Law and Order and Special Enforcement Bureau Commissioner Ravi Sankar Ayyannar and Visakha Range DIG Harikrishna would attend the destruction of the ganja. It is the biggest operation ganja destruction in the country for the second time by the AP Police in eight months. It is recalled that undivided Visakhapatnam district police burnt two lakh kgs of ganja worth Rs. 200 crore on February 12 of this year. Our special forces destroyed 600 acres of ganja crop in five days,” the DGP Rajendra Nath Reddy said.

In 1935, Joseph Stalin renamed the city Kirovabad after Sergei Kirov. In 1991, Azerbaijan re-established its independence, and the ancient name of the city was given back. For many years the 104th Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Airborne Troops was based in the town. With their military superiority, the Russians were victorious in the Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813. By the Treaty of Gulistan that followed, Iran was forced to cede the Ganja Khanate to Russia. The Iranians briefly managed to oust the Russians from Ganja during the 1826 offensive during the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828, but the resulting Treaty of Turkmenchay made its inclusion into the Russian Empire permanent.

When you hear the term ‘ganja’, the first thing that comes to mind might be Rastafarianism. Rastafarianism is a religion that began in Jamaica in the 1930s, combining Protestant Christianity with mysticism and a pan-African political consciousness. Interestingly, however, the word ‘ganja’ does not originate in the Caribbean. Rather, ‘ganja’ is of Sanskrit origin, an Old Indo-Aryan language from the Indian subcontinent.

He built a new city 8 kilometres to the southwest of the old one, but the name changed back to ganja during the time. During the Safavid rule, it was the capital of the Karabakh province. In 1747, Ganja became the center of the Ganja Khanate for a few decades following the death of Nader Shah, until the advent of the Iranian Zand and Qajar dynasties.

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