Inheriting a large empire, he continued the policy of his father, Samudra Gupta, by extending control over neighbouring territories.
He helped build the Reddit online community and had been an instrumental voice in defeating legislative efforts aimed at extending control over the internet.
It will also give him extended control over dissemination of local news in New York, where he would own both Channel 5 and Channel 9 as well as The New York Post.
To the Chinese empire he added areas north of the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) and portions of Outer Mongolia, and he extended control over Tibet.
Over the past eight years, in the name of reviving Russia after the tumult of the 1990s, Mr. Putin has waged an unforgiving campaign to clamp down on democracy and extend control over the government and large swaths of the economy.
By extending control over its supply train, De Beers intends to be better able to convince consumers that a diamond sold under the De Beers name is worth more than other diamonds.
The statement came after a week of public tension between the president and Mr. Khamenei over what was seen as an effort by Mr. Ahmadinejad to extend control over the politically sensitive Intelligence Ministry.
Mr. Morsi has tried to extend control over the police and removed the interior minister, who presided over last month's debacle and was a Mubarak enforcer who had run the Cairo district during the brutal crackdown two years ago.
He cannot even extend control over his own militias," commented one council member.The working assumption in Israel is that once a deal is clinched with Mr Arafat, he will use "his own methods" to impose it on his people.
Starting in the 9th century, the area was inhabited by the tribe of Polanie, which gradually extended control over other Slavic tribes living in the Oder and Vistula river valleys.
