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Agni Sakshi (अग्नि साक्षी) (1996 film)

Agni Sakshi (अग्नि साक्षी) is a 1996 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Partho Ghosh, starring Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, and Manisha Koirala. A remake of Sleeping with the Enemy, it was a box office blockbuster, grossing ₹31.39 crore.

Agni-V

Agni-V, also known as Agni 5, is an Indian nuclear-capable, three-stage ballistic missile developed by DRDO, with a range of more than 5,000 km, first tested in 2012.

Agni-VI (अग्नि-VI)

Agni-VI (अग्नि-VI) is a planned Indian intercontinental ballistic missile developed by DRDO as the successor to Agni-V, with a reported range of 8,000 to 12,000 kilometers.

Agnico Eagle

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited is a Canadian gold mining company headquartered in Toronto with mines in Canada, Australia, Finland, and Mexico, producing 3.4 million ounces of gold in 2025.

Agnieszka Chacinska

Agnieszka Chacińska is a Polish molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial protein import, known for defining the redox-driven MIA pathway and directing IMol PAS in Warsaw since 2020.

Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk

Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk (born 1984 in Wrocław) is a Polish New Left politician, a Sejm member since 2019, and Minister of Family, Labour, and Social Policy since 2023.

Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland (born 1948, Warsaw) is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter, FAMU Prague graduate, three-time Oscar nominee (Angry Harvest, Europa Europa, In Darkness), Wire and Treme director, European Film Academy president, and maker of Green Border (2023).

Agnieszka Radwańska

Agnieszka Radwanska (Agnieszka Radwańska), Polish tennis player, world No. 2 in 2012, 2012 Wimbledon finalist, 2015 WTA Finals champion, 20 WTA singles titles, retired November 2018.

Agnimitra

Agnimitra (अग्निमित्र) was a king of the Shunga dynasty of northern India, son of its founder Pushyamitra, who conquered Vidarbha and appears in Kalidasa's drama Malavikagnimitram.

Agnimukha curna

Agnimukha curna (Agnimukha Churna) is an Ayurvedic polyherbal powder from Yogaratnakara, eight ingredients including asafoetida and ajowan, dosed 3-6 g for dyspepsia, constipation, and hemorrhoids; distinct from Bṛhad agnimukha cūrṇa and from the drug name agnimukha for Semecarpus anacardium.

Agnipath Scheme

Agnipath Scheme (Agniveer scheme), India's 2022 armed forces recruitment reform: four-year service, 25% retention in regular cadre, Rs 11.7 lakh Seva Nidhi, no pension for 75% of exits.

Agnipurana

The Agnipurana (अग्निपुराण, Agni Purana) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a Sanskrit encyclopedic text of over 10,000 verses covering mythology, poetics, ritual, and statecraft.

Agnis Cavars

Agnis Čavars (born 1986, Latvia), Latvian 3x3 basketball captain who won the first Olympic 3x3 gold at Tokyo 2020, was Latvia's opening-ceremony flagbearer, and now coaches in Hong Kong.

Agnisakshi (ಅಗ್ನಿಸಾಕ್ಷಿ) (TV series)

Agnisakshi (ಅಗ್ನಿಸಾಕ್ಷಿ) is a Kannada-language television drama serial that aired on Colors Kannada from 2013 to 2020, topping BARC ratings for two and a half years.

AGNITUNDIVATI

Agnitundi Vati (Agnitundivati, Agnitunda rasa) is a classical herbo-mineral Ayurvedic pill from Bhaisajyaratnavali, AFI Part I 12:1, containing purified mercury, sulphur, aconite, and salts, prescribed for Agnimandya (weak digestion).

Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) was a Florentine Mannerist painter and poet, court painter to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and the leading portraitist of mid-16th-century Florence.

Agnolotti

Agnolotti: Piedmontese stuffed pasta filled with cooked roast meat, related to ravioli; known especially as agnolotti del plin, tiny parcels sealed by finger pinch, served with roast juices, sage butter, broth, or on a napkin.

Agnosia

Agnosia is the inability to recognize stimuli despite intact sensation, coined by Freud in 1891; divided by Lissauer into apperceptive and associative forms, caused by stroke, injury, tumors, or dementia.

Agnostic atheism

Agnostic atheism combines atheism (not believing in God) with agnosticism (not claiming to know God's existence). Rooted in Huxley's 1869 coinage, it is formalized in the belief/knowledge two-axis grid, common in online atheism and contested in academic philosophy.

Agnostic Front

Agnostic Front is a New York hardcore punk and crossover thrash band formed around 1980, known for early records United Blood and Victim in Pain.

Agnostic theism

Agnostic theism: believing God exists while holding that this belief does not amount to knowledge. Combines theism (belief) with Huxley's 1869 agnosticism (unknowability); related to fideism and compatible with the epistemological sense of agnosticism.

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view that God's existence is unknown or unknowable, coined by T.H. Huxley in the 1860s. Distinct from atheism in philosophy, it spans strong and weak forms and the evidential argument for suspending judgment.

Agnyaathavaasi (అజ్ఞాతవాసి)

Agnyaathavaasi (అజ్ఞాతవాసి) is a 2018 Telugu action-romance film by Trivikram Srinivas starring Pawan Kalyan, loosely based on Largo Winch; a box-office failure. Not the 2025 Kannada Agnyathavasi murder mystery.

Agnyathavasi (2025 film)

Agnyathavasi (ಅಜ್ಞಾತವಾಸಿ), 2025 Kannada crime drama directed by Janardhan Chikkanna, written by Krishna Raj, produced by Hemanth M Rao's Dakshayani Talkies; released April 11, 2025, on ZEE5 May 28, 2025; stars Rangayana Raghu as a Malenadu village inspector.

AGO1

AGO1 (EIF2C1, HGNC:3262) is a human chromosome 1p34.3 gene encoding a non-catalytic Argonaute of RISC that silences miRNA targets by translational repression and deadenylation, one of four tandem-clustered AGO paralogs.

AGO2

AGO2, also called EIF2C2, is a human Argonaute protein that serves as the catalytic engine of RISC, the only human paralog able to slice target RNA.

Agobard

Agobard (c. 769 or 779 – 840) was archbishop of Lyon from 816 to 840, a Carolingian polemicist known for treatises against weather magic, Adoptionism, trial by combat, and the Jews of Lyon.

Agoda

Agoda, also known as Agoda.com, is a Singapore-headquartered online travel agency for booking hotels, holiday homes, flights, and activities. Launched in 2005 and owned by Booking Holdings, it focuses primarily on Asia-Pacific travelers.

Agoes Projosasmito

Agoes Projosasmito, also spelled Agus Projosasmito, is an Indonesian businessman who controls Amman Mineral, the largest mining company on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, operator of the Batu Hijau copper and gold mine.

Agoge (γωγή)

Agoge (ἀγωγή), the Spartan public upbringing of boys aged 7 to 29 in age bands, oriented to citizenship and war; term unattested in Classical sources, reinvented under Cleomenes III and Rome.