Viral videos of road rage in Dehradun featuring two families slugging it out over a minor accident has shocked Uttarakhand.
Rajiv Gandhi, his son Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Karan Singh, Naveen Patnaik besides celebrated authors like Amitav Ghosh and Vikram Seth studied at The Doon School.
Thapar had strong reservations about Project Cheetah, India's initiative to reintroduce African cheetahs into the wild. He argued that India does not have the necessary habitat or prey base to support free-ranging cheetahs and that the authorities lacked experience in managing spotted felines in the wild.
Run by a former cricketer and son of India's military heroes, Mike's Forest Retreat is an ode to all that we hold dear.
Jitin Prasada was once considered as among Rahul Gandhi's 'young Turks' and was a minister in successive Manmohan Singh governments but defected from the Congress to the BJP in 2021, where he has again established himself as a prominent Brahmin face of Uttar Pradesh.
Between December 7 and 19, 2014, register for a residential academic course at The Doon School, Dehradun taught by experienced tutors from King's College London.
'I was exhausted, hungry, unshaven and despondent.' 'My mouth was full of sores due to dehydration.' 'My clothes were in tatters due to walking through bushes and sliding down thorny slopes,' Brigadier John Parshuram Dalvi wrote of his capture during the 1962 War.
He said so far only 3 million people have been covered in the country since the project was launched by the Centre.
At this time, sixty years ago, Brigadier John Parshuram Dalvi and a majority of his men were captured as prisoners of war by the Chinese during the 1962 war. His son Michael Dalvi, 77, has preserved his father's memory and the story of the gallant men of the 7th Infantry Brigade with honour.
'Never lose your optimism. Never lose your aspiration and never -- even if India becomes a prosperous consumer society -- never ever lose that shining light in your eyes,' advises Dr Peter McLaughlin, headmaster of the Doon School.
The second seeded Irishman beat Mohammad Salifu of Ghana in a keen final.
Top seed Rohan Bopanna was knocked out of the ONGC-ITF Masters tennis tournament losing both his singles as well as doubles matches.
Congress leader Jitin Prasada joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday, in a boost to the saffron party as it works to strengthen its social coalition ahead of assembly elections in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh early next year.
The seventh and eighth seeds were beaten by Manoj Mahadevan and Vinod Sridhar respectively in the ITF Futures tournament.
This was the first Futures title on Indian soil for the third seeded Pakistani.
The Indian challenge in the men's singles ended with the ouster of Punna Vishal.
Vishal became the only Indian to enter the semifinals of the ONGC ITF Futures men's tennis tournament in Dehradun.
Top seed Mankad lost to Uzbekistan's Dmitry Mazur while 18-year old Liberhan shocked fifth seed Matwe Middelkoop of The Netherlands in the ITF Futures tournament.
The unseeded Indian Davis Cupper beat the sixth seed in straight sets in the ITF tournament.
Celebs pay tribute to Girish Karnad.
Eminent journalist B G Verghese, a Ramon Magsaysay award winner and former editor of leading dailies Hindustan Times and Indian Express, died on Tuesday at the age of 87 after brief illness.
The 72-year-old master strategist ensured that the Congress's internal conflict ended and took on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shivraj Singh Chouhan -- the state's longest ever serving chief minister.
'The magic lies in you and the effort that you will put in.' You have to work hard and smart, says Gaurav Sood.
Ashok Gehlot can never be a challenger to the first son of the Congress party. The Scindias and Pilots will be Rahul's rivals should the party's fortunes revive, says Dr Sudhir Bisht.
It is important to understand the resources that each boarding school offers.
'What the Congress needs now is an ideological and social contrast to the BJP.' 'The Congress stable of princelings cannot do it,' argues Mohan Guruswamy.
Kamal Nath argued that Modi had 'overexposed himself': By constantly pushing his own image on social media and on TV, attaching his name to multiple promises, Modi had become the face rivals could easily blame for India's chronic dysfunction.
'The Modi administration has access to so much evidence that it can rip apart the Congress, not just the Nehru-Gandhis, but almost the entire leadership structure of the party,' says T V R Shenoy.
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