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14 unusual facts about Dehradun


AIESEC Chandigarh

AIESEC Chandigarh has expansions is nearby cities of Patiala and Dehradun.

Arthur Foot

He then went out to India to take up the position of first headmaster at The Doon School, Dehradun, where he remained until 1948.

Automotive Industry Standards

The test agencies are – Automotive Research Association of India, Pune (ARAI), Vehicle Research & Development Establishment, Ahmednagar, Central Farm Machinery Testing and Training Institute, Budhni, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Central Institute of Road Transport, Pune and International Centre for Automotive Technology, Manesar.

Chamoli district

In the beginning British ruler kept this area under Dehradun and Saharanpur.

Clement Hindley

He also served as India's first Chief Commissioner of Railways bringing about the nationalisation of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular railways, the reorganisation of the Railway Department and establishing the Railway Staff College at Dehradun.

DeLand Municipal Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, DeLand Municipal Airport is assigned DED by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned DED to Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, India).

General Khodaidad

Khodaidad graduated from the NDA successfully and afterwards joined the Indian Military Academy (IMA), located in Dehradun, where he studied until 1977.

Girija Joshi

She had learnt acting course in Saint Joseph Academy, Dehradun

Governor General's Bodyguard

In 1893, William Riddell Birdwood (later World War I General and 1st Baron Birdwood) became the Master Adjutant of the regiment, seeing service in a number of North-West Frontier expeditions, with his home (regimental) base in Dehradun.

Harry George Champion

He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conservator in the United Provinces.

Pauri Garhwal district

The nearest airport is Jollygrant, Dehradun, about 155 km from Pauri and about 120 km from Kotdwara.

PN Saxena

He then shifted to Dehradun at an early age of 6–7 years to take admission in the first standard as his father was posted already in Dehradun as ‘Accountant’ in the Department of Irrigation.

He topped with first position both in matriculation from AP Mission School and Intermediate from DAV College of Dehradun.

Uttaranchal University

Uttaranchal University is a private university located at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India.


Amar Singh Thapa

He also engaged in defending the western fronts of Nahan, Chamba, Almora, Kangra, Saharanpur, Dehradun against his British counterpart, General David Ochterlony.

Ambika Soni

Ambika studied at Welham Girls School,Dehradun and did her M.A. (Hons.) from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, followed by Diploma Superiore en Langue Francaise from Alliance Francaise, Bangkok and Post-Graduate Diploma in Spanish Art and Literature from University of Havana, Cuba.

Amethi

It has many direct trains connecting with major cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Haridwar, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Puri, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu and many more.

Anuraadha Tewari

ISC, Welham Girls' School, Dehradun National Topper, ISC Commerce B Com (Hons)Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi President, Students Union MA Mass Communication MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Topper, the Class of '95

Gadarpur

Gadarpur is well connected with big cities like Haridwar, Dehradun, Rudrapur, Delhi, Moradabad etc.It is located on national highway NH-74.

Garhwal Kingdom

During his reign, Sikh Guru and the ex-communicated eldest son of Har Rai, Ram Rai settled here, upon recommendations of Aurangzeb, which eventually led to the establishment of modern town of Dehradun.

Geological Survey of India

Saketi Fossil Park is 5 km from Kala Amb, (its 85 km from Chandigarh, 65 km from Ambala, 22 km from Nahan, 110 km from Dehradun)

Hindustan Dainik

They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).

Hindustan Magazine

Hindustan Bol Raha hai is the title of the first national magazine published from "Dev Bhoomi" Uttarakhand's capital Dehradun.

ITC Enschede

ITC has several joint educational programmes with partner institutes in the developing world, for example joint MSc programmes in geo-hazards with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing in Dehradun, India and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Jagaddipendra Narayan

He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and also at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun.

R. L. Holdsworth

After leaving Harrow in 1933, he took over as principal of Islamia College in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which position he served for seven years until 1940, when he joined The Doon School in Dehradun.

Roop Durgapal

An Engineering graduate, she completed her studies from Graphic Era University,Dehradun.

Sarabjit Singh Dhillon

An alumnus of the prestigious rashtriya Indian military college,dehradun the National Defence Academy, Lt Gen Dhillon was commissioned to the Grenadiers regiment in 1968.

Sitarganj

The nearest major rail head is Lalkuan railway station, about 15 km west of the site, and is on the main line connecting Kathgodam with New Delhi, Howrah, Dehradun and Lucknow.

Software Technology Parks of India

STPI has a presence in many of the major cities of India including the cities of Bangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Pune, Guwahati, Noida, Mumbai,Nagpur, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Dehradun, Patna, Rourkela, Ranchi, Gandhinagar, Imphal, Shillong, Nashik etc.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Her daughter Nayantara Sahgal, who later settled in her mother's house in Dehradun, is a well-known novelist.