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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern India north-northeast of Delhi. The provisional capital of Uttarakhand, it is a trade center and has a forestry college.
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- proper noun The
state capital ofUttaranchal (India ).
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Dehra Dun police had claimed that they had to fire on the MBA graduate as he snatched the revolver of an Inspector of the police and started firing on the police force.
CBI Files FIR Against Several Police Officers of Uttarakhand 2009
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According to Rabindra Pal Singh, the father of the diseased, Ranbir Did his MBA from Ford Institute of Meerat and was going to join Kotak Mahindra in Dehra Dun a trainee manager.
CBI Files FIR Against Several Police Officers of Uttarakhand 2009
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The best is grown around Dehra Dun, and aged for three years.
The Meat Industry’s Real Malady - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Joshimath, where there are hotels, is about 170 km north of the railhead at Rishikesh, and 220 km from Jolly Grant airport at Dehra Dun.
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India, its traditions have been revived in 1989 at Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, at the Jangchubling
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Ms. CROSSETTE: I-- I start at Delhi, and you drive up to Dehra Dun.
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Various stocks from Dehra Dun (Himalayas) and Kerala, Karnataka and Goa (western Ghats) are being cultivated for reserpine and related alkaloids at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
3. India 1997
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One of the rice varieties we conserve and grow is basmati, the aromatic rice for which Dehra Dun is famous.
Monocultures, Monopolies, Myths And The Masculinisation Of Agriculture 1997
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A manual on the management of plantation forests. 127 pp. Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun, India.
Chapter 14 1993
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The Second Brigade was directed to support, the Dehra Dun
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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