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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicDoon school

Topic: Doon school

Amid rising India-Pakistan tensions, Dehradun’s Doon & Welham schools allow students to return home

While the schools will continue to function, concerned parents are allowed to take their children home. The decision was taken after multiple requests from the students’ kin.

Why Doon School’s all-male ex-students are not on board with administration’s co-ed pitch

The school administration’s proposal, citing concerns over toxic masculinity & evolving societal norms, is under consideration, but ex-students worry it will shift the ‘cultural environment’.

Doon to Mayo College and Sanawar—legacy boarding schools losing hold over new Indian elite

The explosion of conveniently located international schools is pushing the old boarding schools to adapt, such as by offering the Cambridge curriculum.

In a first, 3 Doon alumni are CMs, all from the same powerful era

Doon School students continue to dominate India’s politics as Kamal Nath joins contemporaries Naveen Patnaik and Captain Amarinder Singh as chief ministers.

Kamal Nath, Doon alum & Sanjay Gandhi’s friend, faces his biggest test as MP CM

Kamal Nath, a nine-time Parliamentarian, has spent a considerable amount of time in Delhi and has little pan-state appeal in Madhya Pradesh.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.