By Kevin Morgan Sir Edmund Hillary, Mountaineer, Explorer, Statesman, Philanthropist died on 11th January 2008 aged 88. This New Zealand mint pair of stamps was issued in 2003 for the 50th anniversary of the Conquest of Everest. Beginnings Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland, on 20 July 1919, to a district landowner. His father had […]
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New Delhi, May 3 : At 60th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday released postal stamps commemorating 50 iconic film personalities who brought changes in the Indian cinema.Minister of Communication and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that as the country celebrates the 100 years of Indian cinema, it is vital to […]
Pakistan Post has issued a commemorative postage stampon 2nd March 2013 to pay tribute to renowned Urdu poet Nasir Kazmi (man of letters).Nasir Kazmi was born on December 8, 1925 at Ambala in British India. He was educated at Ambala and Lahore. After the creation of Pakistan, he came to Lahore,He did some journalistic work […]
New Delhi, May 3 : At 60th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday released postal stamps commemorating 50 iconic film personalities who brought changes in the Indian cinema.Minister of Communication and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that as the country celebrates the 100 years of Indian cinema, it is vital to […]
India Post will Issue a commemorative stamp on Kavi Pradeep today.Kavi Pradeep (1915–1998), born Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi, was a renowned poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song,Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo, written as tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country, during the Sino-Indian War . His first recognition came for his patriotic […]
Produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Frozen Planet is the most ambitious series on the Polar Regions ever undertaken.For four years, camera teams braved temperatures down to -50 degrees C, 200 mile per hour katabatic winds, midnight sun and long dark polar nights to capture the essence of these remote and highly seasonal ends […]
Very senior philatelist D.Mahapatra was present in the meeting of PD account holders with India Post officials held in New Delhi last week.Mr Mahapatra sent this letter to Mr Adnan Ahmed, Director Postal Services (India Post), Delhi Circle.In this letter very important issues have been raised by Mr. Mahaptra which needs a healthy debate.It looks that […]
First Meghdoot Postcard The first MEGHDOOT Post Card of India issued as on 02.09.2002 on a film advertisement with a photo of Tamil cinema star Rajnikant .Features of the postcard were unique . Meghdoot Postcard is priced cheaper than normal postcard at 25 paisa instead of normal postcard’s price is 50 paisa.,.50 % space […]
By Tshering Tashi, Photo: Nicholas Rhodes (courtesy-kuensel online.com) The Bhutan Post Office was set up in 1962, but Bhutanese were sending letters and using stamps much before that. According to English scholar Nicholas Rhodes, who has a collection of old Bhutanese stamps (see photo), “the early stamps were used in the mid 1950s and the […]
The postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone simultaneously issue a set of three commemorative postal sheets on 1st March 2011 in memory of 12 men and women who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa. In the struggle against South African Apartheid, according to one of the commemorative sheets, it was estimated that Jews […]