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 […]
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India Post has released a Special Cover on 60 years of Capital High School Bhubaneswar.The Special Cover was released on 28th April 2012.
India Post has today issued a Stamp on S Ramanujan .Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. Ramanujan’s own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic. His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer […]
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 […]
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 […]
India Post today released a commemorative stamp on Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney.Aney (29 August, 1880- 26 January, 1968)was a politician. He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak. In 1937, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. During 1941-1943, he was a member of Governor […]
India Post today released a commemorative stamp on Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney.Aney (29 August, 1880- 26 January, 1968)was a politician. He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak. In 1937, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. During 1941-1943, he was a member of Governor […]
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link will soon get a stamp of recognition, with the postal department planning to issue a stamp dedicated to the structure.”The proposal will be placed before the Philatelic Advisory Committee’s meeting by June-end,” Manju Kumar, director (philately) of the communication and IT ministry wrote to Siddharth Bothra, vice-president of All India Philatelist’s Association.Bothra, elated […]
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 […]