India Post has issued a set of 10 stamps and one Miniature sheet on Legendary Singers of India .Denomination of each stamp is 5 Rs. Stamps depicts singers 1.Shamshad Begum 2. Geeta Dutt 3. Hemant Kumar 4.Mukesh 5.Kishor Kumar 6. Mohammed Rafi 7.Manna Dey 8. Talat Mahmood 9.Bhupen Hazarika 10. T M Soundararajan.
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Malaysia issued its National Laureates stamp series at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS), in conjunction with the International Book Fair Kuala Lumpur 2016.This first stamp series will feature three of Malaysia’s renowned national laureates, namely Kamaluddin Muhammad (Keris Mas), Usman Awang (Tongkat Warrant) and Muhammad Abdul Biang (Arena Wati).
India Post has released a commemorative postage stamp on noted Gujrati writer Govardhanram Tripathi.Chief Minister of Gujrat Anandi Ben Patel released the stamp on 27th April 2016.Tripathi was born in Nadiad, India on 20 October 1855 on the day of the Dashera festival.In 1875, he completed his BA degree and decided to pursue an LLB […]
Date of Issue:4 February 2016 Born on March 4, 1916 into an aristocratic Saraswat family and educated in Marathi, Portuguese and English, Vasantrao entered the family business when he was quite young. After his elementary education, he went to the Lyceum where he took his baccalaureate at the age of 18. In 1932, he married […]
There’s a certain mana and prestige that comes with being part of the All Blacks – it’s an honour reserved only for New Zealand’s very best rugby players. The ultimate symbol of the All Blacks is their iconic jersey, to which we pay tribute in this official All Blacks stamp issue. The stamp will be […]
India Post is soon issuing a commemorative postage stamp on Great Emperor Ashoka. King Asoka, the third monarch of the Indian Mauryan dynasty, has come to be regarded as one of the most exemplary rulers in world history. The British historian H.G. Wells has written: “Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd […]
Six UK bee species chosen for the sheet stamps to give representation of all parts of the UK, different habitats and the different kinds of bee species that breed in the UK (two bumblebee species and four ‘solitary’ bees). The miniature sheet is devoted to the honey bee.The six individual stamps have been designed by […]
Today India has the largest Postal Network in the world with over 1, 55,015 Post Offices (as on 31.03.2009) of which 1, 39,144 (89.76%) are in the rural areas. At the time of independence, there were 23,344 Post Offices, which were primarily in urban areas. Thus, the network has registered a seven-fold growth since Independence, […]
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan has released the special postal stamp on 17th July 2015 to commemorate historic Nabakalebara Rath Yatra 2015.Odisha Tourism Minister Ashok Panda, Chief Secretary Gokul Pati and Tourism Secretary Arvind Padhee were present at the occasion.The postage stamp is dedicated to Mahaprabhu Sree Jagannath. Dharmendra Pradhan has […]
50th Anniversary of the First Spacewalks On July 2nd, 2015 Kyrgyz Express Post (KEP) is issuing the souvenir sheet “50th Anniversary of the First “Spacewalks”.In 1965 the first ever extravehicular activity was performed. The first ever heroes to perform this activity were the Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Alexey Leonov and the American astronaut Edward White. The KEP […]