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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
By Anil Kr Pujara and Dr.Pradeep Jain Mega philatelic event i.e.INDIPEX-2011 had a sensational item for sale. It was release of GANDHI KHADI stamp. For the first time, India Post used Khadi cloth i.e. other than paper for printing the stamp. Though use of other material and not paper is quite common in other countries […]
India Post today released a commemorative stamp on Corps of Signals. The Corps of Signals was raised on 15 Feb 1911 and will be celebrating its centenary on 15 Feb 2011. The journey of hundred years has been a saga of rich heritage, technological excellence, modernisation, brotherhood and pure soldiering.Signals are essentially the NERVES of the […]
Chaudhary Ranbir Singh (26 November 1914-1 Febrauary 2009) a freedom fighter was born on November 26, 1914. He had been the president of Freedom fighters association of india. He has served the nation a lot during the freedom struggle. He was elected twice to the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. He also remained a […]
India Post today released a stamp and miniature sheet on Krishanadeyaraya.Krishnadevaraya who ruler the kingdom of Vijayanagara in between 1509-1529 was one of the greatest statesmen which medieval South India had produced. Called variously as ‘Kannadaraya’, ‘Sri Karnata Mahisa’ and ‘Kannada Rajya Ramaramana’, his rule saw all round prosperity of South India, culturally and materialistically. […]