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 […]
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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 […]
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Canada: New Stamps on Zodiac Signs
Canada Post will issue the final four stamps in the 12-part Signs of the Zodiac series, which began with Aries in spring 2011.As with the stamps issued in 2011 and 2012, this issue was also designed by Paprika Design of Montréal. The stamps, each printed in the vivid colours traditionally associated with their respective sky sign, feature […]
Lithuanian issued two stamps on 26th mAY 2012under The World Heritage Objects series The stamps feature the Curonian Spit.One of the new stamps depicts the dunes of the Curonian Spit, and the second one features an ethnographic fisherman’s homestead in Kopgalys. Each stamp will be issued in the edition of 100 000 copies with the […]
By Abishek Jalan An Interesting collection on Airmail was recently found in possession of Mr. M. Gulrez.He is a prominent stamp collector residing in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and received Graduate degree in Science from Allahabad University. He works as Publicity Director in Film Industry. The collection shows creativity to its use and gives a whole […]
The two words that embody this idea are astounding: Word and Image. For the societies that have inherited age-old Mediterranean cultures, the concept of Sacred Text comprises the actual idea of Religion, Theology and Piety. We talk of ”Religions of the Book” as if the book was the essence of those movements. And, in reality, […]
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 […]
Greenland Post has issued stamp sets on mining and Christmas.A Booklet on Christmas and annual year pack has also released on 17th Oct 2011. Greenlandic Mining II The two stamp designs have been created by Ina Rosing who, yet again, has been able to combine the historic and the modern in her artwork. Christmas Stamps 2011 This year’s […]
German Post has issued a stamp commemorating the Biertan Church, one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.In 1993 the church of Bertan castle has entered in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is still an attraction for tourists from all over the world.Biertan is a rural community in the Transylvanian county of Sibiu. The […]
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 […]