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Date of release : 2 September 2015
Thứ Tư, 2 tháng 9, 2015
Chủ Nhật, 23 tháng 8, 2015
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Commemorative Stamp on Priyadarshi Samrat Ashok
The release of the commemorative stamp on Samrat Ashoka was scheduled on 2nd August 2015, but owing to the National mourning followed by the sad demise of former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, it was postponed. This stamp will now be released today on 24th August 2015 in a function to be held at Vidyapati Bhavan Patna.
- Pradeep Kumar Malik – Patna
Ashoka Maurya ( 304–232 BCE), commonly known as Ashoka and Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in the west to Bengal in the East and covered the entire Indian subcontinent except parts of present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The empire's capital was Pataliputra (in Magadha, present-day Bihar), with provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain.
In about 260 BCE Ashoka waged a bitterly destructive war against the state of Kalinga (modern Odisha). He conquered Kalinga, which none of his ancestors had done. He embraced Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest. "Ashoka reflected on the war in Kalinga, which reportedly had resulted in more than 100,000 deaths and 150,000 deportations." Ashoka converted gradually to Buddhism beginning about 263 BCE. He was later dedicated to the propagation of Buddhism across Asia, and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha. "Ashoka regarded Buddhism as a doctrine that could serve as a cultural foundation for political unity."Ashoka is now remembered as a philanthropic administrator. In the Kalinga edicts, he addresses his people as his "children", and mentions that as a father he desires their good.
Ashoka's name "Aśoka" means "painless, without sorrow" in Sanskrit (the a privativum and śoka "pain, distress"). In his edicts, he is referred to as Devānāmpriya (Pali Devānaṃpiya or "The Beloved of the Gods"), and Priyadarśin (Pali Piyadasī or "He who regards everyone with affection"). His fondness for his name's connection to the Saraca asoca tree, or the "Ashoka tree" is also referenced in the Ashokavadana.
H.G. Wells wrote of Ashoka in his book The Outline of History: "Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history, their majesties and graciousnesses and serenities and royal highnesses and the like, the name of Ashoka shines, and shines, almost alone, a star." Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the 2nd-century Ashokavadana ("Narrative of Ashoka", a part of Divyavadana), and in the Sri Lankan text Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle"). The emblem of the modern Republic of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka.
Chủ Nhật, 21 tháng 6, 2015
11:26:00
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21 June – International Day of Yoga
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi released a commemorative stamp and a miniature sheet in denomination of Rs. 5 each on International Day of Yoga during inaugural function of the International Conference on Yoga for Holistic Health held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 21st June, 2015. The Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) and Health & Family Welfare, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Jayant Sinha, Baba Ramdev and other dignitaries were present at the release function.
Commemorative Coins on International Day of Yoga
Photo Courtesy - United News of India
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Postal Museum inaugurated at Postal Training Centre, Vadodara on 20th June 2015
The Postal Museum was inaugurated by Shri Ganesh Sawaleshwarkar, Director, Postal Training Centre, Vadodara in the premises of Postal Training Center, Vadodara on 20th June 2015. Inauguration function was well attended by local philatelists, staff members of Department of Posts and Postal Training Centre.
The postal museum displays an array of paraphernalia of the bygone era’s postal system. Leather cash bags, red cloth cash bag, old scale and weights, scale box, various badges worn by postal employees made of brass, aluminium and plastic, old Morse (telegraph) instrument , old order books of different post offices, code names and index letters book, old postal guides, post office manuals, binder, different sizes of letter boxes, wooden letter box, mobile (cycle) post office box, postman uniform and bag, leather portfolio bag, mail overseer bag, lantern, stamp cancellation machine etc. have been displayed in the museum. Philatelic covers and a statue of Halkara (postal runner) are also on display in the museum.
Courtesy – Prashant Pandya – Vadodara
Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 4, 2015
08:22:00
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Old Seminary, Kottayam – 21st April 2015
To commemorate bicentennial of Old Seminary, Kottayam commemorative stamp was released by President Shri Pranab Mukherjee at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on 21st April 2015
The Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam, traditionally known as the "Padithaveedu" or "Old Seminary" was originally a place for priestly training and a centre of English education. It was founded in 1815 by Colonel John Monroe with the help of the priest-monk Ittoop Ramban to serve the then-unified Malankara Syrian Church, to invite CMS missionaries to teach theology. It is the first Orthodox Christian School of theology in Asia.
Starting up as a centre to educate and mould-up clergies of the ancient St. Thomas Christians of India, it eventually became the cradle and headquarters of more than four Christian denominations of the Thomas Christians during the last 200 years as each of them carefully glance back. The Seminary is today, the seat of highest Orthodox Theological learning and ecumenical dealings in India. The Old Seminary is a living witness and forum of actions for many great events that took place in and around Kottayam in Central Kerala during the last 200 years.
Courtesy – Indian Philately Digest
President lauds state's tradition of religious amity
Tuesday 21 April 2015 05:33 PM ISTNew Delhi: Kerala is a model for religious cooperation and coexistence, President Pranab Mukherjee said. Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities have lived together and contributed to the social welfare of the state, he added, while releasing a stamp commemorating the bicentennial of the Old Seminary in Kottayam.
People in Kerala treated other religions with tolerance and did everything to help them propagate, he said. Hindu kings have donated land for Christians and Muslims to build their places of worship, he pointed out.
He highlighted the service of the Indian Orthodox Church in improving the quality of life of the people. The contribution of various churches is invaluable in spreading education in Kerala. One major contributor to Kerala’s universal literacy was the network of schools attached to each seminary, he said.
The churches have contributed immensely in healthcare sector too, he added. The Old Seminary in Kottayam is a brilliant example of India’s diversity, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. This is the age of information. But knowledge is spread through institutions such as the Old Seminary. He said the Old Seminary was an extraordinary institution and the stamp was a tribute to its services.
Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II Catholicos said this commemoration was not only a celebration of the past. This is a model of our commitment to preserve our heritage, he added. He said he was reiterating his commitment for peace, progress and unity. The Indian Orthodox Church wishes for the coexistence of various religions and traditions of India, he said.
Taipei welcomes back Asian stamp exhibition
A silver ingot bearing a hallmark of the first Western-style stamp issued in imperial China is set to prove popular with show-goers during the 30th Asian International Stamp Exhibition April 24-28 at Taipei World Trade Center. (CNA)
The 30th Asian International Stamp Exhibition is set to kick off April 24 at Taipei World Trade Center, bringing together rare postage collectibles from 24 Federation of Inter-Asia Philately countries and territories.
Celebrating a return to Taipei City after seven years, the philatelic event is showcasing 1,000 high-value stamps. Eye-catching offerings include five Qing dynasty (1644-1911) red revenue stamps, of which only 32 are known to exist worldwide, as well as the 1894 commemorative issue marking the empress dowager’s 60th birthday.
“Postage stamps are a nation’s calling card,” Minister of Transportation and Communications Chen Jian-yu said. “And stories told by the stamps are often culturally immersive and have a global appeal.
“Every philately exhibition seeks to connect stamp enthusiasts, spread knowledge and inspire new ideas, allowing beauty, history and milestone achievements recorded in the tiny square of a stamp to be enjoyed by all.”
According to Chen, who doubles as the honorary president of the exhibition, the event is particularly significant as it coincides with the 120th anniversary of organizer Chunghwa Post Co. Ltd. “We expect to breathe new life into this prestigious gathering, advancing cultural and intellectual enrichment while strengthening ties among FIAP members,” he added.
Other show highlights include early ROC commemorative, definitive and provisional stamps from Shanghai and Beijing; silver ingots bearing a hallmark of the first Western-style stamp issued in imperial China; and collections of past AISE first-prize winners. (YHC-JSM)
Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 4, 2015
11:14:00
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100 Years of Patna High Court
President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the centenary celebration of Patna High Court on 18th April 2015 at Patna. To mark the occasion a commemorative stamp on Patna High Court was released by President in presence of the Governor of Bihar, Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi, the Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister for Law & Justice, Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda, the Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar and the Chief Justice of India, Shri H.L. Dattu.
Patna High Court was established on 3rd February, 1916 and later affiliated under the Government of India Act 1915. The foundation stone of the existing high court building was laid on 1st December, 1913, by the then Viceroy of India, Lord Charles Hardine. After the building was formally opened by Lord Hardine on 3rd February, 1916, the court started functioning with a chief justice and six judges. Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier was the first chief justice of the Patna High Court. India's first president Rajendra Prasad and the first president of the constituent assembly, Sachchidanand Sinha, also had practiced at the court.
Courtesy – Indian Philately Digest
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Veteran philatelist of Bangalore passes away..
Veteran Philatelist of Bangalore Shri T.N. Prahlad Rao passed away today, on18th April 2015. He was a noted Olympic Philatelist and member of Karnataka Philatelic Society. He won many awards for his collection on Olympic Games. He was an active philatelist and had won award at the age of 82 in Olymphiex 2008.Rainbow Stamp Club expresses its deepest condolences . May his soul Rest in Peace.
Read article “Philately a hobby for every age group by TN Prahlad Rao “ in Rainbow Stamp News at following link :
http://rainbowstampnews.blogspot.in/2008_12_01_archive.html
Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 4, 2015
21:01:00
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India – France : 50 Years of Space Co - Operation
Date of Issue : 10 April 2015
To celebrate 50 years of space cooperation between CNES and ISRO, India Post and La Poste, France have issued a set of two commemorative stamps the SARAL/AltiKa and Megha-Tropiques satellites. Joint issue of set of two stamps was released by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande on 10th April 2015 at the Elysee Palace, Paris on 10th April 2015.India Post released also released a Miniature sheet .
Cancellations for Indian and French Issue
Indian Issue
French Issue
To mark the event, a temporary post office was opened for selling stamps and first day covers to the public at CNES’s head office in Paris Les Halles from 5.00 to 7.30 p.m. Indian stamps are in denomination of Rs. 5 (Satellite Megha-Tropiques) and Rs. 25 (Satellite Saral) where as French stamps are in denomination of € 0.76 (Satellite Saral) and 1.20 € (Satellite Megha-Tropiques).
Courtesy : Indian Philately Digest, Mansoor B. – Mangalore; Kasinath R -. Tanjore
Thứ Sáu, 10 tháng 4, 2015
10:28:00
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PM Mr. Narendra Modi & French Prez Mr. François Hollande releases stamps on 10th April 2015 to mark 50 years of Indo-French cooperation.
Indian Issue
Date of Issue : 10 April 2015
Stamp Image Courtesy – Kasinath R.. Tanjore
French Issue :
Date of Issue : 10 April 2015
India France Joint Issue cancellation : Space Co-operation
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Fifth National Stamp Fair
The fifth National Stamp Fair by Stamp Dealers’ Association will be held from June 5 – June 7 2015 at :
All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, AIFACS (Galleries C & D) , 1 Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001Time : 11am to 6pm
For Stall Booking please contact : PDA Secretary General, Rohit Prasad prasadrohit1962@yahoo.com 0 98103 04233
For more details visit : http://stampsofindia.com/NSF2015.htm
Chủ Nhật, 29 tháng 3, 2015
21:33:00
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New stamp from India
Engineers India Limited
Date of Issue : 27 March 2015
A commemorative stamp on Golden Jubilee celebration of Engineers India Limited (EIL) was released by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi during the Urja Sangam- 2015 organized by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 27th March 2015. Engineers India Limited (EIL) is a public-sector undertaking of the Government of India under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Courtesy : Indian Philately Digest
Ranchi stamp Fest 2015
Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church (G.E.L.Church)26 March 2015
Ranchi stamp fest 2015,a district level exhibition concluded with much fun and fair,on 27 March 2015. On this occasion 3 (three), special covers were released
Netarhat Vidyalaya - 60Years of excellence 26 march 2015
Swachh Bharat- Bapu Ka Sapna - 27 March 2015
Letter writing and debate competitions were organised among school children.Mr Sayed Hafizuddin,the noted philatelist of Jamshedpur was the jury of philately, and Mr Anil Saxena, philatelist from Gaya assisted as apprentice Jury, along with Mr Arun Kumar apprentice jury from Jamshedpur .
- Anil K Saxena, Gaya : email saxenaak273@yahoo.co.in
Special Covers from Hazaribagh
Vinoba Bhave University , Hazaribagh – 6 February 2015
Soil Conservation Training Centre, Hazaribagh – 6 February 2015
District Rural Development Society, Hazaribagh – 7 February 2015
: Sreejesh Krishnan , Trivandrum : email : sreejesh.nt@gmail.com
Thứ Sáu, 20 tháng 3, 2015
23:24:00
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Indian Ocean and Rajendra Chola I
Date of Issue : 20 March 2015
The three day International Conference titled “India & the Indian Ocean: Renewing the Maritime Trade & Civilisational Linkages”, was inaugurated by Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs along with Chief Minister of Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik and Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, the chief patron of the conference and Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas on 20th March 2015 at Bhubaneshwar.
On the occasion an exhibition 'Indian Ocean - The Seafaring Legacy' was also organized that touched upon all the points of civilization linkages and marks the celebration of 1000 years of coronation of Rajendra Chola I. The exhibition was inaugurated by Shri Ashok Chandra Panda, Hon’ble Minister, Tourism and Culture, Government of Odisha and Sri Arindam Mukherjee, Secretary, ISCS.
Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and Chief Minister of Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik jointly released the commemorative stamp on ‘Indian Ocean and Rajendra Chola I’ during the inauguration function on 20th March 2015 at Bhubaneshwar. The stamp is of Rs 5 denomination and depicts the ocean and a statue of the king who was extremely powerful and reigned most of South East Asia in the early 11th century. The stamp also commemorates the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of ancient Tamil King Rajendra Chola I.
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, by Antarctica). Although generally assumed to be named for India, early European writers referred to the "East Indian" Ocean, the East Indies being the name given by European travelers collectively to India, South East Asia and the Indonesian archipelago.
Rajendra Chola I (Rajendra Chola the Great) was the son of Rajaraja Chola I and considered one of the greatest rulers and military leaders of the Indian Tamil Chola Empire. He succeeded his father in 1014 CE as the Chola emperor. During his reign, he extended the influences of the already vast Chola Empire up to the banks of the river Ganges in north India and across the ocean. Rajendra’s territories extended, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and he successfully invaded the territories of Srivijaya in Malaysia, Southern Thailand and Indonesia in South East Asia with his fleet of ships. Inscriptions and historical sources assert that the Medieval Chola king Rajendra Chola I sent a naval expedition to Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia in 1025 in order to subdue Srivijaya.
Courtesy – Indian Philately Digest
New Special Covers
Karnataka Postal Circle recently released following five special covers .
2. Gunasheela ( KTK/31/2015)
3. Women's Day ( KTK/34/2015)
4.Kodagina Gowaramma (KTK/27/2015)
5.Water Colour Painting (KTK/28/2015)
Women's Day - 8 March 2015
Criticare 2015 - 4 March 2015
Gunasheela – 18 February 2015
Kodagina Gowaramma – 14 February 2015
- Suresh Rao – Bangalore : email : suresh.hobbies@gmail.com
Kolpex-2015, District Level Philatelic Exhibition at Kolkata - 11th - 13th March 2015
Kolpex-2015, district level philatelic exhibition was held from 11th to 13th March 2015 at Nazrul Tirtha Kendra, Rajarhat, Newtown, Kolkata. Exhibition was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Shri Debashish Sen, Principal Secretary of Department of Urban Development and Chairman of HIDCO.
A Special Cover on Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge) was released by Shri Sen in presence of Ms. Arundhaty Ghosh, Chief Postmaster General, West Bengal Postal Circle, Shri Subrat Das, Postmaster General, Kolkata, Shri P. M. Lal, Postmaster General, South Bengal on 11th March 2015. (Special Cover approval no. WB/02/2015)
"Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge), a Grate structural Marvel, is one of the oldest cantilever bridges in the world with immense heritage value. The twin cities of Kolkata and Howrah are separated by the river Hooghly and share a common historical linkage known as the Rabindra Setu, well known as Howrah Bridge". The Howrah Bridge was re-christened as Rabindra Setu in 1965, in honour of the country's first Noble laureate "Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore".
On 13th March 2015 a Special Cover on Core Banking Solution was released (Special Cover approval no. WB/03/2015). During the exhibition Philatelic quiz and drawing competitions were also organized.
"The Core Banking Solution (CBS) is an integrated solution that automates all aspects of banking operations. CBS enables customer to operate his accounts and avail account related services from any post office on CBS platform, regardless of where he maintains his accounts. The customer is no more the customer of a post office. He becomes the Post Office Savings Banking (POSB) Customer". Thus CBS is a step towards enhancing customer convenience through "Anywhere and Anytime Banking".
Courtesy – Indian Philately Digest
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