New Special Cover from Himachal Pradesh

 

9 March 2025 : St. Edwards School. Shimla - 100 Years : Shimla 

- Smriti Rana, Shimla

New Special Cover from Uttrakhand

  

Vasatotsav 2025 : Spring Festival    : Raj Bhawan Dehradun

7-9 March 2025

7 March 2025 : Jatamansi : Dehradun

A special cover was released  on 7 March 2025 by Governor, Uttrakhand on the inauguartion of Flower Show ( Spring Festival 2025) at Raj Bhawan, Dehradun. The cover features Jatamansi, a perennial aromatic herb. It is a medicial plant  and has various uses in making medicine, perfume and preparation of hair tonic.

Image Courtesy : Ruchi Awasthi

International Women's Day

  

International Women’s Day

Date of Issue : 8 March 2025

United Nations Postal Administration marks International Women’s Day by issuing a set of 6 stamps on March 8, 2025. Each of the six stamp designs depicts one of six themes: Planet, Power, Safety, Prosperity, Peace and Access.

On 8 March 2025, UNPA will celebrate International Women’s Day with the issuance of six stamps and a souvenir card. This year’s theme “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind. Central to this vision is empowering the next generation—youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls—as catalyst for lasting change.

The year 2025 is a pivotal moment in the global pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as it marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, China, by 189 governments, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains the most progressive and widely endorsed blueprint for women’s and girls’ rights worldwide. The Platform guides policies, programmes and investment that impact critical areas of our lives, such as: education, health, peace, media, political participation, economic empowerment, and the elimination of violence against women and girls. Addressing these issues, along with emerging priorities around climate justice and the power of digital technologies, is urgent, with just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Under the banner of UN Women’s global campaign to mark the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, “For ALL Women and Girls”, this year’s International Women’s Day is a rallying cry to take action in three key areas:

1. Advance women’s and girls’ rights: Fight relentlessly for women’s and girls’ full range of human rights, challenging all forms of violence, discrimination, and exploitation.

2. Promote gender equality: Address systemic barriers, dismantle patriarchy, transform entrenched inequities, and elevate the voices of marginalized women and girls, including young people, to ensure inclusivity and empowerment.

3. Foster empowerment: Redefine power structures by ensuring inclusive access to education, employment, leadership, and decision-making spaces. Prioritize opportunities for young women and girls to lead and innovate.

A souvenir card with a statement by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women will also be issued on the same day.

Club News

 

Rainbow Stamp News March 2025

Dear Reader,

I am pleased to release March 2025 Issue of Rainbow Stamp News. It is available at the following link :

https://rainbowstampnews.blogspot.com/2025/03/rainbow-march-2025.html

AUSVIPEX 2025

 

Australian Virtual Philatelic Exhibition 2025 

ausvipex2025.com

AUSVIPEX -2025

Deadlines

Entries close: 28 September 2025

Title Pages to Judges: Mon 5 October 2025

Scans by: 20 Oct 2025 (but can be sent anytime up until then)

Exhibition available on line for Judges: from Friday 13 November 2025.

Exhibition available on line for public viewing: from Friday 27 November 2025.

Results available: Friday 4 December 2025.

Feedback to Exhibitors: Week commencing Mon 7 December 2025.

On Line until 28 Feb 2026

Frames Available: 500

Exhibition Website https://ausvipex2025.com

Organisation

The Australian Virtual Philatelic Exhibition 2025 (AUSVIPEX 2025) is an online National Philatelic Exhibition organised by the Australian Philatelic Federation (APF). These regulations are based on the APF Regulations for Australian Philatelic Exhibitions.

For all enquiries email: Ausvipex2025@gmail.com 

Conditions of Participation

Participation in the Exhibition is open to all exhibitors worldwide.  They do not need to be a member of an affiliated organisation. The exhibitor must be the bona-fide owner of the exhibit.

Exhibits must be of 2-8 frames based on 16 sheets (approximately 28-29 cm x 23 cm each) per frame. Page size is not critical but entries must be in the format of frames each comprising 16 single sheets or the equivalent in double pages or square pages, or a combination of single, double or square pages corresponding to a ‘frame’ in a physical exhibition.

Exhibits may come from any of the FIP or APF competitive classes, except for the One-Frame Class. Only electronic (or digital) Literature Class entries will be accepted. Exhibits will be classified and judged in their respective FIP class or Australian National Class. Judging is based on the regulations of their respective classes and these Guidelines. Each entry must be entered in the correct class.  Non-competitive entries will be by invitation of the Committee only.

Entries can be either scans of exhibits prepared and mounted on paper or exhibits prepared using scans of philatelic items with the pages prepared on a computer.  If the latter, the nature of preparation must be declared. The items scanned must be owned by the exhibitor and the scans must not be embellished in any way.

All entries will be displayed on the Exhibition website and available for public viewing.

Entry fees

The frame fee of $20 per frame (multi-frame exhibits) or $25 (Electronic Literature entries) must accompany the entry form.