Happy Dussehra

Greetings to all on the festive occasion of Dussehra !!

Canada Post launches Diwali stamps

 

Date of Issue : 12 September 2011

For the first time ever, Canada Post has created two picture postage stamps specifically designed to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light.

On September 12^th, Canada Post launched two Picture Postage™ Diwali stamps in preparation for next month’s celebrations. These stamps will provide the perfect finishing touch when sending Diwali greetings to friends and family across Canada.

One stamp features three candles (or diyas), with Dipawali written in Hindi and Diwali in English.  The second stamp features a lotus flower – a symbol of peace and creativity – and the words “Happy Diwali” in English and French.

Canada Post worked with the High Commission of India in Ottawa to finalize the stamp designs.

These special stamps are available in a sheet of 21 self-adhesive stamps that also includes a larger image of the stamp as a souvenir.  Price of each sheet is $17.90 and each stamp is good for mailing anywhere in Canada.

These and all Picture Postage stamps are valued at the current domestic postal rate. These stamps cost slightly more than the standard postage rate because they are created using Canada Post’s Picture Postage service.

For details on how where to purchase these stamps, or how to turn your own photos into Diwali stamps and postcards, visit : canadapost.ca/diwali.

These stamps are not available at retail counters.
Customers must order them by phone at 1-877-632-6347 or go to www.canadapost.ca

: Prakash Modi, Canada

Philatelic Tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri

 

Tribute to Lal Bahadur Shastri by Hungary Post in 1966.

Indian theme on foreign stamps

- Kenneth Sequeira

Shastriji’s   birth  year 1904 -  and place  Mughal Sarai & death  year 1966 and place – Tashkent is mentioned on the stamp .

Shastri related Post  : http://rainbowstampclub.blogspot.com/2011/01/tributes-to-lal-bahadur-shastri.html

Club News

Bird Postmark from Germany

On September 22.10.2011  a new pictorial postmark featuring  the bird RED START will be provided  in Neubrandenburg, GERMANY

The postmark  is available  from  Wolfgang Beyer ,  email:  Wolfgang.Beyer1@polizei.sachsen.de  , member of Staff from the topical collector group ARGE ZOOLOGIE . A stationery  of private order is available too.

MAHAPEX 2012

Pune will host the four-day 11th state-level philatelic exhibition, Mahapex 2012, at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch from January 13 next year.

After 25 years, Pune will be hosting such an exhibition for Maharashtra and Goa. The Prospectus of 'Mahapex 2012' was unveiled by Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra circle, Faiz-Ur-Rehman, on Friday at Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management.

Mr Rehman said that it would be a big-budget event, where renowned Indian philatelists would be participating. The show will host 400 exhibition frames exhibited by over 300 philatelists from the two states.

Suratpex 2011 ( District Level )  Philatelic Exhibition

Date : 14 & 15 th October 2011 ( Friday & Saturday )
Venue : jeevan Bharati School, Nanpura, Surat
Time : 11.00 to 06.00

News Clippings

An  article on collection  of  Mr Prem Pues Kumar a  philatelist from Jamshedpur   was published on 15th Aug 2011 in I - Next Dainik Jagaran , Jamshedpur edition. Read  Article

  Timir Rajnikant Shah – Vadodara, Deepak Modi – Jalna Maharashtra; Wolgang Beyer - Germany

International Day of Non Violence

 

 

 

Today is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated all over the country to mark the occasion of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the "Father of the Nation." The United Nations General Assembly announced on 15 June 2007 that it adopted a resolution which declared that the 2nd of October will be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Philatelic Tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri

RICH TRIBUTE: United Nations General Assembly president Ali Abdussalam Treki unveiled the Mahatma Gandhi stamp at the United Nations, New York on 2 October, 2009

2 October : International Day of Non-Violence

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

PNG Post also issued a miniature sheet on International Day of Non – Violence. The  sheet issued on 6 August 2009, depicts 4 famous world personalities, Obama, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Princess Diana.

Shastri Jayanti

Jai Jawan Jai Kissan !!

- Lal Bahadur Shastri

Today is also the the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, the great leader and second Prime Minister of India.

My Recent over..

 

Cover from Poland

   Andrzej for this beautiful Registered Cover !! I had written about these stamps on my blog sometime back.

 

From our Readers…

Directory of Stamp and coin Collectors

I am making a directory of all Collectors of Stamps in India. It will be circulated free to all members.Readers are requested to send following details for entry in directory at email : prem.stamps@gmail.com  

NAME -
AGE – SEX -
Postal ADDRESS -
COLLECTION  -
EMAIL  -
MOBILE NO. -

- Prem Pues Kumar, Jamshedpur  Ph . 09162186121 

Press Clippings

: Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

Club News

 

Rainbow Stamp News October 2011

 

Hi ! I am pleased to release October 2011 issue of Rainbow Stamp News. I have just posted on Blog.    It can be viewed at  http://rainbowstampnews.blogspot.com/ 

This is  festive time in India. Greetings to all on festive occasion of Durga Puja !  Kolkata is known for very special Durga Puja celebration all over the world !! Let’s all celebrate the great festival !! Have a Wonderful Time !!