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In response to
Secretary (Posts), appeal dated 08.07.2013, an amount of Rs. 1,
41,90,262/- (Rupees One Core Forty One Lakh Ninety Thousand Two Hundred and
Sixty Two only) has been contributed and deposited towards Prime Ministers
National Relief Fund (PMNRF) by the employees of Department of
Posts. To view Press Note (2013 Series) issued by Directorate,please
To read the notification issued by Postal Directorate, please
Total cost of entire set i.e. stamps, sheetlet, miniature sheet,
first day cover and information brochure is Rs. 410/-. All the members and
track in viewers are requested to purchase this valuable stamps and stationary
items from any Philatelic Bureaux.
Subject of the competition : Write a
letter describing how music can touch lives.
Date of competition : Sunday the, 5th
January 2014.
Last date of submission of forms :
21/12/2013
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India Post released a stamp to
commemorate 175 years of The Times of India on 13th November 2013. The Times of
India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. In 2008, the
newspaper reported that with a circulation of over 3.14 million it had been
certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) as the
world's largest selling English-language daily, ranking it as the third
largest selling newspaper in any language in the world. According to the Indian
Readership Survey (IRS) 2012, the Times of India is the most widely read
English newspaper in India with a readership of 76.43 lacks (7.643 million).
This ranks the Times of India as the top English daily in India by readership.
It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Times of
India was founded on 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of
Commerce in Bombay, during an intermediate period between the Mughal and
British Raj. Published every Saturday and Wednesday, The Bombay Times and
Journal of Commerce was launched as a semi-weekly edition by Raobahadur Narayan
Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian Reformist. It contained news from Britain and
the World, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. The daily editions of the paper
were started from 1850 and in 1861, the Bomay Times was renamed as The Times of
India after amalgamation of three more newspaper. In the 19th century, this
newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable cirulation
in India and Europe. After India's independence the owneership of the paper
passed on to the then famous industrial family of Dlmiyas and later it was
taken over by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Kunal Jain group from Bijnore,
UP.
