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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cotton College, Guwahati was established in the year 1901 by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, the then Chief Commissioner of the erstwhile province of Assam, with the noble mission of promoting the cause of higher education in the North-East region of India. Spread over a sprawling campus covering an area of 33.474 acres in the heart of the city of Guwahati, Cotton College, Guwahati is located about 25 kilometers away from the Gopi Nath Bordoloi International Airport, Borjhar and is about 1 kilometer away from the Assam State Transport Corporation Office and Guwahati Rail way station. The college that started in 1901 with 5 professors and 39 students, is today a premier educational institute of Assam with 244 teachers and 5000 students on its rolls. Rated as an A-grade College by the NAAC, Cotton College, Guwahati has 21 undergraduate and 20 post graduate departments in science, humanities and social science faculties. For over a century,the Cotton College has been the center for breeding academic culture and literary renaissance of North-East India, a symbol of hope and aspiration of all forward-looking people of this part of the country.

Childen's Day

Painted Strork

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Sun Temple Konark

Dhameek Stupa, Sarnath

The Monkey and the Croodile - Panchatantra story

The Tortoise and the Geese - Panchatantra story

The Crow and Snake- Panchatantra story

BHAGWAN Mahavir 2600 Birthday

Rajarshi Bhagyachandra

Samrat Pritivraj Chauwan

International Fleet Review

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Geological Survey of India

INSAT 3 B IN ORBIT

Ambedkar

Pluse polio immunization

smooth india otter stamp

Sri Sathya Sai Water Supply Project

On 23rd November 1999, the Department of Posts, Government of India, released a postage stamp and a postal cover in recognition of the pioneering service rendered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in addressing the problem of providing safe drinking water to the rural masses.

Samanta Chandra Sekhar

The Minister of State for Communications Shri Tapan Sikdar will release a special commemorative postage stamp on Samanta Chandra Sekhar, noted astronomer, at a function in Bhubaneswar on June 11, 2001. Issued by the Department of Posts (DoP), the stamp is in the denomination of Rs.3/-.

Samanta Chandra Sekhar (1835-1904) is a prominent name in traditional Indian Astronomy, who has been placed by some scholars at par with the great fours of Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta and Bhaskracharya.

Chandra Sekhar developed deep insight into astronomy through self education.

He started recording his observations and making formulations of the ideas at the age of twenty three and started putting them in the form of a treatise some three years later. The complete script of Siddhanta Darpana, his treatise, was ready by 1869, when he was thirty four. However, the work was checked and refined for twenty three years more, till it was declared by the author to be closed in 1892.

source http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10818520_ITM

INSAT-3B

India's Department of Posts has issued postage stamps in the denomination of Rs.3/- commemorating the achievements under the Indian space programme. INSAT-3B satellites that represent the country's latest achievements in satellite technology.

3. Rupees Stamp

Swami Keshawanand

On the independence day : 15 August 1999,

The Govt. of India issued a postage stamp

in the honour of Swami Keshvanand ji

for his dedication towards gramothan.

TB Assocation of India

Asian Developmet Bank - Stamp

Rose

DDA

Stamp dedicated to weavers

C Vijayaraghavachariar (1852-1944) Congress President-Nagpur, 1920

More about C Vijayaraghavachariar

Monday, September 7, 2009

Flower

Dr, Dwarkanath Kotnis

Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis was born to a doctors' family in Sholapur, Maharashtra in 1910. He had two brothers and five sisters. He studied medicine at the medical college of the University of Bombay in the early 1930s.

He is been rememberd for his selfless service to the mankind

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Children's day Stamp 1993

1988 stamp jerdon's courser

All India Radio. Akashavani

A national service planned, developed and operated by the Prasar Bharati Broadcasting Corporation of India

Sound broadcasting started in India in 1927 with the proliferation of private radio clubs. The operations of All India Radio began formally in 1936, as a government organisation, with clear objectives to inform, educate and entertain the masses.

When India attained Independence in 1947, AIR had a network of six stations and a complement of 18 transmitters. The coverage was 2.5% of the area and just 11% of the population. Rapid expansion of the network took place post Independence.

AIR today has a network of 232 broadcasting centres with 149 medium frequency(MW), 54 high frequency (SW) and 171 FM transmitters. The coverage is 91.79% of the area , serving 99.14% of the people in the largest democracy of the world. AIR covers 24 Languages and 146 dialects in home services. In Externel services, it covers 27 languages; 17 national and 10 foreign languages.

Source : http://www.allindiaradio.org