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Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

A special cover was released to celebrate the golden jubilee of Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla on 13th October 2015.

Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla earlier known as Himachal Pradesh Medical College started functioning in August, 1966 with intake capacity of 50 students for MBBS course.  This intake has now been increased to 100 students since 2010.  The snowdon building now housing Indira Gandhi Medical College, was earlier the official residence of Lord Kitchener, Commander in Chief of British Army in India.

The formal opening and foundation laying stone of the college was done by Smt Sushila Nayar the then Union Health Minister on 13.10.1966. The college now also runs MD/MS courses in 20 disciplines along with DM/MCH  courses  in cardiology and Cardiac - thoracic Surgery, it has so far produced 2704 MBBS Graduates 923 Post Graduates and 377 Diploma students.  The college is the biggest health institution in the State.

Cover Code: HP/04/2015
Courtesy: Sreejesh Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram.

IDSA - Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis.

A commemorative stamp on the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis  was released on 30th December 2015.

Alagumuthu Kone

A commemorative stamp on Alagumuthu Kone. a freedom fighter was released on 26th December 2015 at Madurai.

Sumitranandan Pant

India Post  released a commemorative stamp in the memory of renowned Hindi poet Sumitranandan Pant at Dehradun on 23rd December 2015. He was a famous modern Hindi poet. He was the first Hindi poet to receive the Jnanpith Award in 1968 and was also honoured with Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.

Bangalore Medical College.

A special cover was released on 25th December 2015 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Bangalore Medical College at Bengaluru.

The Bangalore Medical College was started as a private Medical college in 1955 by Mysore Education Society. It was handed over to the then Government of Mysore and later on to the Bangalore University. It is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. Now an Autonomous Institute in Karnataka it ranks among the top medical colleges in the Country. Now it is named as Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute (BMCRI). Major hospitals attached to BMCRI are  Victoria Hospital, Vani Vilas Women and Children's Hospital, Minto Ophthalmic Hospital & Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospitals.

Cover Code: KTK/55/2015
Courtesy: Suresh Rao, Bengaluru.

Patna Book Fair 2015

A Special Cover on Patna Book Fair 2015 was released on 4th December 2015. The cancellation depicts the logo of Patna Book Fair.

Cover Code: BH/10/DEC-2015
Courtesy: Sreejesh Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram.
 

Russia in FIFA World Cup Tournaments.

Russian Post released a souvenir sheet with six stamps on 1st October 2015, being the image of stamps released earlier to celebrate Russian participation in FIFA World Cup Tournaments in the year 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982 and 1986.

Russian Nuclear Industry.

A special stamp On Russian Nuclear Industry was released on 24th September 2015. The stamp depicts Rosatom, a systemically important company against the background of industrial objects silhouettes: an icebreaker, nuclear power plant and a tomographic scanner.

Navi Mumbai Festival of Stamps

Navi Mumbai Festival of stamps 2015, a district-level philatelic exhibition was held at Agri Koli Sanskruti, Navi Mumbai on 1st and 2nd December 2015. On the occasion a Special Cover on Navi Mumbai mangroves was released on 1st December 2015. The illustration on the special cover shows Rhizophora a prominent mangrove species found along the coast of Maharashtra.

Cover Code: MH/37/2015
Courtesy: Sreejesh Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram.
 

Bhai Kotwal

A special cover was released on Bhai Kotwal, Indian freedom fighter on 1st December 2015 at Matheran.

Cover Code:MH/34/2015

Courtesy: Sreejesh Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram.

Saint Vladimir the Great, the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus

Russian Post released a stamp of Saint Vladimir the Great, the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus on 25th September 2015.

Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great was a prince of Novgorod and grand prince of Kiev.He was an outstanding political figure and the one who Christianized the Kievan Rus’. He was canonized as equal to the apostles, the natal day in Russian Orthodoxy is July 15 (28).

Christmas - 2015

Intl. Indian Ocean Expedition and CSIR-National Inst. of Oceanography.

A special cover was released at Panaji on 30th November 2015 to celebrate 50 years of International Indian Ocean Expedition and golden jubilee of CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa.

Thane Division Postal Employee's Co-Op credit Society Ltd

A special cover was released on 29th November 2015 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Thane Division Postal Employee's Co-Op credit Society Ltd., Thane .

Cover Code: MH/35/2015
Courtesy: Sreejesh Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram.

Sea Fleet of Russia

Russia Post released a set of 2 stamp on Sea Fleet of Russia depicting the “Prirazlomnaya” platform in the ice and the “Mikhail Ulyanov” tanker. on 23rd September 2015.

Prirazlomnoe is the first and only field on the Russian Arctic shelf where oil production is carried out. This is the only project in the world, where production in the Arctic is performed with a stationary platform.

“Mikhail Ulyanov” Arctic Shuttle Tanker uses a double-action principle in its operation –its bow and stern are of an icebreaking form, which enables the ship to move through the ice. In winter, the ship can operate without being accompanied by an icebreaker while moving through ice up to 1.2 m thick.