INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

Definitive stamps.
Bhakra Dam.
Tenth stamp in a set of 11, issued on 15.03.1967.
Face value: 5 Indian rupee.
Printed by India Security Press, Nashik (Maharashtra).
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 41 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 399.
- Scott No. 421.
- StampWorld No. 402.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 519.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 232.

Bhakra Dam (Hindi: भाखड़ा बांध) is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bhakra Village near Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh State in northern India. Its length (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m (1,700 ft) and the width is 9.1 m (30 ft). Its height is 226 m (741 ft). Construction of the dam started in 1948 and was completed by the end of 1963. Successive stages were completed by the early 1970s. During its construction, more than 370 villages were submerged. The dam retains excess water during the monsoon and provides regulated discharge throughout the year. It also prevents damage due to monsoon flooding. Electric power is produced at the dam, and the Bhakra Canal fed by this dam provides irrigation for 10 million acres of fields (40,000 km²). The dam forms the Gobind Sagar reservoir.

INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

15th Anniversary of Indian Mountaineering Foundation.
Mount Everest.
Stamp issued on 15.05.1973.
Face value: 20 Indian paisa.
Printed by India Security Press, Nashik.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 565.
- Scott No. 581.
- StampWorld No. 568.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 685.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 358.

Mount Everest (in Nepali, सगरमाथा [Sagarmāthā]; in Tibetan, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ [Chomolungma]; in Chinese, 珠穆朗玛 [Zhūmùlǎngmǎ]), in the Himalayas, 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) high above sea level, it is the highest mountain on the earth's surface. It is located on the border between Nepal (on its south face) and Tibel, in China (on its north face). After several attempts, the Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and the New Zelander Edmund Hillary were the first to officially reach the summit, via the southeast ridge, on May 29, 1953. The first ascent up the north ridge was made by the Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo and Qu Yinhua on May 25, 1960. The name by which the mountain is universally known, adopted by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865, is that of the British George Everest, who had been General Surveyor of India.

Indian Mountaineering Foundation is an apex national body which organize and support, mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the Himalayas. The organization also promote and encourage schemes for related adventure activities and environmental protection work in the Indian Himalayas. IMF was formed in 1957 as the Sponsoring Committee of the Cho Oyu Expedition. The foundation was registered on November 3, 1961.

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50th Anniversary of International Commission on Large Dams.
Hirakud Dam.
Stamp issued on 29.10.1979.
Face value: 30 Indian paisa.
Printed by Security Printing Press, Nashik.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 802.
- Scott No. 830.
- StampWorld No. 805.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 948.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 599.

Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km (9 mi) from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha. With a length of 4.8 km (3 mi) it is the longest dam in the world. Behind the dam extends a lake, Hirakud Reservoir, 55 km (34 mi) long; the area of the artificial lake is 743 km² (287 sq mi). Construction of the dam began in 1947, and it was opened in 1957. Power generation along with agricultural irrigation started in 1956, achieving full potential in 1966. Water from the dam at a later stage was allocated to various industries, primarily for mineral processing and coal fired thermal power plants in Jharsuguda and Sambalpur districts.

INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

First South Asian Regional Cooperation Meeting.
Map of South Asian region.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 08.12.1985.
Face value: 1 Indian rupee.
Printing: Photogravure.
Printed by Security Printing Press, Nasik.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1038.
- Scott No. 1104.
- StampWorld No. 1041.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1172.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 853.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia. Its member states are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Association was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 8 December 1985 (as this stamp commemorates) by seven states (Afghanistan joined in 2005). Its secretariat is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The organization promotes development of economic and regional integration. It launched the South Asian Free Trade Area in 2006. The SAARC maintains permanent diplomatic relations at the United Nations as an observer and has developed links with multilateral entities, including the European Union.

INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

8th Session of UN Conference on Climate Change, New Delhi.
Mangroves.
Minisheet issued on 30.10.2002.
Face value: 5 + 5 + 5 + 15 Indian rupee.
Design: K. Singh.
Printed by Calcutta Security Printers, Ltd., Kanpur.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 192 x 85 mm.

Catalogs 
- Michel No. BL14.
- Scott No. 1978a.
- StampWorld No. 1927-2930.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS2094.

The sessions took place in New Delhi between October 23 and November 1, 2002. Global warming and greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at this meeting. At the time of the meeting some 96 nations had ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but this was still not enough to bring it into effect internationally. Russia's agreement to ratify the Protocol, announced two months earlier at the Johannesburg Summit, would allow it to come into effect, finally, in late 2004. However, with the US refusing Kyoto and with many countries increasing their carbon emissions, there was no real progress in the climate negotiations at this meeting.

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Thanks to Kumar Biswas for his contribution (https://kumar-omnibus.blogspot.com/).

PORTUGAL

PORTUGAL.

5th centenary of the birth of Vasco da Gama.
Imitation of an antique map of Africa with the routes of Vasco da Gama's travels to India.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 30.12.1969.
Face value: 3.50 Portuguese escudos.
Design: Jaime Martins Barata (1899-1970).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Engraved and printed by Casa da Moeda, Liaboa.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.

Catalogues
- Afi No. 1061.
- Michel No. 1090.
- Scott No. 1058.
- StampWorld No. 1070.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1376.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1071.

Vasco da Gama (Sines, Portugal, ca. 1460/1469 - Cochin, India, December 24, 1524), was a Portuguese navigator and explorer. He was noted for being the commander of the first ships that sailed directly from Europe to India, the longest ocean voyage ever made. King Manuel I entrusted him with the command of a small squadron, and on July 8, 1497 he set sail from the port of Santa Maria de Belém (Lisbon) to border the African coast, round the Cape of Good Hope and go in search of India. On March 2, 1498, the fleet reached the coast of Mozambique, and after several incidents, on May 20 it reached Kappakadavu, near Calicut, on the western coast of India. After arduous negotiations to secure trade rights, on August 29, 1498, he began the difficult journey back to Portugal, where he finally arrived in September, 1499. Years later, he made two other trips to India. The Portuguese national epic, Os Lusíadas by Camões refers largely to Da Gama's travels.

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Himalayas mountains.
Fifth stamp in a set of 5, issued on 15.07.1975.
Face value: 2,00 Indian rupees.
Photograph by Charles Dutch.
Printing: Rotogravure.
Size: 23 x 41 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 639.
- StampWorld No. 642.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 448.