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Postcard showing the 12 November 2026 Dr Salim Ali cancellation and a separate NAGPEX 2026 exhibition impression.🇮🇳 India

Nagpur issued a special postal cancellation honouring Dr Salim Ali on 12 November 2026. A postcard reproduced by MB’s Stamps of India shows the rectangular marking, with birds and a figure looking ...

Why It Matters

The postcard documents the dated Salim Ali cancellation alongside a separate NAGPEX exhibition impression.

Updated13 Nov'26News Date13 Nov'26Event12 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Karachi–Calcutta first-flight cover with a 7 July 1933 cachet, two stamps and a blue air mail label.🇮🇳 India

Philately Cart’s 7 November auction in Patna listed 721 lots. Early catalogue entries include postcards of Kanpur and Gandhi, presentation packs and a group of early airmail covers. The airmail ent...

Why It Matters

The dated Karachi–Calcutta cover is a documented example from a catalogue that groups several forms of carried mail.

Updated12 Nov'26Event7 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Lot 15018 image: 1954 India postage centenary envelope with red two-annas stamp and Madras GPO cancellation.🇮🇳 India

Mumbai’s Global Agency listed 525 lots for its 8 November stamp sale. The catalogue opens with Indian first-day covers, including issues for Subramania Bharati, Children’s Day and the first World A...

Why It Matters

The catalogue brings together two treatments of the 1954 postage centenary and newer covers tied to Maharashtra subjects.

Updated12 Nov'26Event8 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

The Hyderabad Philatelic and Hobbies Society’s HypEX 2026 is listed for 20–22 November at Federation House in Red Hills, Hyderabad. The venue is the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and...

Why It Matters

The listing gives a venue and public hours for a local show that includes stamps alongside coins and currency.

Updated12 Nov'26Event20 Nov'26–22 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Kolkata’s Chinmoyi Maa Mrinmoyi Rupe special cover with a Durga image and pictorial cancellation.🇮🇳 India

A special cover titled Chinmoyi Maa Mrinmoyi Rupe was released in Kolkata on 12 October 2026, according to MB’s Stamps of India. The cover’s illustrated panel shows two people working beside a mult...

Why It Matters

The dated specimen shows how a festival-themed adhesive and a pictorial cancellation were used on the same cover.

Updated12 Nov'26News Date10 Nov'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
SambalPEX postcard invitation listing 13–14 November 2026 and Budharaja Government High School.🇮🇳 India

The Sambalpur Postal Division scheduled SambalPEX 2026, its fourth district philatelic exhibition, for 13 and 14 November 2026 at Budharaja Government High School in Sambalpur, Odisha. The division...

Why It Matters

The division’s mailed invitation documents the dates, venue and display plan for the fourth district exhibition.

Updated15 Nov'26News Date8 Nov'26Event13 Nov'26–14 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Special cover showing Gangadhar Dattatraya Ambekar, a union building and the Mumbai 400001 cancellation dated 21 August 2026.🇮🇳 India

A special cover for Gangadhar Dattatraya Ambekar was released in Mumbai on 21 August 2026, according to an illustrated report published by MB’s Stamps of India on 8 November. The envelope is inscri...

Why It Matters

The illustrated Mumbai cancellation documents an Ambekar special cover alongside the separately recorded My Stamp sheet.

Updated9 Nov'26News Date8 Nov'26Event21 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India
Postcard showing a mother-and-child Infant Protection Day cancellation dated 7 November 2026 at Mangaluru 575001.🇮🇳 India

Karnataka Postal Circle released a special cancellation for Infant Protection Day on 7 November 2026. A postcard illustrated by MB’s Stamps of India shows a mother holding an infant within an arche...

Why It Matters

The illustrated postcard documents a dated Mangaluru use of Karnataka’s Infant Protection Day marking.

Updated8 Nov'26News Date7 Nov'26Event7 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
File portrait of Hariom Agrawal accompanying the Raipur exhibition announcement; not a photograph of the event.🇮🇳 India

Dakshin Kosala Mudra Utsav 2026 is scheduled for 13–15 November at Shri Ramnath Bhimsen Sabha Bhawan in Samta Colony, Raipur. The exhibition will open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. A 6 November r...

Why It Matters

The Raipur programme explicitly includes postage stamps within a three-day regional collecting exhibition.

Updated9 Nov'26News Date6 Nov'26Event13 Nov'26–15 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Visitors examine table displays at the reported Meerapur private stamp exhibition.🇮🇳 India

A private stamp exhibition in Meerapur, Prayagraj, presented postal material devoted to Mahatma Gandhi’s life, ideas and contribution to India’s freedom movement. Rainbow Stamp News carries the rep...

Why It Matters

A private stamp exhibition in Meerapur, Prayagraj, presented postal material devoted to Mahatma Gandhi’s life, ideas and contribution to India’s freedom movement.

Updated5 Nov'26News Date3 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
International Print Day pictorial cancellation with printing press, Nagpur 440001 and21October2026 date.🇮🇳 India

A Nagpur pictorial cancellation dated 21 October 2026 marks International Print Day. Rainbow Stamp News lists the marking among recent Indian special cancellations in its November bulletin. The il...

Why It Matters

A Nagpur pictorial cancellation dated 21 October 2026 marks International Print Day.

Updated5 Nov'26News Date3 Nov'26Event21 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Snow-leopard special cover with mountain landscape, Himachal Pradesh state-animal wording and Shimla cancellation dated30September2026.🇮🇳 India

A special cover featuring the snow leopard was released at Shimla on 30 September 2026. Its illustrated design shows the animal against a mountain landscape and identifies it in English and Hindi a...

Why It Matters

The cover adds a documented wildlife subject to the SIMPEX 2026 material from Shimla.

Updated5 Nov'26News Date3 Nov'26Event30 Sep'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

Jahanavi Divate’s book The Road Remembers: A Journey Through Karnataka’s Art, Heritage and Philately was scheduled for launch on 1 November 2026. The New Indian Express reported that it brings toge...

Why It Matters

Connects a completed 100-office cancellation journey with a distinct illustrated book and postcard project.

Updated2 Nov'26News Date31 Oct'26Event1 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
File portrait of Mata Bhagwati Devi Sharma; not the commemorative stamp or the 31 October release ceremony.🇮🇳 India

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla released a commemorative postage stamp honouring Mata Bhagwati Devi Sharma at the Gayatri Parivar centenary celebration in New Delhi on 31 October 2026. The release is re...

Why It Matters

Adds official release confirmation for a distinct commemorative stamp, rather than relying only on an earlier planned-issue listing.

Updated1 Nov'26News Date31 Oct'26Event31 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

A special cancellation marking World Octopus Day was released at Junagaon on 8 October 2026, according to a report published by MB’s Stamps of India on 31 October. The report identifies the place,...

Why It Matters

Documents a distinct marine-themed special cancellation and its stated place and date of use.

Updated1 Nov'26News Date31 Oct'26Event8 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

The Department of Posts released a souvenir sheet containing two commemorative postage stamps on breast cancer awareness at Dak Bhawan, New Delhi, on 30 October 2026. Director General Postal Servic...

Why It Matters

The coordinated issue combines a two-stamp souvenir sheet with picture postcards carrying health-awareness content developed with the health ministry.

Updated1 Nov'26News Date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Students gathered in the university auditorium during PHILATELIA 2026.🇮🇳 India

The Apollo University’s Directorate of Student Affairs and Philately Club organised PHILATELIA 2026 at the Dr. Prathap C. Reddy Knowledge Centre auditorium in Chittoor. The programme combined “The ...

Why It Matters

The university reports a completed philatelic education programme with named competitions and winning institutions.

Updated29 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Devprayag special cover showing the river confluence and a Tehri cancellation dated 9 October 2026.🇮🇳 India

A special cover devoted to Devprayag was released at Tehri on 9 October 2026, according to a report published by MB’s Stamps of India on 29 October. The cover identifies its subject as the origin o...

Why It Matters

Documents a distinct confluence-themed cover and its dated Tehri cancellation.

Updated29 Oct'26News Date29 Oct'26Event9 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
File photograph of Jyotiraditya Scindia seated at a meeting; not a stamp image or centenary ceremony.🇮🇳 India

The Bihar Chamber of Commerce and Industries has announced that a ₹5 commemorative postage stamp is planned for its centenary celebrations in Patna on 19 November 2026. Prabhat Khabar reported the ...

Why It Matters

Adds a specifically attributed centenary-issue announcement with proposed denomination and release date.

Updated3 Nov'26News Date28 Oct'26Event19 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
Illustrated Kaudiyala Branch Post Office river-rafting cancellation, PIN 249192, dated 10-10-2026.🇮🇳 India

A permanent pictorial cancellation depicting river rafting was released at Kaudiyala post office in Uttarakhand on 10 October 2026, according to MB’s Stamps of India’s report published on 27 Octobe...

Why It Matters

The illustrated impression documents the subject, office, PIN and release date of a new permanent tourist cancellation.

Updated27 Oct'26News Date27 Oct'26Event10 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
SAMS Shopping lot 701 illustration of the 2008 India Aga Khan miniature sheet.🇮🇳 India

SAMS Shopping’s Bidspirit catalogue titled “Auction Oct 25” lists 758 lots. The accessible catalogue includes Indian miniature sheets covering Aga Khan, the India–China joint issue, the 2008 Beijin...

Why It Matters

An auction-house catalogue offers a distinct group of modern Indian miniature sheets and multiples.

Updated26 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Creator’s PPC Compass interface image headed “Find Permanent Pictorial Cancellations Near You”.🇮🇳 India

R D’s Stamp Collection has introduced PPC Compass, a free tool for locating Indian post offices that offer permanent pictorial cancellations. Its announcement describes a finder based on either the...

Why It Matters

The creator specifies searchable distances and a partial-state coverage boundary for a dedicated cancellation-location tool.

Updated2 Nov'26News Date25 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Participants display presentation folders containing commemorative postal covers at the Varanasi air-show ceremony.🇮🇳 India

A commemorative postal item was unveiled at Varanasi’s Namo Ghat during the “Wings Over Ganges” air show on 25 October 2026, according to Dainik Jagran. Air Chief Marshal A. P. Singh took part in t...

Why It Matters

Documents a distinct postal commemoration presented during the Varanasi aerial display.

Updated25 Oct'26News Date25 Oct'26Event25 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Vinai Kumar Saxena and participants view a weaving demonstration at the 23 October Ladakh Pashmina Conclave.🇮🇳 India

Ladakh Postal Division issued a special cover depicting Ladakh’s GI-tagged Pashmina textile on 23 October 2026, according to a PTI report published that evening. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Sax...

Why It Matters

The postal cover specifically commemorates the Pashmina Conclave and recognises the textile’s growers and craft workers.

Updated26 Oct'26News Date23 Oct'26Event23 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

India’s Department of Posts has extended the deadline for artists to apply to its stamp and philatelic design panel. An office order dated 11 November 2026 moves the closing time to 15:30 on 25 Nov...

Why It Matters

The signed order gives stamp and cover designers a further two weeks to apply to the official panel.

Updated12 Nov'26News Date22 Oct'26Event25 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India
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