Post office with four mail runners opened in Ladakh
June 19th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, June 19 (IANS) A post office with four mail runners (postmen), who may cover a distance of 60 km daily, was inaugurated Tuesday at Cha-Lungnak in Jammu and Kashmir's ... Read more...
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World’s oldest post office celebrates 300th anniversary
March 3rd, 2012 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 3 (IANS) The world's oldest post office in Britain is celebrating its 300th anniversary this year.The post office in Sanquhar opened its doors in 1712, five years after ... Read more...
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Kerala chief minister’s office becomes ePost enabled
June 16th, 2010 - 9:05 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, June 16 (IANS) An ePost facility was inaugurated in Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan's office here Wednesday to facilitate communication between the government and people of the state.
The facility ... Read more...
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Postmen boycott UK house - because of ‘ferocious’ cat named Tiger!
April 9th, 2010 - 6:26 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 9 (ANI): Tiger, a 19-year-old cat, is at the centre of a row for attacking postmen and scaring them from delivering mail to its owners' address.In the past month alone ... Read more...
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To quaint post office come letters for river goddess
February 19th, 2010 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Asit Srivastava
Badaun, Feb 19 (IANS) They are addressed to "Ganga Maiya", the river goddess. And the letters come in scores every day to a small post office only a few metres ... Read more...
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MI5 waging blackmail campaign to recruit Brit Muslims informants
May 21st, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 21 (ANI): Britain's premier counter-intelligence and security agency MI5 has been accused of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment to recruit five Muslim community workers as informants.The men claim ... Read more...
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Jharkhand postal department launches e-money order service
October 11th, 2008 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Oct 11 (IANS) Jharkhand's postal department launched e-money order services here Saturday, a day after the 'national postal week' started. The e-money order services will be extended to 133 post offices ... Read more...
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Efforts to lay down fuel standards fail to move government body (Re-issue)
September 12th, 2008 - 9:53 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sept.12 (ANI): As the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) continues to dither in making concrete move towards getting mandatory fuel efficiency standards for India, Greenpeace "climate cops doubling up ... Read more...
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Greek Postmen tops oddest book title list
September 6th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 6 (ANI): "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" has been named as the oddest book title of the past 30 years.The book by Derek Willan, a comprehensive record ... Read more...
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500 post offices to be upgraded
August 3rd, 2008 - 1:02 am ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Aug 2 (IANS) Five hundred post offices across the country will be upgraded under a special project to be launched later this month, Minister of State for IT and Communication Jyotiraditya ... Read more...
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