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Did you know? World's first airmail flight coincided with 1911 Kumbh in UP
Each of the mails carried a special postmark depicting an airplane, mountains and bore the text -- ’First Aerial Post, 1911, ...
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When the world’s first airmail took flight during 1911 Kumbh in UP
On February 18, 1911, French pilot Henri Pequet took off in his biplane from an exhibition ground, carrying about 6,500 mails and postcards and soared into the evening sky of Allahabad and into the ...
How USAID's assistance brought a poisonous 'alien' plant to India on request of Jawaharlal Nehru, and its still troubling us
The article discusses the outbreak of Parthenium, an invasive weed, in India during the 1950s. This unwelcome species, which came with grain shipments under the US PL 480 scheme, caused extensive ...