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The data on exchange rate for Japanese Yen is in per 100 Yen. The end year rate for 1998–99 pertain to March 26, 1999 of Deutsche Mark rate. Data from 1971 to 1991–92 are based on official exchange rates. Data from 1992 to 1993 onward are based on FEDAI (Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India) indicative rates.
At the time of independence (in 1947), India's currency was pegged to pound sterling, and the exchange rate was a shilling and six pence for a rupee — which worked out to ₹13.33 to the pound. [23] The dollar-pound exchange rate then was $4.03 to the pound, which in effect gave a rupee-dollar rate in 1947 of around ₹3.30.
On 22 December 1986, postal codes were introduced in Bangladesh and in the same year a postal academy was established in Rajshahi. [6] Bangladesh Government Press prints forms and files for Bangladesh Post Department. [14] On 8 July 2015, ABM Humayun was appointed director general of Bangladesh Post Office. [15]
After the end of the Second World War, the Hong Kong dollar was re-pegged to sterling at a fixed rate identical to the pre-war level. [6] Nevertheless, its unique geo-economic position afforded Hong Kong the ability to defy exchange controls by operating a dual system with the sterling area and a free exchange market principally with the US ...
Postal codes in Bangladesh are assigned to all areas in the country. And there is only five General Post Offices in Bangladesh, They are: Central General Post office, Dhaka GPO [1] assigned Code is 1000, Metropolitan General Post office, Metropolitan Dhaka [2] assigned code is 1100, Eastern General Post office Chattogram GPO [3] assigned Code 4000, Northern General Post office, Rajshahi GPO [4 ...
In the previous year, India had launched its first commercial space rocket, carrying an Italian satellite. [109] A view of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel with smoke during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In November 2008, Mumbai attacks took place. India blamed militants from Pakistan for the attacks and announced a "pause" in the ongoing peace process. [109]
Since India became independent in 1947, the postal service continues to function on a nationwide basis, providing a variety of services. The structure of the organization has the directorate at its apex; below it are circle offices, regional offices, the superintendent's offices, head post offices, sub-post offices and branch offices.
Faridkot, a state in the Punjab, was the second princely state to sign a postal convention with the Post Office of India and the smallest of all the Punjabi convention states. Predominantly agricultural it had an area of 634 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) and population of just 115,040 in 1898.