Dubai: Ahead of the UAE’s Mars Mission, an Indian expat in Dubai is over the moon. His collection of stamps, issued in 1964, show the country’s vision about its space missions that became real decades after its formation.
Nandlal Hiranand Mirchandani, who runs a real estate and catering businesses, is proud that his huge collection of postage stamps includes a series of stamps issued by the then Dubai Ruler late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum to mark international outer space achievements.
The stamps commemorated American astronauts’ first successful trip to outer space, under the theme ‘Honouring Astronauts.’
One of those stamps had hit the headlines in 2016 when His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, tweeted its image on the occasion of the UAE Space Agency’s second anniversary.
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Sheikh Mohammed to issue special message at book reading
Web Report/Dubai Filed on January 30, 2021
15 box sets of the Dubai Ruler s latest book up for grabs at Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature.
The new collection of children’s stories ‘My Little World’ penned by the Dubai Ruler will be celebrated at an event at the ongoing Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.
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The event will feature readings from the collection in Arabic and English; a special message from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai; and a lucky draw, giving 15 lucky children their own box set.