Jiang's approach to designing stamps is meticulous, with an emphasis on artistic excellence. "Once a stamp is issued, it can ...

Vladimir Putin has apologised in a rare, carefully worded Kremlin statement over the Azerbaijan Airlines flight which was downed on Christmas Day by Russian air defence systems. Picture ...

VectSharp is a library to create vector graphics (including text) in C#, without too many dependencies. VectSharp is written using .NET Core, and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Since version ...

Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on ...

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Stamp duty is a kind of tax that requires to be paid at the time of Uttar Pradesh property registration. This legal tax needs to be paid as proof for any purchase of immovable property or registration ...

Stamp duty on the purchases of second homes, buy-to-let residential properties, and companies purchasing residential property in England and Northern Ireland, will rise from 3% to 5% on Thursday.

Otherwise, the date of the first agreement is relevant.) Agreement for sale and purchase of residential properties should be stamped within 30 days after execution of the earliest agreement for the ...