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Million dollar mistake: A 24-cent stamp became one of America’s rarest due to a printing error. It turned the stamp into a collector’s prize worth $2 millionThe 1918 “Inverted Jenny” stamp was originally sold for just 24 cents, but a printing mistake left the Curtiss JN-4 airplane upside down. O...- In 1918, a Washington clerk spent $24 on 100 stamps during his lunch break. Every plane was upside down, one later sold for $2 millionA Washington clerk bought a sheet of stamps with an upside-down airplane design. This rare error, the Inverted Jenny, was later sold for a ...
- SBI loses original papers for property loan; court orders bank to pay Rs 5,000 per day penaltyThe Bombay High Court ordered State Bank of India to pay daily compensation. This order came after the bank admitted losing original proper...
- Should I make my foreign national son a co-owner of my properties for inheritance?ET Wealth Reader's Query: I’m a single parent and my only son is now a foreign national. I want to safeguard his interests and am wondering...
- Should I sell my flat and invest to earn interest, or keep it and earn rent in my retirement?ET Wealth Reader's Query: I own a two-bedroom flat in Bengaluru, which is about 10 years old, and have no outstanding loan. I am a senior c...
- In the 1870s, someone borrowed a book from Kiama Library for one month; 150 years later, Ross Simmons returned it after finding it in a fireplace, but the $20,000 inflation-adjusted fine was never charged by librariansA remarkable library mystery has been solved in Australia after Ross Simmons returned The Antiquities of Athens to Kiama Public Library, ar...
- Where art thou? From royal silverware to rare watches, what collectors are bidding for nowAs collectors broaden their horizons beyond canvases, Glynda Alves finds that India’s auction houses are witnessing growing demand for item...
- In 2024, the Baltic Sea gave up a ship filled with royal gifts that never reached a Russian TsarA Baltic Sea shipwreck discovered in 2024 may have carried gifts for Czar Alexander II. The vessel sank around 1856 or 1857 after the Crime...
- Registration of redevelopment agreement alone doesn’t trigger tax, rules ITATMumbai ITAT ruled agreement registration does not mean property receipt. Tax cannot be levied on future property rights under anti-abuse pr...
- Why boards end up rubber-stamping decisionsBoards often stifle early strategic ideas by demanding complete plans, leading to late information and limited options. Instead of challeng...
- Mumbai property registration pace starts declining on stamp duty relief withdrawalAfter witnessing massive jump in sales and property registrations for seven months since September following the state government’s decisio...
- SC asks TSIIC to pay Unitech Ltd Rs 165 cr with interest in case related to township projectIn a relief to cash-strapped Unitech Ltd, the Supreme Court Wednesday directed Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC...
- 'Don't worry about your numbers, govt values your every word': Modi to oppositionThe first session of 17th Lok Sabha will commence today.
- Hope trend of using Parliament as 'rubber stamp' is reversed: CongressThe Congress' assertion came in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks ahead of the Monsoon Session.
- Rare Mahatma Gandhi stamps sold for 500,000 pounds at UK auctionOnly 13 of the 1948 Gandhi 10-rupee Purple Brown and Lake 'Service' stamps are in circulation.
- India Post issues first My Stamp on ecommerce; features AmazonMy Stamp are customised stamp on which one can get their photo published on one side, the picture on the postage stamp features a boy carry...
- CBI arrests three Nigerians for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 18.20 lakhThree Nigerian nationals were arrested by CBI for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 18.20 lakh by luring her with purported gold ornaments.
- Land grabbing case: Delhi Court dismisses AAP MLA Manoj Kumar's bail pleaA city court dismissed the bail plea of Delhi AAP MLA Manoj Kumar in a case of alleged cheating and land-grabbing.
- NGO terms Coal ordinance as 'anti-people', asks MPs to opposeAlleging that the legislation attacks the federal structure, the NGO said the role of state governments has been reduced to mere rubber sta...
- Sotheby’s to auction rare stamp British Guiana One-Cent Magenta in New YorkSotheby’s New York will offer the most famous stamp in the world in a dedicated auction on 17 June 2014.
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