India Post releases special cover on Stephen Hawking

Mumbai: India Post today paid tribute to theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking by issuing a special cover on him.

Chief Post Master General (CPMG) of Maharashtra and Goa Circle H C Agrawal and Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Dr Sandip Trivedi jointly issued the special cover at an event held in the GPO here today.

Agrawal said that the postal department was paying tribute to the legendary scientist by releasing the special cover in all its 22 Circles.

Hawking died at the age of 76 on March 14 in his home in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.