Cannibalization(marketing)

Market cannibalization is the negative impact of a company's new product on the sales performance of its existing and related products. It refers to a situation where a new product "eats" up the sales and demand of an existing product, potentially reducing overall sales, even if sales of the new product are increasing. This can negatively affect both the sales volume and market share of the existing product.

Stock keeping unit (SKU)

Inventory management is a necessary skill to avoid the scarcity of products in your store and maintaining the  ratio of supplied and demanded product.Stock keeping unit (SKU) , a simple code can help us in such a big task in an easy manner. Let's check how??


A SKU is a unique code consisting of letters and numbers that identify characteristics about each product, such as manufacturer, brand, style, color, and size.Each store or inventory can have it's own SKUs which could or could not be same. 


Some facts about SKUs

1.  A SKU is used to track inventory in your retail store. 
2.When accessed in your POS or accounting system, a SKU is a series of numbers that track unique information related to that product.
3. SKUs are not universal.  meaning that each retailer has its own set of SKUs for its merchandise. 
4.SKU numbers are often confused with the terms barcode or UPC. While a barcode can be used like an SKU but they are not the same.

Sahitya Akademi Award

Literary honor in India
Established in 1954
First Awarded in 1955
cash Prize: Rs. 100,000.
The plaque designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.

Black Paint attack

The  activist and columinst Sudheendra Kulkarni faced a black paint attack on organizning the book launch of   former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri.

The book name was Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Policy.

Sudheendra Kulkarni :  Head of ORF (Observer Research Foundation), Former Director of PMO in 1999-2004 (for Atal Bihari Vajpayee).

Observer Research Foundation (ORF) is an independent think tank based in India. 

10 years of RTI

Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days. The Act also requires every public authority to computerise their records for wide dissemination and to proactively certain categories of information so that the citizens need minimum recourse to request for information formally. 

It was commenced on 12th  October 2015.

Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad , Padmashree 2007 and the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) was alleged to use the foreign fund as domestic fund. Her NGOs Sabrang trust License has been cancelled under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).

Liter of Light Project

Liter of Light is a global open source movement with the aim to provide an ecologically sustainable and free-of-cost source of interior light to rooms in simple dwellings with a thin roof. The device is simple: it is a transparent 1.5-2l plastic bottle, as typically used for carbonated drinks, filled with water plus a little bleach to inhibit algal growth, fitted through the roof of a house. During daytime the water inside the bottle refracts sunlight, delivering about as much light as a 40- to 60-watt incandescent bulb to the interior. A properly installed solar bottle can last up to 5 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o-Fpsw_yYPg

International Standard Book Number

 International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

•  a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code

•  created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin  for the booksellers and stationers W. H. Smith and others in 1965.

An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a book, for example an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover would each have a different ISBN.The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned after 1 January 2007, and 10 digits long if assigned before 2007. An International Standard Book Number consists of 4 parts (if it is a 10 digit ISBN) or 5 parts (for a 13 digit ISBN):

QR code

QR Code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside the industry due to its fast readability and large storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. The code consists of black modules (square dots) arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of four standardized kinds ("modes") of data (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, Kanji), or through supported extensions, virtually any kind of data.

 Invented in Japan by the Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process, the QR Code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. It was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.

QR Code

'NALCO'

National Aluminium Company Limited, abbreviated as 'NALCO', (incorporated 1981) (BSE: 532234) has units all over India at places like Angul and Damanjodi. It was incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India in 1981.

Today, it is Asia's largest, and one of the world's leading and the sixth largest, integrated aluminium complex, encompassing bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and casting, power generation, rail and port operations. It boasts of some of the world's latest and finest technology in the Aluminium manufacturing industry.

Commissioned during 1985-87, Nalco has emerged to be a star performer in production and export of alumina and aluminium, and more significantly, in propelling a self-sustained growth. It has made the country more than self sufficient in alumina and aluminium needs and has quite impressive export figures as well. Being the largest exporter of the metal in the country, it has its own section of port facilities at Visakhapatnam. All the units of NALCO employ the latest in technology and are some of the most advanced manufacturing units in the world.

The main units of NALCO are at Damanjodi (Mines & Refinery complex) and Nalconagar-Angul (Smelter & Power Plant Complex). The Bauxite mines called "Panchpatmalli Mines" is situated atop a set of five mountains called Panchpatmalli. These mines are open cast mines. The refinery complex for producing bauxite is located in Damanjodi. The smelter unit of NALCO is located in Nalconagar, Angul. The company's headquarters are located in Bhubaneswar, which is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa.

NALCO is considered to be one of the best profit making PSU in India and reaps impressively huge benefits every year. It is expanding by currently employing new projects. The ongoing second phase of expansion is set to make it the sixth largest producer of the metal in the world. The recent disinvestment issues, for the alumina giant, finally settled down after the central government decided not to disinvest profit making PSUs which meant that Nalco would not be privatized and continue to be a complete Govt of India Enterprise PSU.

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly (born June 6, 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.

Born in County Cork, Ireland, O'Reilly moved to California with his family at six weeks of age.

O'Reilly was initially interested in literature upon entering college, but after graduating from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Classics, he became involved in the field of computer user manuals. He defines his company not as a book or online publisher, nor as a conference producer (though the company does all three), but as a technology transfer company, "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." O'Reilly serves on the boards of directors of two companies, CollabNet and MySQL AB, and served on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe Systems. He also serves on the board of directors for the public-service organization Code for America.

In 2001, O'Reilly was involved in a dispute with Amazon.com, leading a protest against Amazon's one-click patent, and specifically, Amazon's assertion of that patent against rival barnesandnoble.com. The protest ended with O'Reilly and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform.

Prasar Bharati

Prasar Bharati (Hindi: प्रसार भारती; literally Broadcasting Corporation of India) is India's largest public broadcaster. It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.

Prasar Bharati was established on November 23, 1997 following a demand that the government owned broadcasters in India should be given autonomy like those in many other countries. The Parliament of India passed an Act to grant this autonomy in 1990, but it was not enacted until September 15, 1997.

Mrinal Pandey is the current chairperson of Prasar Bharati and Baljit Singh Lalli is the current CEO.

Google Developer Day

Google Developer Day is a one-day web developer-focused events around the world held annually by Google. They include seminars and codelabs on mobile and web technologies including Android, HTML5, Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit and give participants an excellent chance to learn about Google developer products as well as meet the engineers who work on them.

It has been held four times

Extrasolar planet

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. As of December 6, 2010, astronomers have announced the detection of 506 such planets, with hundreds more planet candidates awaiting to be confirmed by more detailed investigations.The vast majority have been detected through radial velocity observations and other indirect methods rather than actual imaging. Most are giant planets thought to resemble Jupiter; this partly reflects a sampling bias in that more massive planets are easier to observe with current technology. Several relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth, have also been detected and projections suggest that these will eventually be found to outnumber giant planets.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia  is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 17 million articles (over 3.4 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site.Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.
The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger and is a portmanteau from wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia.


Wikipedia is hosted and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization which also operates Wikipedia-related projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks. The Wikimedia chapters, local associations of users and supporters of the Wikimedia projects, also participate in the promotion, the development, and the funding of the project.

Alfred Nobel The Man Behind the Nobel Prize

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace. The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize. But who was Alfred Nobel? Articles, photographs, a slide show and poetry written by Nobel himself are presented here to give a glimpse of a man whose varied interests are reflected in the prize he established. Meet Alfred Nobel - scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist.

Wikileaks

WikiLeaks is an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents. The organisation has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan,Europe, Australia, and South Africa. The Guardian newspaper describes Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, as its director.

• The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006.

• Awards received

  In 2008, Index on Censorship presented WikiLeaks with their inaugural Economist New Media Award.
  In 2009, Amnesty International awarded WikiLeaks their Media Award for exposing "extra judicial killings and disappearances" in Kenya.

Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo  born 28 December 1955 is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for democratic reforms and the end ofcommunist one-party rule in China. He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in the People's Republic of China, and was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

He has served as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center since 2003. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained in response to his participation with Charter 08. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009, on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power." He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009, and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.

During his 4th prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. He is the first Chinese person to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China. He is the fourth person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Nazi Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935), the Soviet Union's Andrei Sakharov (1975), and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi(1991). And Liu is the first person since Von Ossietzky to be denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel prize for him.