Comparision :: FlipKart, EBAY Amazon Snapdeal

Flipkart is far more better as it is company that is pre-dominantly opertating for selling products from OEM. whereas e-bay is sourcing products from network suppliers. This makes product quatlity at flipkart far more reliable than e-bay.

	FlipKart	Ebay	Amazon
Origin of Company	Online selling site	Auction Site	Books Selling site
Inventory	Maintains by Flipkart	Maintains by Suppliers	Maintains by Suppliers
Quality control	FlipKart itself	Done by Suppliers	Done by Suppliers
Payment	Netbanking Debit Card, Credit Card, Cash on Delivery (C-o-D)	Not direct but through paisapay. Cash on Delivery (for PowerShip sellers only)	Eligible items will be indicated by the message "Eligible for Cash on Delivery”. Cash on Delivery cannot be used to pay for orders containing a mix of seller fulfilled items.
Price Transparency	NO hidden charges.	PaisaPay Facility Charge of 4.5% for items purchased via PaisaPay.	Convenience fees of Rs. 39.
Cashback	Instant Cashback provision. i.e. you don’t have to wait for next order to deem your cashback credits.	No such offer.	No such offer.
EMI Facility	American Express, Citi, HDFC and ICICI bank credit card holders	No such offer	No such offer
EMI charges	No Additional charges. Bank charges as applicable and is based on the bank policy..	NA	NA
Origin Company.	Profit Remains in India. As Flipkart is Indian

Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

http://www.nalandauniv.edu.in/

During the six centuries of its storied existence, there was nothing else quite like Nalanda University. Probably the first-ever large educational establishment, the college – in what is now eastern India – even counted the Buddha among its visitors and alumni. At its height, it had 10,000 students, 2,000 staff and strove for both understanding and academic excellence. Today, this much-celebrated centre of Buddhist learning is in ruins.

After a period during which the influence and importance of Buddhism in India declined, the university was sacked in 1193 by a Turkic general, apparently incensed that its library may not have contained a copy of the Koran. The fire is said to have burned and smouldered for several months.
Now this famed establishment of philosophy, mathematics, language and even public health is poised to be revived. A beguiling and ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda – and located alongside its physical ruins – has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This week, legislation that will enable the building of the university to proceed is to be placed before the Indian parliament.
"At its peak it offered an enormous number of subjects in the Buddhist tradition, in a similar way that Oxford [offered] in the Christian tradition – Sanskrit, medicine, public health and economics," Mr Sen said yesterday in Delhi.
"It was destroyed in a war. It was [at] just the same time that Oxford was being established. It has a fairly extraordinary history – Cambridge had not yet been born." He added, with confidence: "Building will start as soon as the bill passes."
The plan to resurrect Nalanda – in the state of Bihar – and establish a facility prestigious enough to attract the best students from across Asia and beyond, was apparently first voiced in the 1990s. But the idea received more widespread attention in 2006 when the then Indian president, APJ Abdul Kalam set about establishing an international "mentoring panel". Members of the panel, chaired by Mr Sen, include Singapore's foreign minister, George Yeo, historian Sugata Bose, Lord Desai and Chinese academic Wang Banwei.
A key challenge for the group is to raise sufficient funds for the university. It has been estimated that $500m will be required to build the new facility, with a further $500m needed to sufficiently improve the surrounding infrastructure. The group is looking for donations from governments, private individuals and religious groups. The governments of both Singapore and India have apparently already given some financial commitments.
Mr Sen said the new Nalanda project, whose ancestor easily predated both the University of Al Karaouine in Fez, Morocco – founded in 859 AD and considered the world's oldest, continually-operating university, and Cairo's Al Azhar University (975 AD), had already attracted widespread attention from prestigious institutions. The universities of Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Paris and Bologna had all been enthusiastic about possible collaboration.
Some commentators believe a crucial impact of the establishment of a new international university in India would be the boost it gave to higher education across Asia. A recent survey of universities by the US News and World Report magazine listed just three Asian institutions – University of Tokyo, University of Hong Kong and Kyoto University – among the world's top 25.
Writing when plans for Nalanda were first announced, Jeffery Garten, a professor in international business and trade at the Yale School of Management, said in the New York Times: "The new Nalanda should try to recapture the global connectedness of the old one. All of today's great institutions of higher learning are straining to become more international... but Asian universities are way behind." He added: "A new Nalanda could set a benchmark for mixing nationalities and culture, for injecting energy into global subject. Nalanda was a Buddhist university but it was remarkably open to many interpretations of that religion. Today, it could... be an institution devoted to global religious reconciliation."
As Mr Garten pointed out, the new university will have much to live up to. The original, located close to the border with what is now Nepal, was said to have been an architectural masterpiece, featuring 10 temples, a nine-storey library where monks copied books by hand, lakes, parks and student accommodation. Its students came from Korea, Japan, China, Persia, Tibet and Turkey, as well as from across India. The 7th Century Chinese pilgrim, Xuanzang, visited Nalanda and wrote detailed accounts of what he saw, describing how towers, pavilions and temples appeared to "soar above the mists in the sky [so that monks in their rooms] might witness the birth of the winds and clouds".
Yet the project is not without controversy. Mr Sen was yesterday asked about reports that claimed the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader who has lived for more than 50 years in the Indian town of Dharamsala, had been deliberately omitted from the project to avoid antagonising potential Chinese investors and officials. He replied: "He is heading a religion. Being religiously active may not be the same as [being] appropriate for religious studies."
The Indian authorities believe the establishment of the college would act as a global reminder of the nation's history as a centre of learning and culture. Politician Nand Kishore Singh, who sits on the country's influential federal planning commission and who is also a member of Nalanda's steering group, said legislation would be placed before the parliament this week. He added: "I think there is strong bi-partisan support."

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 I have copied my workspace to other location. Workspace contain main project and associated libraries.
When i have compiled the main project, following error occured.


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To solve this problem, Press F5 and then build all projects.

Semiconductor Companies Welcome Node In India

Sept. 13:  

The Government on Friday said the first ‘Made-in-India’ chip would be rolled out in the next two-three years.

This follows Cabinet’s decision to approve two fabrication units for which the Government will give tax breaks and subsidies.

The Government will invite other global companies to avail themselves of the incentives.

Two proposals

On Thursday, the Cabinet had approved two proposals of which one is a consortium formed by Jaiprakash Associates along with IBM and Tower Jazz of Israel.

The outlay of the proposed fab is around Rs 26,300 crore to establish the facility of 40,000 wafer per month. Technology nodes proposed are 90, 65 and 45 nanometre (nm) nodes in Phase I, 28 nm node in Phase II with the option of establishing a 22 nm node in Phase III. The proposed location is Greater Noida.

The second consortium is formed by Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation along with ST Microelectronics (France/Italy) and Silterra (Malaysia). The outlay of the proposed fab is around Rs 25,250 crore for the facility of 40,000 wafer starts per month of 300 mm size.

Technology nodes proposed are 90, 65 and 45 nm nodes in Phase I and 45, 28 and 22 nm nodes in Phase II. The proposed location is Prantij, near Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

“The Government will pick 11 per cent equity in the said projects,” Kapil Sibal, Communications and Information Technology Minister, told reporters here.

The Government has also required the technology providers to take equity of at least 10 per cent in the proposed projects. The fab facilities will be eligible for investment-linked deduction under Section 35AD of the Income Tax Act, which will provide viability gap funding in the form of an interest free loan for 10 years.

“The only way you can actually attract such investment, is by giving a large concessions other wise they are not willing to come. Chips have a global market and wherever companies are there, they can sell because there is zero duty and there is no cost on freight,” Sibal said.

He said there are security considerations also because such chips are also used in atomic, space and power sectors, adding that if it is manufactured here, it will serve the strategic purposes.

“We have the top design engineers in the world. We have been trying to set up a fab for many years and every time we have failed. Last time, Intel was here and Government of India then could not give kind of concessions that they wanted so they went to Vietnam,” he said.

The Government had in 2011 constituted an Empowered Committee to identify technology and investors and to recommend incentives to be provided to set up two fab facilities in the country.

32 firms invited

It had sent invitations to 32 global companies, out of which 16 responded and ultimately the two consortia showed interest to invest in India.

Why Ruppee Falling

Blog By: Rajinder Soni

Dollar after being stable for a long time now is climbing back up against the rupee. What do you think? Is it the right time that politician's money from Swiss banks should be taken out or will it be really late for us? Or we start depending on our own oil resources and stop importing the yellow metal from outside?
What is the current rate of dollar today?

1 US dollar = 59.27 Indian rupees.

The oil minister is going to raise petrol prices by the third quarter of this year as rupee is down again. RBI is always trying to protect rupee by selling off dollars but still has been unable to hold rupee from falling at a rapid pace. Due to rise in dollar, gold prices have slashed down. The last resort of controlling rupee fall is issuing bonds by Reserve Bank of India. To prevent further downfall of Indian rupee, RBI is considering selling dollars directly to oil marketing firms.
Now let's look into why dollar is appreciating heavily against rupee.
Recession is less in India, then why dollar is moving up when rupee must be strong.
We all know about recession and it is worse in US and better in India as compared to US, then how come dollar is appreciating with respect to Indian rupee? Don't you think that Indian rupee should go up and US dollar should move down?

There are so many reasons of depreciating rupee, but I would like to explain the first one, which is most important.
Why dollar is moving up and rupee is going down? There has been a recent fall in rupee since some days ago and a dramatic increase in dollar. It was 49.50, then 50.12, 51.10, 52.60, 53.54, 54.40 and stable, and now according to google search of "1 US dollar to INR":

1 US dollar = 59.27 Indian rupees.

Why is this happening?

First Reason - Dollar is in Demand

BRIC countries like India have emerging economy, so a huge percentage of investment in India is from outside the country, especially from US but due to recession in US, big institutions are collapsing and many of them are on the verge of breakdown. They are suffering huge losses in their country. They have to maintain their balance sheets and look strong on all statements, so to recover losses in their country, they are pulling out their investments from India. Due to this pulling out of investment by these big companies from India or in other terms disinvestment, demand of dollar is raising up and rupee is depreciating.
There was a huge interest rate differential between India and US. Now RBI is reducing all kind of rates to increase money supply in market, so deposit rates will also move downwards. It will reduce the rate differential between two countries and affect the fixed investment in India in a negative manner.

Second reason - Collapse of International Trade

If you observe in terms of international trade, commodity prices are crashing at international level.
Importers are trying to accumulate dollars, as they have to pay in terms of dollars and at the end demand is increasing against the rupee. This has not happened yet due to lack of confidence in all kind of markets.
Exporters have a very few orders from outside countries, so there is no matter of converting dollar into rupee thereby decreasing demand for rupee.
Besides the above-mentioned two reasons, there are many other reasons, which I would like share in the comments section below with you and others.
Now 1 USD is at 59.27 INR and rupee is expected to depreciate further due to RBI instructions to exporters and banks.

Major Gainers

The major gainers due to rupee down were Indian IT companies including BPOs, call center outsourcing, medical transcription outsourcing, and Indian content writers, especially Indian Adsense publishers who also earn in dollars from United States of America.

SUPER STORE IS A NEW THAN SUPER MALLS

SEE BELOW FOR AMMENDMENTS BY ME

Supermarkets in the future will be very different from the way we know them today.
Modern technology has allowed us to re-invent the way we shop and pay for our groceries and daily essentials. Here are some highlights to pique your imagination: