April 23: World Book and Copyright Day

World Book and Copyright Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry - publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the World Book Capital for a year to maintain, through its own initiatives, the impetus of the Day’s celebrations. 

23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

By championing books and copyright, UNESCO stands up for creativity, diversity and equal access to knowledge, with the work across the board – from the Creative Cities of Literature network to promoting literacy and mobile learning and advancing Open Access to scientific knowledge and educational resources. With the active involvement of all stakeholders: authors, publishers, teachers, librarians, public and private institutions, humanitarian NGOs and the mass media, and all those who feel motivated to work together in this world celebration of books and authors, World Book and Copyright Day has become a platform to rally together millions of people all around the world.

At SFIT LIRC:

To commemorate the authors and celebrate "Reading", the SFIT LIRC arranged an in-house exhibition of classics.

We also displayed the information of Gyanpeeth Award Winners.

Year	Recipient(s)	Language(s)
1965 (1st)	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966 (2nd)	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	Bengali
1967 (3rd) †	Umashankar Joshi	Gujarati
1967 (3rd) †	Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu'	Kannada
1968 (4th)	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1969 (5th)	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1970 (6th)	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1971 (7th)	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1972 (8th)	Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'	Hindi
1973 (9th) †	D. R. Bendre	Kannada
1973 (9th) †	Gopinath Mohanty	Odia
1974 (10th)	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1975 (11th)	Akilan	Tamil
1976 (12th)	Ashapoorna Devi	Bengali
1977 (13th)	K. Shivaram Karanth	Kannada
1978 (14th)	Sachchidananda Vatsyayan	Hindi
1979 (15th)	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese
1980 (16th)	S. K. Pottekkatt	Malayalam
1981 (17th)	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1982 (18th)	Mahadevi Varma	Hindi
1983 (19th)	Masti Venkatesha Iyengar	Kannada
1984 (20th)	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985 (21st)	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986 (22nd)	Sachidananda Routray	Odia
1987 (23rd)	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj'	Marathi
1988 (24th)	C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989 (25th)	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990 (26th)	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1991 (27th)	Subhash Mukhopadhyay	Bengali
1992 (28th)	Naresh Mehta	Hindi
1993 (29th)	Sitakant Mahapatra	Odia
1994 (30th)	U. R. Ananthamurthy	Kannada
1995 (31st)	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1996 (32nd)	Mahasweta Devi	Bengali
1997 (33rd)	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1998 (34th)	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1999 (35th) †	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
1999 (35th) †	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
2000 (36th)	Mamoni Raisom Goswami	Assamese
2001 (37th)	Rajendra Shah	Gujarati
2002 (38th)	Jayakanthan	Tamil
2003 (39th)	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2004 (40th)	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2005 (41st)	Kunwar Narayan	Hindi
2006 (42nd) †	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2006 (42nd) †	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2007 (43rd)	O. N. V. Kurup	Malayalam
2008 (44th)	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'	Urdu
2009 (45th) †	Amarkant	Hindi
2009 (45th) †	Sri Lal Sukla	Hindi
2010 (46th)	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Kannada
2011 (47th)	Pratibha Ray	Odia
2012 (48th)	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	Telugu
2013 (49th)	Kedarnath Singh	Hindi
2014 (50th)	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2015 (51st)	Raghuveer Chaudhari	Gujarati
2016 (52nd)	Shankha Ghosh	Bengali
2017 (53rd)	Krishna Sobti	Hindi
2018 (54th)	Amitav Ghosh	English

References:

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnanpith_Award

More IT companies could have faced cyber attack, says blog

Cyber attackers may have targeted IT majors Infosys, Capgemini and Cognizant to access data of third-party company resources, according to cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, with Capgemini confirming to ET that it faced a pattern of attack similar to Wipro’s, but took quick remedial action.

KrebsOnSecurity founder Brian Krebs wrote on Friday that the “crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns” in computer systems of Wipro last month “appear to have targeted” a number of other competing providers.
The blog first reported on Tuesday that Wipro was subject to a systematic attack “over months”, which the company said was a ‘zero-day attack’ that was thwarted and a forensic investigation launched to look into it.

A zero-day attack refers to any cyber attack conducted on the same day that a software vulnerability has been discovered and for which a patch had not been set up to counter effectively.
Capgemini’s internal security centre detected and monitored suspicious activity that showed similar patterns to the attack faced by Wipro, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email to ET.  

Apple, Google, and Netflix don't require employees to have 4-year degrees, and this could soon become an industry norm

Students assume getting a four-year degree - and taking on the thousands of student loan debt that comes along with it - is the only way to get your foot in the door at top companies like Apple, Google, and Netflix.

But that isn't always true.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.businessinsider.in/apple-google-and-netflix-dont-require-employees-to-have-4-year-degrees-and-this-could-soon-become-an-industry-norm/articleshow/68819464.cms?utm_source=social_Facebook&utm_medium=social_sharing&utm_campaign=Click_through_social_share&fbclid=IwAR1C9rxJE3p0bKUbfUXoGOqE-2tsfSRXdRB6BjGJ23lG_eMx_1uY9OnRlnU (Accessed on April 22, 2019)

IT's raining jobs: TCS, Infosys, Wipro added 7 times more staff in FY19

Aggregate employee addition by the top three Indian IT services companies jumped close to seven times in FY19 as these firms went into an overdrive hiring fresh talent as well as rebadging employees of client organisations. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro together did a net addition of 64,805 (after taking into account the attrition) in the financial year ended March 31, 2019, when compared to an addition of 9,864 in FY18 and 48,350 in FY17.

While industry leader TCS added the highest number, 29,287, in FY19, it was 24,016 for Infosys and 11,502 for Wipro. In ...

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/it-s-raining-jobs-tcs-infosys-wipro-added-7-times-more-staff-in-fy19-119041900904_1.html (Accessed on April 22, 2019)