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The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

The place where the river meets the sea or ocean is called as Estuary.

Musi River or Musinuru is a tributary of the Krishna River in the Deccan Plateau flowing through Telangana state in India. Hyderabad stands on the banks of Musi river, Which divides the historic old city and the new city.

A Unicode character requires between one and four bytes of storage, depending on the encoding format used. Hence, a character requires one byte of storage.

Garbage burning is common in rural areas, but it poses health concerns and hazards to the environment. It especially affects people with sensitive respiratory systems, as well as children and the elderly.

Benefits ::

• It produces methane that can be used like natural gas.
• It partially addresses the solid waste disposal problem.
• It provides biomass energy.

Hence, it creates more space for farming is not the benefit of the burning garbage.

One atomic mass unit (AMU) is equal to the one-twelfth the mass of one carbon-12 atom.