General Knowledge Questions

Nuclear power energy source generates radioactive waste.

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.

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

District cooling system is a well known and energy efficient technology adopted across the world. India's 1st district cooling system will come up in the green city Amaravathi, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh state.

District cooling system (DCS) distributes thermal energy in the form of chilled water from a central source to multiple buildings through a network of underground pipes for use in space cooling. The cooling or heat rejection is usually provided from a central cooling plant, thus eliminating the need for separate systems in individual buildings.

India has donated $ 3 lakh for a peacekeeping initiative at the United Nations pipeline for peacekeeping initiative at the UN.

Nullification is the legal theory that a state has the right to nullify (invalidate) any federal law that it deems unconstitutional

So far, there have not been any situations where this tactic has actually held up, though. In each case, nullification has failed.