General Knowledge Questions

Marasmus usually is associated with a deficiency of Calories.

The rate of change of velocity is called as Acceleration.

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.

Primary productivity refers to plants that make their own food using sunlight, water and availability of nutrients. Hence, they are not limited by time.

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.