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Sunil Arora, appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Core of earth is also known as Barysphere.

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.

Nuakhai or Nuankhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Odisha and Chhattisgarh in India. Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.

Gene is a hereditary unit consisting of a sequence of DNA that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and determines a particular characteristic in an organism.

In short it is a piece or segment of chromosome.

Genes undergo mutation when their DNA sequence changes. 

Incapable of being seen through is Opaque in nature.

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