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The glycemic index or glycaemic index is a number associated with the carbohydrates in a particular type of food that indicates the effect of these carbohydrates on a person's blood glucose (also called blood sugar) level. A value of 100 represents the standard, an equivalent amount of pure glucose.

The GI represents the rise in a person's blood sugar level two hours after consumption of the food.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south. We know that, Earth is made up of 70% of water and 30% of land. Pacific Ocean covers 1/3rd of the water on the Planet Earth.

Sumitra Mahajan is the current speaker of Lok Sabha.

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Deficiency of Vitamin C causes Scurvy, Swelling of gums etc.Vitamin K causes Non-clotting of blood ,Vitamin D causes Rickets in children and Osteomalasia in adults, Vitamin B 1 causes Beriberi,B2 causes Cracking of skin,reddish eye,cracking of tongue,B3 causes Whitening of hair ,mentally retardness ,B5 causes Pallagra or 4D syndrome,B6 causes Anemia,skin disease ,B7 causes Paralysis,hair falling,B11 causes Dysentery and B12 causes Jaundice and Teroile Glutemi

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.