Questions

In Germany, Kaiser means 'Emperor'. On 18th January, 1871 Wilhelm I was declared as Kaiser of Germany.

Adam's Bridge is the name of the bridge between India and Sri Lanka. It is also called as Rama Setu or Rama's Bridge.

Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is not dependent on the number of individuals in the population, then such factor is called Density Independent Factor. It is things that the organisms have no control over.

Here in the given options, food shortage and disease are factors that are dependent on the number of population but Floods have no dependency.

Some examples of density independent factors are :: Earth quake, fires, volcanic eruptions, floods, and  all natural calamities.

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.