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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.

Marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in economics is a metric that quantifies induced consumption, the concept that the increase in personal consumer spending (consumption) occurs with an increase in disposable income (income after taxes and transfers).

During protein synthesis process, each tRNA carries one aminoacid for protein synthesis to the ribosomes.

If a micrograph is false-colored, it means that the computer has created the colour for the object since we know that the electron microscopes sees only black and white colours.

Incapable of being seen through is Opaque in nature.