Questions

The calm centre of the anticyclonic gyre in the North Atlantic, comprising a large eddy of surface water, the boundaries of which are demarcated by major current systems such as the Gulf Stream, Canaries Current, and North Atlantic Drift. The Sargasso Sea is a large, warm (18°C), saline, which is characterized by an abundance of floating brown seaweed (Sargassum).

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.

I. Inputs

• Enterprise environmental factors


• Organizational process assets


• Project scope statement


• Activity list


• Activity attributes


• Activity resource requirements


• Resource calendars


• Project management plan

               - Risk register

               - Activity cost estimates

II. Tools and Techniques

• Expert judgment


• Analogous  estimating


• Parametric estimating


• Three-point estimates 


• Reserve analysis

III. Outputs

• Activity duration estimates


• Activity attributes (updates)

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.