DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 17TH JAN 2017
(Daily News India)
1. WPI INFLATION RISES TO 3.39% IN DECEMBER 2016
i.
Breaking a 3-month declining trend, wholesale inflation rose to 3.39% in
December 2016.
ii.
Wholesale price index-based inflation had stood at 3.15% in November 2016, and
minus 1.06% in December 2015.
iii.
The increase was mainly due to a rise in prices of manufactured items, even as
food articles turned cheaper.
iv.
According to Ministry of commerce and industry’s data, overall wholesale food
inflation fell to minus 0.7% in December 2016, from 1.54% in November. But
inflation in manufactured articles rose to 3.67% in December, from 3.2% in
November.
2.
2016 RECORDED AS COUNTRY'S WARMEST YEAR
i.
2016 was India's warmest year ever since the documenting of meteorological
records began in 1901.
ii.
The information was revealed by the India Meteorological Department in its
release named ‘statement of a climate of India, 2016'.
iii.
2016 was warmer than last year by 0.24 degree Celsius.
3.
APP NAMED ‘SEZ INDIA’ LAUNCHED BY COMMERCE MINISTRY
i.
The Commerce Ministry has launched a mobile app ‘SEZ India’ which provides
detailed information related to special economic zones.
ii.
The app and would help the SEZ units and developers to find information easily
and track their transactions on SEZ Online System.