Wednesday 8 August 2018

Important Current Affairs 08/08/2018

Manirang -
It is one of the highest mountains in the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. It lies on the border between Kinnaur district and Lahaul and Spiti district. 

Scrub typhus
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It is a  mite-borne infectious disease.

symptoms-
fever
headache
muscle pain,
cough
gastrointestinal symptoms.
similar to any viral fever.

Not caused by a virus.

Caused by parasite called Orientia tsutsugamushi.
It can be transmitted by lice, ticks and fleas.

UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance)
It  provides a single platform for all Indian Citizens to access pan India e-Gov services ranging from Central to Local Government bodies and other citizen centric services.

The application is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD) in order to drive Mobile Governance in India.

This  application  basically provides a unified approach where you can install one application to avail multiple government services — almost over 100 of them.

This Application supports 12 major Indian languages in addition to English.

Mobile App - https://web.umang.gov.in/uaw/appdown.html

Thermal batter-

India became home to the world’s first-ever thermal battery plant, that was inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh .
Owned by - Bharat Energy Storage Technology Private Limited (BEST).


In 2016 Thermal battery technology was patented by Dr Patrick Glynn in India .


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