DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR 17/ APRIL /2020

Hey guys,

I hope everyone is safe in their respective places.

yesterday's  question answered by -

1- Kriti Sahu

2- Shubhankar dev Tripathi

ans. was - Abdul Gaffar Khan

so today's news -

1-

Fresh cases rise by over 800 govt. pegs fatality rate (मृत्यु दर ) at 3.3%

# According to reports of State Health Departments, the total number of COVID 19 cases are 13,339 and around 452 people died.(3.3 % fatality rate).

# According to ICMR report India has a capacity of testing 78,200 samples per day.

2-

Unorganised labourers need union and legal covers -

# Lockdown means loss of income for 400 million informal workers which will push them to poverty .

3- 

Rupee hits a  new low-

# rupee hit a new low to 76.87 per dollar .

# because of pandemic rupee will continue to be in pressure and will fall.

# loss of rupee leads to increase in export but decrease in import.

4-

Viswanathan Anand is the new brand ambassador for WWF India -

# V. Anand is 5 times world chess champion .

# 1st recipient (प्राप्त करने वाला) of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 1992.

keyword - WWF

full form : world wildlife fund

established : 1961

organisation : it is an international non-government organisation (NGO)

Aim : "stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature "

President - Pawan Sukhdev.

5-

People bank of China increased stake in HDFC Ltd to 1.01% -

# I have uploaded this news because people are thinking that it could cause a great effect on Indian economy that the central bank of CHina has purchased such a share of 1.01 % ( which is around of 1.75 crore). 

But guys it is not true, because China already had a share of 0.80% before this pandemic in HDFC Ltd.

So the increase is just of 0.21 percent.

# central bank of China is the biggest national bank of the world.

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Today's topic - SALT SATYAGRAHA 

The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of non violent civil disobedience movement  in colonial Indian led by Mohandas Karam Chandra Gandhi .The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action  campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. 

Another reason for this march was that the Civil Disobedience Movement needed a strong inauguration that would inspire more people to follow Gandhi's example.Mahatma Gandhi started this march with 80 of his trusted volunteers. Walking ten miles a day for 24 days, the march spanned over 240 miles (384 km), from Sabarmati ashram to Dandi, which was called  Navasari at that time (now in the state of Gujarat). Growing numbers of Indians joined them along the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6:30 am on 6 April 1930.
It ended during second round table conference .60,000 people were jailedjailed. 
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Today's question - 
Largest lake of the world??