{"id":28682,"date":"2020-09-25T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28682"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:07:00","slug":"80th-birth-anniversary-of-arati-saha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/80th-birth-anniversary-of-arati-saha\/","title":{"rendered":"80th birth anniversary of Arati Saha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google dedicated its doodle to swimmer Arati Saha on her 80th birth anniversary. Saha, who has many firsts to her name, was the first woman to be awarded the Padma Shri in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Arati Saha (1940 \u2013 1994) was an Indian long distance swimmer, best known for becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel on 29 September 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the age of 12, Saha joined India\u2019s first team to participate in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. She was one of the only four women to make the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1960, she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google dedicated its doodle to swimmer Arati Saha on her 80th birth anniversary. Saha, who has many firsts to her name, was the first woman to be awarded the Padma Shri in 1960. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Arati Saha (1940 \u2013 1994) was an Indian long distance swimmer, best known for becoming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28684,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions\/28684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28682"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}