Current Affairs 4 April 2015

Bharti AXA General Insurance launched a new service named Smart Traveller

• The Bharti AXA GI Advantage gives individual and family plans for several travel exigencies like medical emergencies, loss of checked-in baggage, loss of travel documents (Passport, tickets etc.), 

Former Chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand honoured with the name of Minor planet as 4538 Vishyanand 

•  A minor planet was named as 4538 Vishyanand, to honour India’s first chess grandmaster, Vishwanathan Anand by Michael Rudenko, a committee member of the Minor Planet Center.
•  Other sports personalities on whom such honours have been honoured include Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Jesse Owens and Donald Bradman.

Gujarat leads in implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) during 2014-15

"Give it Up" campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

•  The objective of the campaign is to extort the better off sections of society to surrender their LPG subsidy, which would be employed in providing subsidised LPG connections to the poor.
• The Prime Minister asked companies and banks to encourage their employees to give up their subsidy.

Malli Mastan Babu, One of the India’s top mountaineer passes away

88th Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan begins in Ghumaan, Punjab

• It was inaugurated by Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari along with the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.