BRICS Bharat Innovates Expo Opens at Bharat Mandapam

The correct answer is 37. The Ministry of Education says the exposition at Bharat Mandapam is showing that many Indian deep-tech start-ups and ventures, and that they were drawn from the larger group which had taken part in the first Bharat Innovates at Nice. Option D is the trap here, because that is the size of the original cohort at Nice rather than the number on show in New Delhi; a careless reading of the release swaps the two. Option A is wrong because thirteen was the number of thematic areas into which the Nice exposition was divided. Option B is wrong because fifteen was the number of institutes shown at Nice, among them the IITs, IISc, BIRAC and iDex. Keep the four numbers apart in memory by tying each to its own label, and note that the New Delhi figure is the one tied to this event.

The correct answer is Nice in France. The release records that the first Bharat Innovates was held there from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of June 2026, under the India-France Year of Innovation, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated it together. That edition showed the country's top deep-tech ventures across thirteen thematic areas along with fifteen institutes, drew participants from twenty-nine countries and ended with funding commitments for Indian ventures. Option C is wrong, although the city does appear in the release for a different reason: it hosted the BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting and the senior officials' meeting on education in August 2026. Options B and D are wrong because neither Switzerland nor the United Arab Emirates figures anywhere in the account of the programme. The France link is worth remembering together with the India-France Year of Innovation.

The correct answer is 12 and 13 September 2026. The Ministry of Education says the exposition is being held as a lead-up to, and alongside, the summit that falls on those two days under India's BRICS Chairship. Option A is the trap, since those are the dates of the exposition itself at Bharat Mandapam, which opens a day before the leaders meet and continues through the first day of the summit. Option C is wrong because no part of the programme is placed on those dates. Option D is wrong because early August belongs to a different set of events, the BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting and the senior officials' meeting on education, both held at Bhubaneswar in Odisha. In questions of this kind, note which body is meeting on which day, since the exposition, the business forum and the leaders' summit all fall in the same week.