India Backs ITU Joint Trials Against Telecom Fraud

The correct answer is C-DOT. ASTR is described as the artificial-intelligence based tool of C-DOT and forms one layer of India’s defence against fraudulent communications; it has helped disconnect over 82 lakh fraudulent mobile connections. Option B is wrong because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is the sector regulator and issues tariff orders and regulations rather than building this detection tool. Option C is wrong because BSNL is a state-owned telecom service provider. Option D is wrong because the National Informatics Centre builds government information technology infrastructure and websites. For the examination, hold the five layers together: blocking of spoofed international calls, ASTR, the Sanchar Saathi platform for citizen participation, the Digital Intelligence Platform for sharing intelligence, and measures for emerging channels of fraud.

The correct answer is over ₹22,800 crore. Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani cited this figure for losses suffered by Indians in 2024 to organised, cross-border fraud, which includes impersonation, digital arrest scams, voice cloning generated by artificial intelligence and deepfakes. Option A is a trap worth reading closely: ₹5,000 crore is the suspected loss the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator helped prevent in 15 months, not the total lost in 2024. Options B and D are wrong because they do not match the figure given. The minister used the number to argue that national measures alone cannot answer fraud that crosses borders, and that standards of the International Telecommunication Union for verifying caller identity across international networks are needed. He also pointed out that India has connected more than a billion people and that the next task is to make that connectivity trustworthy, since organised fraud of this kind now travels across borders through impersonation, digital arrest scams and deepfakes.

The correct answer is over 1,600. The Digital Intelligence Platform is the intelligence-sharing layer of India’s approach and links more than 1,600 organisations, among them telecom operators, banks and law-enforcement agencies. Options A, C and D are wrong because they do not match the figure given at the roundtable. The platform works alongside the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, which prevented suspected losses of over ₹5,000 crore in 15 months, and the Sanchar Saathi app, which has recorded around 25 million downloads. The minister suggested starting joint trials between willing countries on selected international routes, with different network technologies taking part, and said that as 6G networks are developed trust must be designed in from the beginning rather than bolted on afterwards.

The correct answer is India Mobile Congress 2026. The roundtable on implementing standards of the International Telecommunication Union against fraudulent communications was held on the sidelines of that Congress, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated on 8 October 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi. Options A, C and D are wrong because none of them is named as the host event in the release; they are invented or unrelated titles of the kind used as distractors. For the examination, remember the pairing of the venue Yashobhoomi with India Mobile Congress 2026 and the date of the inauguration, because several decisions and launches of the week are tied to this Congress, including India’s offer to take part in the joint trials proposed by the Union.