Mann Ki Baat 138th Episode Marks Surgical Strike Decade

The correct answer is 138th. The September edition of the monthly radio address, broadcast on 27 September 2026, was its 138th episode, and in it the Prime Minister looked back at ten years of the surgical strike carried out on the night of 28-29 September 2016, appealed to households to enter their own census details online, and marked the birth centenary of Ashok Singhal. Option A, the 136th, and option B, the 137th, are the numbers of earlier editions and do not match the September 2026 broadcast. Option D, the 139th, is the edition that would follow this one in a later month, so it cannot be the episode aired on this date. Aspirants are advised to note both the episode number and the date together, because questions are often framed on the pairing of the two rather than on either alone.

The correct answer is 28-29 September 2016. Indian Army soldiers crossed the Line of Control on that night and hit terrorist launch pads, and the action is described as a decisive break in the way India answers cross-border terrorism, followed later by the Balakot air strike and Operation Sindoor. Option A, 26-27 September 2015, carries the wrong year altogether. Option C, 13-14 September 2008, mixes up the strike with the serial blasts in Delhi of 13 September 2008, which took many innocent lives and were followed weeks later by the Mumbai attack. Option D, 11-12 September 2019, is invented and matches no event in the address. A useful memory hook is that the tenth anniversary of the strike falls in the same month as the broadcast itself.

The correct answer is se.census.gov.in. A household logs in with its mobile number, gives its location, fills in the family details and submits the form; nothing has to be uploaded, the whole process runs to about fifteen to twenty minutes, and a special identity number comes back that is shown to the enumerator when the visit takes place. The facility works in Hindi along with sixteen other languages. Options B and C are plausible-looking addresses but neither was named as the census facility. Option D, mybharat.gov.in, belongs to the MY Bharat youth platform on which anthem, slogan and street play contests for the Nasha Mukt Yuva Abhiyan were held, so it has nothing to do with the population count. Also remember the progress figures: more than thirty-two crore families on record and over two crore sixty lakh self-entries.

The correct answer is Modhera in Gujarat, which runs entirely on solar energy and is held up as a model of sustainability. Modhera is better known for its Sun Temple, raised by King Bhimdev the First in 1025 and attacked the very next year, when Mahmud of Ghazni also pulled down the Somnath temple; it hosts a dance festival every January after Makar Sankranti. Option A, Mana in Chamoli, is the village called the country's first village, where the census count in Uttarakhand began with 83-year-old Purnima Rawat. Option D, Bagori in Uttarkashi, is where a homestay owner filed his own census details digitally. Option C, Jharkhali in the Sundarbans, is where widowed women raise mangrove forests that protect their villages and earn them a living. Each of the three is a real place from the same address, which is exactly why they work as distractors.