World Congress on Nanomedicine 2026 Opens in New Delhi

The correct answer is Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, where the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology opened the congress. The meeting is hosted by the Institute of Nano Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, which is why the capital is the venue. Option A names a different Delhi venue that had no part in this congress. Option C is wrong because Vigyan Bhawan is in the capital and not in Mumbai, so the city makes the option false even though the hall is correctly named. Option D is wrong because no session of this congress was held in Bengaluru; the gathering, which drew more than 2,000 scientists and young researchers, ran under the umbrella of the International Society of Nano Medical Sciences and the International Society for Nano Medicine.

The correct answer is 210 projects with Rs 174 crore. The minister gave these numbers while setting out how the government funds nanomedicine, and said the work covers targeted drug delivery, cancer nanomedicine, infectious-disease nanomedicine, nucleic-acid and vaccine delivery, nano-diagnostics and imaging, regenerative medicine, wound healing and nanotoxicology with regulatory science. Options A and C swap the two figures or invent a fresh one, so they turn the count of projects into the money and the money into the count. Option D raises both numbers and matches nothing that was said. Aspirants should also link the funding to BIRAC, whose Biotechnology Ignition Grant, PACE, Small Business Innovation Research Initiative and Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme help turn such research into enterprise.

The correct answer is Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, a Nobel Laureate from Stanford University in the United States, who chairs the congress and described nanomedicine as a young and quickly changing field whose promise is to deliver the right amount of a medicine to the right place at the right time, improving results while reducing toxicity. Option A is wrong because Prof. T. M. S. Chang of McGill University in Canada holds the separate post of Honorary President. Option B is wrong because Prof. Yogesh Singh attended as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi, the host university, not as Chairperson. Option D is wrong because Prof. Gobardhan Das was present as a Member of NITI Aayog among the distinguished participants at the inaugural session.

The correct answer is DBT, ICMR and CDSCO, that is the Department of Biotechnology, the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation. The minister said these three drew up a common framework for judging the safety, quality and effectiveness of nanopharmaceutical products, giving India a regulatory base alongside its research funding. Option B lists bodies that were not named in this context at all. Option C is wrong because BIRAC appeared in the speech as the route through which young biotechnology firms reach grants and partnership programmes, while NITI Aayog was mentioned only because one of its members attended the session. Option D is wrong because no hospital was named among the framers; the third partner with ICMR and CDSCO is the Department of Biotechnology.