How many Indian deep-tech start-ups are being shown at the BRICS Bharat Innovates Exposition?

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.

The correct answer is GEMCOVAC-19. The India-centric CEPI mission, Ind-CEPI, is implemented by BRIC-THSTI and BIRAC, and this vaccine was among its important outcomes. It received Emergency Use Authorisation. Other results of the mission include an inactivated chikungunya vaccine candidate now in Phase II and Phase III trials, and candidates against monkeypox and pan-sarbecoviruses built on Multivalent Self-assembled Nanocage technology, which are at an advanced pre-clinical stage. The partnership also created shared infrastructure: the BRIC-THSTI Bioassay Laboratory is one of CEPI's 17 centralised network laboratories and has supported eight vaccine candidates. Options B, C and D are invented names that do not appear in the release. Candidates should keep the vaccine name, the platform used and the mission that produced it together in memory.

The correct answer is USD 195.3 billion. India's bioeconomy reached that size in 2025 and recorded eighteen per cent growth over the previous year. The country's biotech startup ecosystem expanded to 11,855 startups, of which 1,780 were added in that single year, and the biopharma sector accounts for nearly thirty per cent of the bioeconomy. The Minister used these figures to argue that India's capabilities can no longer be seen only through the prism of vaccine manufacturing, since the country has moved into advanced vaccine technologies and complex biological products. Options A, B and D give sizes that do not appear in the release. In examinations a figure like this is usually paired with its year and its growth rate, so remember the three together rather than the amount alone.

The correct answer is Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. Its Board and Investors Council met in New Delhi, and the Department of Biotechnology and CEPI jointly hosted a high-level evening reception at the India International Centre. The meeting brought the organisation's governance back to India after a decade. India is a founding member of the coalition and a long-standing strategic partner. The Department of Biotechnology and BIRAC work with CEPI under a tripartite engagement strategy that was first executed in October 2019 and renewed in September 2025 for another five years. Options A, C and D are invented expansions and none of them appears in the release. Abbreviations of international health bodies are asked very often, so learn the exact words behind each letter rather than a rough sense of what the body does.