How many vaccine doses did India supply during the COVID-19 pandemic, as cited at the meeting?

The correct answer is Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, who spoke for India at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 September and reaffirmed the commitment of the country to global health security. Option A is wrong because the address was delivered by the Health Secretary, the senior civil servant of the ministry, and not by the minister. Option C names the envoy who leads the mission of India at the world body, but the health intervention at this meeting came from the ministry itself. Option D names the head of the apex medical research body, which had a large role during the pandemic yet did not speak here. Such questions test whether an aspirant reads the designation carefully, so the pairing of the meeting, the venue and the exact office of the speaker should be memorised together.

The correct answer is Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing. India argued that the agreement will be judged by whether this system is fair, so that a country which shares pathogens or biological resources receives vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other technologies in return, within a reasonable time and with its sovereignty intact. Options A, B and D are invented expansions that sound plausible because each borrows a word from the vocabulary of health emergencies, but none is the term used in the agreement. Aspirants should also remember that the annex on this system was still being negotiated, that India asked the political declaration not to pre-judge those talks, and that the head of the world health body pressed for the negotiations to be concluded quickly.

The correct answer is Manisha Sensarma, who is the Official Delegate of WorldSkills India and also Senior Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. She described the participation of these young women as an encouraging shift in India's skilling landscape and made the point that skills have no gender. Options B, C and D name competitors rather than officials: Sampada Desai is competing in Chemical Laboratory Technology, Smriti Nambiar in Bakery, and Krishnanjali Sahoo in Patisserie and Confectionery. Distractors of this kind work well in an examination because all four names appear in the same announcement, so a candidate who has skimmed it will remember the names without remembering which of them holds the official post.

The correct answer is the 48th. WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition and is being held in Shanghai from 22 to 27 September 2026. India has entered a contingent of 70 competitors who are taking part across 63 skills, and 14 of those competitors are young women, which works out to more than a fifth of the squad. Options A and B are wrong because they name earlier editions of the championship, while option D is wrong because it runs ahead of the current one. Edition numbers, host cities and dates are the three details an examiner is most likely to combine in a single question about an international competition, so it is worth fixing all three together rather than remembering only the year.

The correct answer is 70. India's competitor contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 has 70 members. Option A is wrong, though the number is genuine in another sense: 14 is the count of young women in that contingent, which is more than a fifth of the whole squad. Option B is wrong for a similar reason, because 63 is the number of skills in which India is competing rather than the number of people competing. Option D matches nothing in the announcement at all. This question is a good example of why a candidate should tag every number with the thing it counts: competitors 70, skills 63, women 14, edition 48. Confusing any two of them is the commonest way to lose a mark on an item like this.