In which year was the BRICS grouping launched, as stated at the BRICS Business Forum 2026?

The correct answer is Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. The Prime Minister named this theme while addressing the BRICS Business Forum in New Delhi, and said India had made the same mantra the base of its economic and trade policy over the past twelve years. The External Affairs Minister repeated the four words of the theme, resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability, while describing how India's Chairship has tried to carry the grouping's evolution forward. Option A is wrong because that line is the English rendering of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam and was not given as the BRICS theme in this release. Option C is wrong because no such wording appears in the account of the Forum, although multilateral trade with the WTO at its core was indeed mentioned by the Commerce Secretary. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as it names no element of the announced theme. A paper setter will usually test the exact four-part wording, so it is worth memorising in order.

The correct answer is nearly USD 1.2 trillion. Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal told the opening session that trade among the BRICS countries had risen from USD 84 billion in 2003 to nearly that level by 2024, and he used the figure to argue that the grouping is a significant and fast growing market. Option A is wrong because that is the earlier figure, the base for the comparison rather than the latest number; mixing up the two ends of a growth statement is the commonest trap in such questions. Option B is wrong because no such figure is given anywhere in the release. Option D is wrong for the same reason, and it also overstates the growth described. Remember the pair as a single fact with its two years attached, and remember alongside it that the grouping accounts for nearly one fourth of global trade.

The correct answer is the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation. The final day of the Congress opened with a commemoration ceremony for this day. Messages were read from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, from the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization and from Ms Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. The session that followed, convened with CGIAR, was on advancing South-South and triangular cooperation. The theme of the Congress itself was Transforming Dryland Agriculture with South-South Cooperation, so the observance and the theme fit together. Option A is wrong because World Food Day falls in October. Option B is wrong because World Soil Day falls in December. Option D is wrong because the day against desertification falls in June. Only the South-South Cooperation day is named in this release.

The correct answer is 170 nominations from 34 countries. The ISSCA Global Awards are an annual flagship initiative that recognises proven agricultural innovations from institutions across the Global South, chosen for their potential to be scaled up and adapted across countries. Its first edition, presented at the Dryland Congress 2026, drew nominations from Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, West Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The Mega Award, formally the ISSCA Global Award for Transformative Excellence, went to ICARDA of Lebanon, CIMMYT of Mexico and the Odisha Livelihoods Mission of India. Options A, C and D carry figures that do not match the release, and each pairs the wrong count of nominations with the wrong count of countries. In examinations such paired figures are a common trap, so remember both numbers together rather than only one of them.

The correct answer is the Delhi Declaration on Drylands. The three-day Congress ended in New Delhi and its closing plenary endorsed this document, which is written in short as 3D. Participating governments, institutions, partners and delegates backed it. The declaration sets out a shared agenda for changing dryland agriculture across the Global South through collaboration, knowledge exchange, innovation and collective action. Option A is wrong because the release names drylands and not food security in the title of the document, even though food security was discussed at the Congress. Option C is wrong because no charter of that name was adopted; the outcome was a declaration and not a charter. Option D is wrong because the document carries the name of the host city, Delhi, and not the word Bharat. Candidates should link the host city of a summit with the declaration named after it.