What position did India secure at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026?

The correct answer is Shanghai, in China, which hosted the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition from 23 to 26 September 2026. The contest drew more than 1,400 young competitors from about 68 countries and regions who competed across 64 skills, and India took part with its largest contingent so far. Option A is wrong because Lyon in France hosted an earlier edition and not this one. Option C is wrong because Kazan in Russia also hosted a previous edition of the competition. Option D is wrong because New Delhi did not host the event; NIFT New Delhi only served as the training centre where the Indian competitor in Fashion Technology prepared for four months before travelling. Learn the edition number along with the host city, since the pairing is a common question.

The correct answer is Retail Sales, in which Saniya Joshi of NIFT Panchkula won a silver medal. Option B is wrong because Fashion Technology was the skill of Vidhi Niravkumar Suthar, a Fashion Design graduate of NIFT Gandhinagar, who received a Medal for Excellence rather than a silver. Option C is wrong because Visual Merchandising was the skill in which Anuja Ajay Vare of NIFT Bengaluru represented India, and no medal came from that category. Option D is wrong because the silver in Digital Interactive Media Design was won by Kovid Ajay Gangrade of NIFT Mumbai. Retail Sales and Digital Interactive Media Design were among the newer and emerging skill categories highlighted at Shanghai, reflecting the growing place of digital platforms and customer experience in the fashion trade.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Textiles, which announced the achievement of the National Institute of Fashion Technology at the competition and which NIFT thanked along with its students, experts, trainers and officials. Option A is wrong because the education ministry looks after school and higher education in general and not this institute. Option C is wrong because, although the competition is about skills, NIFT is not placed under the skill development ministry. Option D is wrong because commerce and industry is not the parent ministry either. For the institute the contest offers exposure to global occupational standards, emerging technologies and industry expectations, and what it learns there is folded back into its own training methods, which is why the institute treats the outing as more than a medal count.

The correct answer is art. The Lalit Kala Akademi is the National Academy of Art and works under the Ministry of Culture, and it is this body that organises the National Exhibition of Art every year along with the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards. Option A describes the field of the national academy for the performing arts, which is a different institution. Option B points to the academy concerned with letters and literature. Option D refers to bodies dealing with crafts and handloom, which are separate again. For the examination, tie the Akademi to three things at once: the field of visual art, the annual National Exhibition of Art now in its sixty-fifth edition, and the twenty awards announced this year to twenty artists. The exhibition is held annually and is counted among the most prestigious shows of contemporary visual art in the country.

The correct answer is 270. Selection for this exhibition happens in two stages. The first-tier jury went through the entries and shortlisted two hundred and seventy artworks for presentation at the show. A separate second-tier jury was then constituted to choose the award-winning works, and it picked twenty artworks by twenty artists. Options A, B and D are not figures given in the announcement. Remember that the shortlisted works cover painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and mixed media, and that the artists used materials ranging from terracotta, ceramic and teak wood to white marble, oxidised copper, oil and acrylic on canvas, watercolour wash and etching, a spread the Akademi treats as a sign of continuing experiment in Indian visual art. The two-stage process is itself a fair question: first-tier jury for display, second-tier jury for the awards.