What was the theme of the AI for Good Build-a-thon 5.0 held at India Mobile Congress 2026?
- A.Agentic AI for Digital Bharat
- B.Creating innovative agents in 5G
- C.AI for Inclusive Connectivity
- D.Standards First, AI Next
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The correct answer is 'Creating innovative agents in 5G'. The Build-a-thon was organised by the Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications along with the International Telecommunication Union, and was held on the closing day of India Mobile Congress 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi. Teams from across the country built Agentic AI solutions for the telecommunications sector, and the entries included knowledge-base agents, policy and legal adviser agents and coordinator agents that orchestrate several agents at once. Options A, C and D are wrong because they were not the theme announced for this edition. The event was inaugurated by a Deputy Director of the ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, who said such solutions must be contextualised to the country, compliant with international standards and governed by local policy, and that real solutions are what reveal the policy gaps a regulator must then address.
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Practice Questions
Which team won the first prize at the AI for Good Build-a-thon 5.0?
- A.Team SNR
- B.Team Agentnet
- C.Team Netaxis, RVCE Bangalore
- D.Team Nethealers
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The correct answer is Team Netaxis of RVCE Bangalore, which won for an entry on context aware agentic orchestration of quality of service and adaptive security in resource constrained 5G. Option A is wrong because Team SNR took the second prize, for work on knowledge-grounded retrieval, deterministic constraint validation and…
Read the full explanation →How many AI prototype submissions came out of the Build-a-thon 5.0 preparation phase?
- A.12
- B.16
- C.25
- D.30
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The Build-a-thon opened in early July with more than 25 registered teams, each with about four members, and in the preparation phase experts from the International Telecommunication Union and the Department of Telecommunications held five online mentoring sessions.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Director of NIPER Raebareli, quoted on the proposed Centre of Excellence?
- A.Manoj Joshi
- B.Dr Shubhini Saraf
- C.Praveen Rao Akkinepally
- D.Dr M L Jat
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As Director of NIPER Raebareli she said the proposed Centre of Excellence would serve as a dedicated platform for structured training and certification in clinical research, and that bringing academic and industry expertise together would produce a model capable of being repeated in other regions and therapeutic areas.
Read the full explanation →The clinical research collaboration signed at New Delhi advances which flagship government initiative?
- A.Biopharma SHAKTI
- B.Ayushman Bharat
- C.Mission Indradhanush
- D.PRIP Scheme
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It is described as the central government's flagship initiative for building a stronger biopharma ecosystem, and among its goals is the creation of a thousand clinical trial sites across the country; the partnership between NIPER Raebareli and AstraZeneca India directly serves that objective.
Read the full explanation →How many clinical trial sites will be adopted under the NIPER Raebareli and AstraZeneca India collaboration?
- A.10
- B.25
- C.50
- D.100
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The partnership begins by adopting 25 clinical trial sites in emerging research geographies, assessing what each can do, and then giving the staff targeted training and mentoring while tightening documentation and the processes around ethics, safety and trial feasibility.
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