Where was the World Circular Economy Forum 2026 held?

The correct answer is Columbia University in the United States. At the closing ceremony in Gandhinagar, Kristo Lehtonen, Director of International Programmes at SITRA, handed over the baton for organising the next edition of the forum to Columbia University. Option B is wrong despite Finland's close association with the forum series and the presence of Finnish Cabinet Minister Sari Multala at the closing session. Option C is wrong because India hosted the current edition and the handover moved the forum out of the country for the following year. Option D is wrong because no Japanese institution was named. Handover announcements of this kind are frequently asked in examinations, so aspirants should note both the outgoing host country and the incoming host together, that is India in 2026 and Columbia University in 2027.

The correct answer is 135. Additional Secretary and Central Pollution Control Board Chairman Amandeep Garg told the closing session that the exhibition held concurrently with the forum featured that many national and international exhibitors, offering a view of how circular solutions are being put into practice on the ground. He also said the forum itself comprised four plenary sessions and 16 parallel sessions covering financial, technical, social and economic aspects of the circular economy, with employment, inclusivity, gender equity and financing among the subjects discussed. Options A, B and D are near figures placed to test precise recall. A further detail worth carrying is that 80 accelerator sessions were planned for 17 and 18 September 2026 to take the ideas of the forum towards practical pathways.

The correct answer is the National Payments Corporation of India. The fest is organised principally by the Payments Council of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and the Fintech Convergence Council, and it receives support from several ministries and regulators, among them the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, NITI Aayog, the International Financial Services Centres Authority and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority. Option B is a financial sector regulator but is not listed among the organisers of this event. Option C works on foodgrain procurement and storage and has nothing to do with financial technology. Option D is an association of banks and sounds plausible to a candidate guessing from the subject, yet it does not appear in the list of organisers. Remember the three organisers together, since the question is usually set on that trio.

The correct answer is Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum. The theme of this edition is Potential to Impact, and these three technologies are described as the foundations that are moving global finance towards autonomous, programmable and secure systems for inclusive finance. Agentic AI allows a financial system to sense, decide and act in real time within governance rules. Tokenisation turns assets into programmable digital units, which permits fractional ownership and instant settlement. Quantum technology changes computation and security, and covers quantum-safe cryptography as well as advanced risk optimisation. Option A, option C and option D list technologies that are widely discussed in other contexts, and a candidate who has only skimmed the news may pick one of them, but none of these sets is the trio named in the theme. The Prime Minister too spoke of these three opening new possibilities in the financial sector.

The correct answer is Mumbai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the seventh edition of the Global Fintech Fest there on 8 September 2026, and the festival continues in the same city until 11 September 2026. Option A, New Delhi, hosts many national conferences and is therefore the most natural wrong guess, but this fest is anchored in the country's financial capital. Option C, Bengaluru, is associated with technology and start-ups, which makes it plausible for a fintech event, yet it is not the venue named here. Option D, Gandhinagar, hosts the international financial services centre at GIFT City, whose regulator supports this fest, so a well read candidate may be tempted; support from a regulator is not the same as hosting the event. While revising, fix the edition number with the city and the dates, because questions on summits almost always test that combination.