Which body is establishing the first dedicated centre for high-altitude medicine and public health research in India?

The correct answer is Keylong, Himachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the centre will come up at Keylong in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, and that the Union Health Minister will lay its foundation stone there. The district was chosen because it is a high-altitude, tribal and strategically significant border area, which makes it suitable for long-running field studies on mountain populations. Option A, Leh in Ladakh, is wrong because, although it is also a high-altitude town, the centre announced is not located there. Option C, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the announcement. Option D, Munsiyari in Uttarakhand, is wrong as well, since no site in that state has been named. Candidates should tie the centre to Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is the Green ICMR Campus Initiative. The Ministry has said that after the Bhumi Pujan, the ceremonial groundbreaking and the unveiling of the foundation stone at Keylong, native Himalayan saplings will be planted under this initiative, and that the ceremony will also include a scientific exhibition, the launch of the institutional video and website of the centre, a presentation of the building layout and the release of a commemorative postal special cover by the Union Health Minister. Option B is wrong because no programme of that name is mentioned in the announcement. Option C is wrong because it refers to a different hill region altogether and finds no place in the plan. Option D is wrong because the activity described is tree planting on the campus of a research centre and not a cleanliness drive. Small naming details of this kind are a favourite with paper setters.

The correct answer is the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, known by the short form PM-STIAC. The clusters programme of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser was conceived in 2020 after that council recommended it, and it brings academia, research institutions, industry, startups and government together to tackle regional challenges through science, technology and innovation. Option A is wrong because NITI Aayog, the government's policy think tank, was not credited with the recommendation. Option C is wrong as the University Grants Commission deals with higher education standards and funding rather than with innovation clusters of this kind. Option D is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research runs its own chain of national laboratories and is not the body whose advice created the programme. Only option B is correct.

The correct answer is eight. Representatives of all eight Science and Technology Clusters joined the deliberations, and each of them made a presentation on its work over the two days. They are the Pune Knowledge Cluster Foundation, the Jodhpur City Knowledge and Innovation Foundation, the Bhubaneswar City Knowledge and Innovation Cluster, Delhi Research Implementation and Innovation or DRIIV, the AMTZ-Vizag Cluster, the Bengaluru Science and Technology Cluster, the Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad, and the host PI-RAHI at Chandigarh. Options A and B understate the number, and option D overstates it; none of the three matches the list of clusters that presented at the meet. The clusters were set up as regional innovation ecosystems that pull together academia, research institutions, industry, startups and government to solve regional problems, and the chair called them National Technology Accelerators. Only option C is correct.

The correct answer is the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, who holds that post, chaired the meet on 9 and 10 October 2026 at Panjab University in Chandigarh, and the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser runs the whole clusters programme. He was joined by Scientific Secretary Parvinder Maini and Vishal Choudhary, Scientist-F in his office. Option A is wrong because the Union Minister of Science and Technology was not named as the chair of this meeting. Option C is wrong although the Director of IIT Ropar did attend, as a participant rather than as the chair; the same is true of the Director of IIT Jodhpur. Option D is wrong for the same reason: the Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University took part because the host campus was hers, not because she presided. Only option B is correct.