Which border did the arrested men say the gold had been smuggled across?

The correct answer is the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. DRI, which functions under the Ministry of Finance, is the central agency that gathers intelligence on smuggling and acts on it, and it carried out this interception at Visakhapatnam after chasing a car travelling from Kolkata towards Hyderabad. The gold, weighing 5,832.90 grams and of 24-carat purity, was valued at about Rs 8.98 crore and was seized under the Customs Act, 1962. The Central Bureau of Investigation in option A investigates corruption and serious crime and does not handle customs seizures. The Narcotics Control Bureau in option C deals with narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, not bullion smuggling. The Enforcement Directorate in option D works on foreign exchange and money laundering cases, so it is not the agency that made this recovery either.

The correct answer is a cavity below the leg space of the front passenger seat. The car revealed nothing on a first inspection, and only a long, systematic rummaging of the interior brought to light a space that had been specially fabricated beneath the leg room of the seat beside the driver. Three packets of 24-carat gold weighing 5,832.90 grams together were drawn out of that hollow. Option A is wrong because the gold was not in the spare wheel, and option C is wrong because the fuel tank was not the hiding place in this case. Option D names the dashboard, which again is not where the packets were found. In the comparable Palwal case the cavities were cut into the chassis of two vehicles rather than under a seat, which shows that carriers vary the location of such hollows.

The correct answer is the Commonwealth Games. At the Chennai jubilee the Prime Minister said India is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games of 2030, and that alongside it the country is carrying forward the dream of hosting the Olympics in 2036. He set this in the context of sport being built up as a career, with new sporting facilities and better training and support reaching young athletes, which he said is raising India's standing in world sport. Option C, the Summer Olympic Games, is the event tied to 2036 rather than 2030, so pairing it with the earlier year is the trap in this question. Option D, the Winter Olympic Games, was not mentioned at all. Option A, the Asian Games, is a continental event and no Indian hosting year for it was announced here. Hosting the Olympics also appeared among the resolutions he repeated with the students, along with a developed India by 2047, a top three economy and an Indian on the Moon.

The correct answer is 52. The Prime Minister said that in the QS Rankings of 2015 only 14 universities from India found a place, and that the latest edition of those rankings carries 52 Indian names. He offered the jump as evidence that the new education policy is lifting the quality of teaching and that institutions in the country are winning wider global recognition, which in turn leaves students with more institutions, more choices and more opportunities. Options A, B and C, namely 28, 36 and 44, are plausible looking intermediate numbers but none of them was the count given for the latest rankings. Aspirants should memorise this as a before and after pair, 14 in 2015 against 52 now, because questions on reports and rankings are usually framed around exactly such a comparison rather than a single year.

The correct answer is more than 1,300. Speaking at the jubilee, the Prime Minister said the count of universities in the country stood at about 750 in 2014 and has since crossed 1,300, a near doubling in roughly a decade. He paired that with the figure for colleges, which has moved from about 38,000 to over 52,000, and noted that several new IITs, IIMs, IIITs and AIIMS were set up in the same years. Options A and B, 900 and 1,100, understate the present count and would wrongly suggest much slower growth than the figure he gave. Option D, 1,600, overstates it; no such number was mentioned at the event. For the examination hall the safest way to hold this is as a pair of before and after figures, about 750 against more than 1,300 for universities and about 38,000 against over 52,000 for colleges.