Which institute hosted Hack the Fork, described as India's first hackathon on Artificial Intelligence and food technology?
- A.NIFTEM-Kundli
- B.CFTRI Mysuru
- C.IIFPT Thanjavur
- D.NDRI Karnal
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Explanation
The correct answer is NIFTEM-Kundli. The National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management at Kundli, which works under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, hosted Hack the Fork on its campus, and the event has been described as India's first hackathon to bring Artificial Intelligence and food technology together. The contest ran for twenty-four hours, opening on 24 October and ending the next day with presentations before an expert jury. Options B, C and D name other food and dairy research or technology institutions, but none of them was the venue or the host of this hackathon. The organiser was Hack the Fork, a France-based non-profit initiative, which ran the event in collaboration with the Kundli institute, and the Director of NIFTEM-K, Dr. Harinder Singh Oberoi, said the exercise would help strengthen the country's food ecosystem.
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Practice Questions
Which industry's problems were the Hack the Fork teams asked to solve using Artificial Intelligence?
- A.Cold chain logistics
- B.Alternative protein industry
- C.Sugar industry
- D.Marine fisheries
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The challenge was built around harnessing Artificial Intelligence to advance that industry, and the areas opened to the teams included plant-based food innovation, fermentation technologies and food systems more broadly, along with nutritional optimisation, food safety, sustainable food production and the reduction of food waste.
Read the full explanation →Hack the Fork, the organiser of the hackathon held with NIFTEM-Kundli, is a non-profit initiative based in which country?
- A.Germany
- B.Netherlands
- C.France
- D.Singapore
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Hack the Fork is a France-based non-profit initiative, and it organised the hackathon in collaboration with NIFTEM-Kundli, with its Director, Ms. Alice Pjie, inaugurating the twenty-four hour contest on 24 October.
Read the full explanation →Shrutlekh, demonstrated live by the Digital India BHASHINI Division at ETD-2026, performs which function?
- A.Digitising manuscripts and oral histories
- B.Real-time speech transcription with simultaneous translation
- C.Managing technical terminology across languages
- D.Collecting language contributions from citizens
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The live demonstration of Shrutlekh at the symposium showed speech being written down as it was spoken and translated at the same moment, a capability intended for lecture halls, research seminars, conferences and academic discussions.
Read the full explanation →According to the figures presented at ETD-2026, how many Indian languages does BHASHINI support for text?
- A.22
- B.23
- C.36
- D.35
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The figures placed before the symposium were that BHASHINI supports 36 Indian languages for text, 23 Indian languages for voice and 35 international languages, that it has recorded over 10 billion cumulative AI inferences, and that its website translation plugin works on more than 800 government websites.
Read the full explanation →BHASHINI Pragati, the document translation workbench presented at ETD-2026, was developed for which body?
- A.Comptroller and Auditor General of India
- B.Election Commission of India
- C.NITI Aayog
- D.Reserve Bank of India
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BHASHINI Pragati is a document translation workbench that the Digital India BHASHINI Division built for the CAG, and it was put before the symposium as an example of translating structured documents, including files that run from 100 to 500 pages, with quality checks and data-security safeguards.
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