Which organisation dedicated the Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System to the nation in October 2026?

The correct answer is the Director General of Meteorology, IMD. The bi-annual Pre-Cyclone Exercise Meeting for the post-monsoon season, covering October to December 2026, was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at the India Meteorological Department, who is also the 3rd Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation. Options A and D are wrong because the exercise is a technical review chaired by the head of the weather office, not by a minister or by the Home Ministry, although the Ministry of Home Affairs did attend as a user agency. Option C is wrong because the National Disaster Management Authority was one of more than thirty organisations that joined the meeting as participants; the chair stayed with the IMD, which issues cyclone warnings for the country and runs the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre at New Delhi.

The correct answer is 2013 and 2014. Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phailin crossed the coast on 12 October 2013, and Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Hudhud crossed on 12 October 2014. The two storms are remembered together because they fell on the same calendar date a year apart, and because the India Meteorological Department predicted both accurately, which earned international recognition for the country’s early-warning capability and marked important milestones in India’s disaster preparedness. That coincidence of dates is the reason the new Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System was dedicated to the nation on 12 October. Options A, C and D pair the storms with the wrong years and therefore break the link with the launch date of the platform, which is what gives the date its significance for Indian forecasters.

The correct answer is the India-UK Green Hydrogen Compact, which is not among the frameworks named. Cooperation under the Council rests on three instruments: the India-UK Research and Innovation Memorandum of Understanding in option A, the Technology Security Initiative in option B, and India-UK Vision 2035 in option C. These provide the foundation on which research institutions, universities, industry and innovators work together, with attention to scientific advance and to turning research into technologies and applications. The agenda spans artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, semiconductors, critical minerals, advanced materials, biotechnology, telecommunications and net-zero technologies, and joint research also covers antimicrobial resistance, healthcare, agriculture, weather and climate science and geohazards. Candidates should memorise the three framework names together, as a question may ask for the odd one out.

The correct answer is the Department of Science and Technology with Innovate UK. This collaboration supports joint industrial research and development aimed at creating new intellectual property, technologies, processes and prototypes, and eight projects have been agreed for support in areas including advanced manufacturing, power electronics and net-zero technologies. They are at various stages of implementation. Option B wrongly pairs the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, whose Chief Executive Officer was part of the Indian delegation, with a British research body. Option C names the Technology Development Board, whose Secretary also attended, with a cultural organisation, which is not the partnership described. Option D is similarly incorrect. Aspirants should remember the pairing of the department with Innovate UK and the three technology areas named with it.

The correct answer is Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The centre is named BRIC-CDFD-ONT India Genomics Centre of Excellence, and the letters ONT stand for that company, whose Chief Financial Officer attended the opening. The Indian partners are the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council and its Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics; the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, who is also Director General of BRIC, and the Director of BRIC-CDFD were present. Option B names a sequencing firm that has no part in this centre as described. Option C and option D name large pharmaceutical companies, which are likewise not partners here. Candidates should learn to read the expansion of such hyphenated names, since the abbreviation itself often supplies the answer in an examination question.