Which pair of medals did India win on 28 September at the Asian Games 2026, as noted above?

The correct answer is the women's 25m pistol individual event. Esha Singh finished with the silver medal in this competition at the Asian Games 2026, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, saying that she had put up a great score and had shown immense precision and composure on the range. Option A names the air pistol discipline, which is a separate event in the shooting programme and not the one in which this medal was won. Option C refers to a rifle event, and rifle and pistol are distinct branches of the sport with their own medals. Option D names a shotgun event, which is different again. For examinations the safe habit is to store the athlete, the medal colour and the exact discipline as one unit, because a question will usually change only one of the three to create a wrong option.

The correct answer is kurash. Pinkcy Balhara secured the bronze medal in the women's 78kg class of this sport at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister said she had displayed tremendous grit and resolve throughout the competition, wishing that she would continue to scale new heights. Options A, B and D name other combat sports that also appear at major multi-sport events, but the medal in question was won in kurash, which is a grappling sport carried on the Asian Games programme. Candidates often confuse these disciplines because the weight classes look similar, so the name of the sport should be memorised along with the weight category of 78kg and the colour of the medal. On the same day India also took a silver in shooting through Esha Singh in the women's 25m pistol individual event.

The correct answer is that the Chess Olympiad is a team competition in which countries enter squads. Nations send teams rather than lone players, so the standings are read country by country, and a side needs several players in form at the same time to finish near the top. This is why the Prime Minister's message of 28 September 2026 was addressed to India's chess players as a group and praised their collective passion and determination after the 46th edition. Option A describes a world championship match or knockout cycle for an individual title, which is a different competition altogether. Option C describes a club league, and the Olympiad is contested by national teams, not clubs. Option D is wrong because the Olympiad is conducted by FIDE, the international chess federation, and is not a school event run by a host city.

The correct answer is chess. FIDE stands for Federation Internationale des Echecs, the French name by which the world chess federation is known, and it is the body that runs the Chess Olympiad as well as the authority that confers titles such as Grandmaster. The event in the news is the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, at which the Indian players earned the Prime Minister's congratulations on 28 September 2026. Option A is wrong because badminton is governed by its own world federation and has no link with FIDE. Option C is wrong for the same reason, table tennis having a separate international federation of its own. Option D is wrong because hockey too is run by a different world body. Matching a sport with its governing federation is a standard question, and FIDE with chess is the pair to remember here.

The correct answer is the 46th edition. The message issued by the Prime Minister's Office on 28 September 2026 congratulated India's chess players on their success at the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, and it is that edition number which is the examinable fact in this item. The Chess Olympiad is numbered in one continuous sequence, so the 44th and the 45th editions, offered as options A and B, belong to earlier years and cannot be the event now in the news. Option D, the 47th, is a later edition and had not been held at the time of this message. Candidates should note that the Prime Minister praised the passion and the determination of the players as exemplary and hoped the results would encourage more youngsters to take up chess, but he did not name any individual player in the message.