Which three bodies jointly developed India's guidelines for nanopharmaceuticals?

The correct answer is Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, where the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology opened the congress. The meeting is hosted by the Institute of Nano Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, which is why the capital is the venue. Option A names a different Delhi venue that had no part in this congress. Option C is wrong because Vigyan Bhawan is in the capital and not in Mumbai, so the city makes the option false even though the hall is correctly named. Option D is wrong because no session of this congress was held in Bengaluru; the gathering, which drew more than 2,000 scientists and young researchers, ran under the umbrella of the International Society of Nano Medical Sciences and the International Society for Nano Medicine.

The correct answer is 210 projects with Rs 174 crore. The minister gave these numbers while setting out how the government funds nanomedicine, and said the work covers targeted drug delivery, cancer nanomedicine, infectious-disease nanomedicine, nucleic-acid and vaccine delivery, nano-diagnostics and imaging, regenerative medicine, wound healing and nanotoxicology with regulatory science. Options A and C swap the two figures or invent a fresh one, so they turn the count of projects into the money and the money into the count. Option D raises both numbers and matches nothing that was said. Aspirants should also link the funding to BIRAC, whose Biotechnology Ignition Grant, PACE, Small Business Innovation Research Initiative and Biotechnology Industry Partnership Programme help turn such research into enterprise.

The correct answer is Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, a Nobel Laureate from Stanford University in the United States, who chairs the congress and described nanomedicine as a young and quickly changing field whose promise is to deliver the right amount of a medicine to the right place at the right time, improving results while reducing toxicity. Option A is wrong because Prof. T. M. S. Chang of McGill University in Canada holds the separate post of Honorary President. Option B is wrong because Prof. Yogesh Singh attended as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi, the host university, not as Chairperson. Option D is wrong because Prof. Gobardhan Das was present as a Member of NITI Aayog among the distinguished participants at the inaugural session.

The correct answer is Dr N. Kalaiselvi, who is Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and also Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. She was present at the launch of the five magazines. Option A is wrong because Dr Geetha Vani Rayasam is the Director of CSIR-NIScPR, the institute that publishes them. Option C is wrong because Dr Meher Wan is one of the two officials who coordinated the publication work, along with Mukesh Ambadas Pund. Option D is wrong because Dr Jitendra Singh is the Union Minister of State with independent charge of the Ministry of Science and Technology, who released the magazines rather than heading CSIR. Knowing who holds each post is useful, as such pairings are asked frequently.

The correct answer is Telugu. Of the five magazines released, Vigyan Velugu is the Telugu title. Option A is wrong because the Tamil magazine is named Ariviyal Arikkaiyalar. Option C is wrong because the Marathi magazine is Vidnyan Kshitij. Option D is wrong because the Assamese magazine is Bigyan Lahar; the Bengali one, not listed here, is Bigyan Brittanto. All five are published by the CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research and carry both translated articles and original writing from their own regions. Matching each magazine with its language is the most likely way this news will be tested, so the five pairs should be learnt together rather than one by one. Remember also that the five new titles sit alongside three older ones, taking the institute's popular science publishing from three languages to eight in all, a point that can be asked directly.