Which Union Minister felicitated Safai Mitras at ICAR-CCARI in Goa during Special Campaign 6.0?

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The Department of Agricultural Research and Education and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research started the campaign on that day, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which is also observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Officials of ICAR headquarters marked the start with a cleanliness drive at the National Agricultural Science Complex at Pusa in New Delhi, and institutes across the country took up shramdaan, plogging, plantation and waste management work the same day. Option A, Independence Day, option C, Republic Day, and option D are not connected with the launch of this campaign in the announcement. The choice of the date matters for the exam: the Shramik Samman at the coastal research institute in Goa and the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme at the agricultural research institute in New Delhi were held on the same day.

The correct answer is Dr Mangi Lal Jat, who holds both posts, Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the institute's cleanliness drive and asked that Swachhata be treated as a year-round, team-based activity rather than a one-day event, linking a clean workplace with the well-being of employees, the advance of science and the health of people. He also stressed second-line leadership, the mentoring of future science leaders, the holistic development of students and accountability for the work entrusted to each person. Options A and C are not named anywhere in this announcement and work only as distractors, while option D is the Chief Minister of Goa, who appreciated the work of the coastal research institute at the Shramik Samman programme.

The correct answer is January 2025. BHARATPOL was launched then by the Union Home Minister to improve coordination, connectivity and information sharing between Indian and foreign law enforcement agencies. It places the CBI, state police headquarters working through Interpol Liaison Officers, and district police headquarters on one platform, and more than 1,400 offices of state and central agencies are connected to it. As a result, material the CBI seeks now arrives in 10 to 20 days, and sometimes in 3 to 10 days, which helps extradition cases such as this one move faster. August 2023, July 2024 and March 2026 are wrong because the platform was neither announced nor opened in those months; only the January 2025 launch is on record in the government statement.

The correct answer is 288 fugitives from 36 countries. That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy. The other three options alter either the number of fugitives or the number of countries and so do not match the official figure. Option A understates both; option B is closer but still wrong on each count; option D inflates both. Students should also link the figure to the legal groundwork of the same period: the NIA and UAPA amendments of 2019, the mission-mode drive from 2020, and the BHARATPOL platform that speeds up information sharing with the CBI.

The correct answer is Navab Virk. That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan. Indian agencies removed one layer of the disguise after another, fixed his real identity as Navpreet Singh, and obtained his deportation; he was jailed in India in drug-trafficking and other criminal cases. Navdeep Brar is wrong because no such alias is mentioned anywhere in the government statement. Nawaz Virdi is wrong: it only resembles the real alias in sound and is not the name on the Turkish papers. Noor Virk is wrong for the same reason, a near-miss on the surname alone. Candidates should fix both names together, the real one and the forged one.