Who inaugurated the international workshop on tiger landscapes in New Delhi?

The correct answer is IBCA and the Asian Development Bank. The two formalised their partnership through an MoU at the event, marking a step towards stronger collaboration in landscape conservation, sustainable development, capacity building, knowledge exchange and nature-positive financing initiatives. Option A substitutes a different multilateral lender, which is a natural confusion, but the release names the Asian Development Bank throughout and its Country Director for India, Mia Oka, spoke at the session. Options C and D put the National Tiger Conservation Authority in place of IBCA; NTCA was one of the three joint organisers of the workshop along with IBCA and ADB, but it was not a party to the agreement. Keep the roles separate: three organisers, two signatories.

The correct answer is seven. The release describes IBCA as a global platform for cooperation among countries and institutions working for the conservation of the seven big cat species, and notes its growing role under the vision of the Prime Minister. Options A, B and D are not supported by the release and are offered because candidates often recall that the alliance covers several species without fixing the number. Along with the count, remember the framing the workshop used: tiger landscapes were discussed as natural capital, valued for ecosystem services such as water security, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, biodiversity conservation and livelihood support, with conservation, bioeconomy and ecotourism treated as drivers of sustainable livelihoods and long-term ecological security. The alliance was also urged at the workshop to lead in gathering the native wisdom of the Global South for conservation policy.

The correct answer is 40 years. Mia Oka, the Asian Development Bank's Country Director for India, said while welcoming the partnership with IBCA that 2026 marks the completion of forty years of ADB's partnership with India. She added that India brings a wide experience of ecological conservation and sustainable socio-economic development that it can share with the big cat range countries, and that ADB would help bring those countries together and create sustainable financing opportunities for ecological conservation. Options A, B and D are round figures that do not appear in the release. This anniversary is worth remembering alongside the MoU signed at the same event, since questions often pair an agreement with the milestone announced beside it, and the two were reported together in the same release.

The correct answer is the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The backgrounder states that the Government notified the National Policy on Geothermal Energy in September 2025 and that this ministry is the nodal ministry for its implementation. The same ministry runs the Renewable Energy Research and Technology Development Programme and sanctioned five research and development projects between July and August 2025 covering resource assessment, indigenous technology development and field demonstration. Option A, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, is tempting because the first wells were commissioned by the ONGC Energy Centre and because the policy allows abandoned oil and gas wells to be repurposed, but the nodal role is not with it. Option B, the Ministry of Earth Sciences, deals with the earth system sciences and is a natural but wrong guess for anything involving the Earth's interior. Option D, the Ministry of Power, handles conventional electricity and is not named here. Geothermal energy is treated as a renewable source, and the ministry follows from that.

The correct answer is 381. The backgrounder states that the Geological Survey of India has mapped 381 hot springs and identified 10 geothermal provinces across the country, and that India's theoretical geothermal prospect stands at nearly 10.6 GW, of which 42 sites have been recognised as promising for power generation and direct heat use. Option A simply reverses the digits of the correct figure, which is the oldest trick in a numbers question and catches anyone who recalls the digits but not their order. Option C is built from the count of promising sites, forty-two, and option D from the theoretical prospect of 10.6 GW, so both are made of real numbers from the same passage placed under the wrong heading. Keep the four figures of this paragraph in a line and in order: 381 hot springs, 10 provinces, 10.6 GW of prospect, 42 promising sites. The ten provinces include the Himalayan Geothermal Province and the Cambay Graben.