Who was named the Chef de Mission of the Indian contingent for the Asian Games 2026?

The correct answer is 503. At the send-off ceremony in New Delhi on 8 September 2026, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports said that a contingent of this size, made up of athletes together with support staff, is going to the Asian Games in Japan. Options A, C and D are near numbers of the kind a paper setter places around the real figure to catch a candidate who remembers the story but not the count. None of them appears in the announcement of the send-off. A second figure from the same story is often paired with this one in the examination hall: more than three hundred of the athletes in the contingent are going to the Asian Games for the first time, which the minister presented as proof of new talent and of the bench strength of Indian sport. Learn the two numbers together and the question becomes easy.

The correct answer is 2036. Speaking at the send-off of the Asian Games contingent, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said the target is that year, by which India hopes to host the Olympic Games and to be firmly established on the world stage, and he described a ten-year plan with more than thirty six thousand crore rupees allocated to improve sports infrastructure. Option A and option B are years that do not figure in his statement at all, though an aspirant may associate them with other Olympic editions. Option D is a decade that is simply not part of the plan he set out. Note how the figures in this story hang together: the money is for sports infrastructure, the plan runs for ten years, and the year named as the goal is the one in which India hopes to be the host nation.

The correct answer is over 25,000. The release says the 89th edition was held across the country at more than that many locations, with more than 5 million young people taking part and carrying the message of a drug-free youth for a developed India. Options A, C and D are round figures of the same order that do not appear in the release, and they are the sort of near-miss numbers a paper setter reaches for. Keep the two big figures of this edition together, since a question can ask for either: the participation of more than 5 million people and the spread across more than 25,000 locations. A third number belongs in the same group, namely the more than 6000 NAMO Fit India clubs that organise the cycling initiative nationwide every week, which explains how a campaign of this size is sustained.

The correct answer is Surat. The release says the 89th edition was organised there with the theme 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat', led by Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya together with Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi. The ride began at the Sardar Patel Statue at Mangadh Chowk and covered 6 km towards the Sarthana Zoo, after a warm-up of fitness activities, yoga and zumba. Option D deserves care rather than a quick rejection: the same 89th edition was also held in the national capital at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, but on a special Teachers' Day theme honouring teachers and coaches, and the main event that the release headlines is the one in Surat. Options A and C name other large cities of Gujarat and do not appear in the release at all.

The correct answer is 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat'. The release names this theme for the 89th edition and links it to the Nasha Mukti Sankalp Abhiyan, under which the Union Minister, the Deputy Chief Minister and the participants together took the Nasha Mukt Pledge. Options B, C and D are invented slogans that sound like fitness campaign lines but appear nowhere in the release. Themes are among the most commonly asked details in current affairs, so learn this one with its surrounding facts. The Minister set out four benefits of cycling that the theme ties together: it is an effective form of exercise, it supports the Nasha Mukt Bharat campaign, it helps address pollution, and it reduces fuel consumption. He also urged people to cycle on working days for short trips rather than limiting it to Sundays.