WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is which edition of the WorldSkills Competition?

The correct answer is 70. India's competitor contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 has 70 members. Option A is wrong, though the number is genuine in another sense: 14 is the count of young women in that contingent, which is more than a fifth of the whole squad. Option B is wrong for a similar reason, because 63 is the number of skills in which India is competing rather than the number of people competing. Option D matches nothing in the announcement at all. This question is a good example of why a candidate should tag every number with the thing it counts: competitors 70, skills 63, women 14, edition 48. Confusing any two of them is the commonest way to lose a mark on an item like this.

The correct answer is Manisha Sensarma, who is the Official Delegate of WorldSkills India and also Senior Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. She described the participation of these young women as an encouraging shift in India's skilling landscape and made the point that skills have no gender. Options B, C and D name competitors rather than officials: Sampada Desai is competing in Chemical Laboratory Technology, Smriti Nambiar in Bakery, and Krishnanjali Sahoo in Patisserie and Confectionery. Distractors of this kind work well in an examination because all four names appear in the same announcement, so a candidate who has skimmed it will remember the names without remembering which of them holds the official post.

The correct answer is think globally, engage strategically, act in cohesion. The Vice-President offered these three ideas as the philosophy behind the programme while urging countries of the Global South to respond together to challenges that cut across technology, cyberspace, artificial intelligence, energy and maritime security, climate change and supply chains. The other options are slogans associated with other contexts and were not the message delivered here, so they are wrong. In the same address he described corruption as a major challenge before Global South countries and asked delegates to build corruption-free systems at every level, and he recalled Vaccine Maitri while saying that scientific advances should benefit all of humanity, in the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. Questions on this story usually ask either for the motto or for the participation figures.

The correct answer is 22. The fourth edition of the International Strategic Engagement Programme has 38 delegates in all, and of these 25 are international delegates who have come from 22 countries, among them Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Mongolia, Nepal, Mauritius, Maldives, Oman, Guyana, Chile, Argentina, the Philippines, Thailand, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Brazil. Option C gives the number of international delegates rather than the number of countries, and option D gives the total strength of the programme including participants from India, so both are true figures attached to the wrong question. Option A does not belong to this programme at all. Three numbers travel together in this story and an examiner can ask for any one of them, so fix in mind that 38 is the total, 25 the international delegates and 22 the countries.

The correct answer is the National Security Council Secretariat. The programme is put together by the two ministries along with that secretariat, and it is conducted in association with the National Defence College, which is where such strategic courses are run. NITI Aayog is the government's policy think tank and works on development planning, not on a strategic engagement programme of this kind, so option A is wrong. The Indian Council of World Affairs is a research body on international relations and is not named among the organisers, which rules out option C. The Ministry of Home Affairs handles internal security and has no part in convening this programme, so option D is wrong as well. The Vice-President specifically thanked the secretariat and the two ministries for bringing the delegates together.