Summits and Conferences Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The 2025 SCO Summit was held in Tianjin, China.

China held the SCO chair for 2024-25, and the 25th meeting of the Council of Heads of State took place in the port city of Tianjin on 31 August and 1 September 2025. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended, his first visit to China in several years, and the summit adopted the Tianjin Declaration.

Beijing is China's capital but was not the venue. Tokyo and Seoul are capitals of Japan and South Korea, neither of which is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Answer: D

The key's answer is None of these.

The theme of India's G20 presidency and the New Delhi Summit of 2023 was Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, 'One Earth, One Family, One Future', from the Sanskrit phrase meaning 'the world is one family'.

Option B prints 'Vasundhara Kutumbakam', which is not the theme (vasundhara means the earth, while the phrase is vasudhaiva), and option C, 'One World one Future', misquotes the English motto. 'Clean Energy for a Green Future' is not the theme either. As no option states the theme correctly, 'None of these' is the answer the key accepts.

Answer: B

The 4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit was held in New Delhi.

India hosted the 4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit in New Delhi in February 2019, organised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with the World Health Organization. The partnership brings governments together to share policy on the use of digital technology in health.

Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Chennai were not the venue.

Answer: C

The 14th Agricultural Science Congress was inaugurated in New Delhi.

The congress, organised by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, was held at the NASC Complex at Pusa, New Delhi, from 20 February 2019.

Karnal, home of the National Dairy Research Institute, and Jaipur were not the venue, and since New Delhi is right, 'None of these' fails.

Answer: D

LIMA 2019 was held in Malaysia.

The Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition is a biennial defence and aerospace show held on Langkawi, an island in the Malaysian state of Kedah. The 2019 edition opened in March 2019.

Thailand, Germany and Singapore have their own defence exhibitions, but Langkawi is Malaysian territory, so the name of the expo itself points to the answer.

Answer: B

Of the options, the country that joined BRICS in its 2024 expansion is the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

On 1 January 2024, BRICS grew from five members to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE, with Saudi Arabia also invited.

Argentina had been invited but its new government declined in December 2023. Turkey has expressed interest but is not a member. Indonesia joined as a full member later, in January 2025, so it was not part of the 2024 expansion the question asks about.

Answer: D

The April 2025 BIMSTEC Summit was hosted by Thailand.

The sixth BIMSTEC Summit was held in Bangkok on 4 April 2025, with Thailand in the chair. It adopted the Bangkok Vision 2030 and a maritime transport cooperation agreement, after which Bangladesh took over the chair.

Sri Lanka hosted the fifth summit (virtually, from Colombo) in 2022 and Nepal the fourth, at Kathmandu in 2018. India did not host the April 2025 summit.

Answer: A

The 22nd National Conference on e-Governance was held at Shillong (Meghalaya).

The conference was held in Shillong on 8 and 9 August 2019, organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and the Ministry of Electronics and IT with the Government of Meghalaya. It ended with the adoption of the Shillong Declaration on e-governance.

Hyderabad and Aurangabad were not the 2019 venues. Panchkula is in Haryana, not Telangana as the option prints, and did not host it either.

Answer: D

The first World Youth Conference on Kindness was held at New Delhi.

The conference was organised in New Delhi on 23 and 24 August 2019 by UNESCO's Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, marking the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi under the theme 'Gandhi for the Contemporary World'.

It was not held in Mumbai, Allahabad or Chennai.

Answer: A

The meeting was held at Sao Paulo - Brazil.

Brazil held the BRICS chair in 2019, so the BRICS Ministers of Environment met in Sao Paulo in August 2019.

The meeting was not held in New Delhi, Beijing or Kostroma, since India, China and Russia did not hold the chair that year.

BRICS meetings each year are hosted by the member holding the rotating chair; Brazil held it in 2019, Russia in 2020 and India in 2021.