Summits and Conferences Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The forum was hosted in New Delhi.

India hosted the fourth edition of the SCO Startup Forum in New Delhi in March 2024, organised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, as part of its work on startups and innovation within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam (spelt in the paper as Banglore and Vishakhapattnam) are startup and industrial centres but were not the venue.

Answer: A

The third meeting of the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group under India's presidency was held in Goa on 6 and 7 June 2023, according to the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India. The earlier meetings were in Chandigarh and Paris, and the finance ministers met later at Gandhinagar in Gujarat in July, which is why Gujarat is a tempting but wrong option. Maharashtra and Karnataka did not host this meeting. The answer is Goa, option A.

Answer: A

The Indian Mobile Congress 2022 was held in New Delhi. It was at this event, on 1 October 2022, that the Prime Minister launched 5G services in India, which is why it is remembered as a national occasion. Bengaluru, Mysuru and Mumbai were among the cities that received 5G early, but none of them hosted the 2022 Congress, so they are the wrong choices for the venue of the event. The event is organised by the Department of Telecommunications together with the Cellular Operators Association of India.

Answer: D

The theme was Voyage to New Horizons of maritime partnership.

The 8th Indian Ocean Conference was held in Muscat, Oman, on 16-17 February 2025. It was organised by the India Foundation with Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and attended by India's External Affairs Minister. Its theme looked at new forms of cooperation among Indian Ocean countries.

The other phrases are general maritime topics that the conference may discuss, but none of them was its official theme.

Answer: B

COP30 was held in Brazil.

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at Belem, in the Amazon region of Brazil, in November 2025.

Britain hosted COP26 at Glasgow in 2021, and India and the USA did not host COP30.

COP stands for Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; the meetings rotate between the UN regions, and COP29 had been held at Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2024.

Answer: B

India launched the alliance with France.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande jointly launched the International Solar Alliance on 30 November 2015 at the COP21 climate conference in Paris. The alliance promotes solar energy in sun-rich countries and is headquartered in Gurugram, India.

The United Kingdom, the United States and Germany later joined or supported the alliance, but they were not co-founders.

Answer: B

The host of the 18th G-20 Summit is India.

India held the G-20 presidency from December 2022 and hosted the 18th summit in New Delhi in September 2023, which adopted the New Delhi Leaders' Declaration.

Italy hosted the 16th summit in Rome in 2021 (and Rome is a city, not a country), Indonesia hosted the 17th in Bali in 2022, and Britain last hosted in London in 2009.

The G-20 presidency rotates each year among the member countries, and the presidency country hosts the summit; India's presidency ran from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2023.

Answer: B

The G20 Summit in 2025 was hosted by South Africa.

South Africa took over the G20 presidency from Brazil in December 2024, making it the first African country to hold the presidency, and hosted the leaders' summit in Johannesburg in November 2025. India held the presidency in 2023 and Brazil in 2024.

Saudi Arabia hosted in 2020, China in 2016 and Mexico in 2012, so none of them hosted in 2025.