Which of the following is NOT correctly matched?

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Correct — C. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is actually located at Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, not Mumbai — making this the incorrectly matched pair. The other three pairs are correctly matched: ARIES is at Nainital, the College of Defence Management is at Secunderabad, and IISc is at Bengaluru.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This pair is correctly matched — ARIES, an autonomous astronomy/astrophysics institute under the Department of Science & Technology, is indeed located at Nainital, Uttarakhand.  (b) This pair is correctly matched — the CDM, which trains senior armed-forces officers in management, is located at Secunderabad, Telangana.  (d) This pair is correctly matched — IISc, India's premier research university, is located at Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Concept: 'Not correctly matched' institute-location questions test whether you know each institute's actual host city, not just that it is a real, respected institute — the trap is usually one institute quietly assigned to a plausible but wrong city (here, CIIL to Mumbai instead of its real home, Mysuru).

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