The CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR-NGRI) is located in which city?

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Correct — A, Hyderabad. CSIR-NGRI is a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, established in 1961 and located on Uppal Road, Hyderabad. It is India's principal geophysics laboratory, working on the structure of the Earth's interior, earthquake hazard and seismology, groundwater exploration and management, and geophysical exploration for minerals and hydrocarbons.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Bengaluru hosts other major science institutions — CSIR's National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL) and the Indian Institute of Science among them — but not NGRI.  (c) The tempting trap: CSIR's own headquarters is in New Delhi (as is CSIR-NPL, the National Physical Laboratory), but its geophysics lab sits in Hyderabad.  (d) Kolkata is the headquarters of the Geological Survey of India and home to CSIR-CGCRI — earth-science-sounding but different organisations from NGRI.

Concept: CSIR, set up in 1942 with its headquarters in New Delhi, runs a nationwide network of about 37 laboratories, each named for its discipline rather than its city — which is exactly why exams test the lab-to-city mapping. NGRI is the geophysics node of that network: it studies the Earth from the surface downwards using seismic, gravity, magnetic and electrical methods, supporting earthquake hazard assessment, groundwater location and mineral and hydrocarbon exploration.

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