Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List – I (Padmavibhushan Fields 2025)
A. Trade and Industry
B. Literature and Education
C. Medicine
D.

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Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List – I (Padmavibhushan Fields 2025)
A. Trade and Industry
B. Literature and Education
C. Medicine
D. Art
List – II (Awardee 2025)
1. Shri Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
2. Shri Osamu Suzuki
3. Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair
4. Shri D. Nageshwar Reddy
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Correct — C, A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1. Take the four Padma Vibhushan citations of 2025 one at a time. A, Trade and Industry, goes to 2, Osamu Suzuki — the long-serving head of Suzuki Motor Corporation, whose decision to enter India created Maruti Udyog; his was a posthumous award, as he had died on 25 December 2024. B, Literature and Education, goes to 3, M. T. Vasudevan Nair — the Malayalam novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, a Jnanpith laureate, whose award was also posthumous after his death on 25 December 2024. C, Medicine, goes to 4, Dr. D. Nageshwar Reddy — the Hyderabad gastroenterologist of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, who had already held the Padma Shri (2002) and the Padma Bhushan (2016). D, Art, goes to 1, Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam — the violinist who works across Carnatic and Western classical music. That mapping is A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1, which is option (c).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Every pair here is inverted. It makes the writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair an awardee in Trade and Industry and the industrialist Osamu Suzuki an awardee in Literature and Education, and it likewise swaps the violinist L. Subramaniam into Medicine and the gastroenterologist D. Nageshwar Reddy into Art. Not one of the four is correctly placed.  (b) The first half is right — Osamu Suzuki in Trade and Industry, M. T. Vasudevan Nair in Literature and Education — but the second half is reversed. It puts L. Subramaniam, a musician, under Medicine and Dr. D. Nageshwar Reddy, a physician, under Art. This is the option that catches a candidate who identifies the two posthumous awardees confidently and then guesses the remaining pair.  (d) The mirror image of the previous trap. Medicine to Nageshwar Reddy and Art to L. Subramaniam are correct, but the top two are exchanged, so the Malayalam writer is credited with Trade and Industry and the Japanese industrialist with Literature and Education.

Concept: The Padma awards are India's civilian honours, announced every year on the eve of Republic Day and conferred by the President at investiture ceremonies at Rashtrapati Bhavan. They come in three grades — Padma Vibhushan for exceptional and distinguished service, Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of a high order, and Padma Shri for distinguished service — and every award carries a named field such as Art, Literature and Education, Medicine, Public Affairs, Science and Engineering, Trade and Industry, Social Work, Civil Service or Sports. The 2025 list was announced on 25 January 2025 and contained 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awards.

State PCS 2025 Q102 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2025 Q102 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer