SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 10 of 100

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Which indian political leader addressed a special session in 2025 on “Environment, COP-30, and Global Health”?

(a)Piyush Goyal
(b)Hardeep Puri
(c)Narendra Modi
(d)S. Jaishankar

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the session on 'Environment, COP-30 and Global Health' at the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 7 July 2025.

India was represented at Rio by the Prime Minister himself, so of the four names offered only the head of government fits a session of a leaders' summit → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Piyush Goyal — Piyush Goyal is the Commerce and Industry Minister. This was a session of a leaders' summit, where India was represented by the Prime Minister.
(b)
Hardeep Puri — Hardeep Puri holds Petroleum and Natural Gas. The Rio session was part of the BRICS leaders' summit, and Modi addressed it.
(d)
S. Jaishankar — S. Jaishankar is the External Affairs Minister, but this was a leaders' summit session, addressed by the Prime Minister himself.

Concept

The BRICS mechanism was launched in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, and South Africa joined in 2011. Indonesia became a full member in January 2025.

Brazil held the chair in 2025 and hosted the 17th summit on 6-7 July. Its declaration records that India takes the rotating chair in 2026 and hosts the 18th summit.

COP30, the UN climate conference the session was named for, followed in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025.

The stem's special session was one of the summit's sessions, held on its second day, 7 July 2025. India was represented at Rio by the Prime Minister himself.

Key facts

The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 6-7 July 2025.
Modi addressed its session on Environment, COP-30 and Global Health on 7 July 2025.
COP30 was held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025.
India holds the BRICS chair in 2026 and hosts the 18th summit.

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Common traps

Picking the External Affairs Minister because BRICS is diplomacy: at Rio, India was represented by its Prime Minister.
Placing COP30 in Rio because the BRICS summit was there: COP30 was held in Belém.

Here a current-affairs event is tested through who spoke at it. BRICS is also asked at 12 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.7, on the host of the June 2018 BRICS foreign ministers' meeting (keyed Pretoria, South Africa).

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