The 104^th Indian Science Congress was held at

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The correct answer is Tirupati.

The 104th Indian Science Congress was held at Tirupati.
- The 104th Indian Science Congress (ISC) has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 3, 2017, at the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
- The focal theme of the 5-day annual ISC is Science and Technology for National Development.
- Indian Science Congress Association(ISCA) is a premier scientific organization of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.
- The association started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week of January. It has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists.

Key Points

The first Indian Science Congress was held in 1914 at the Asiatic Society in Calcutta.
- Honorable justice Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta presided over the Congress.
The Science Congress celebrated its Golden Jubilee in October 1963 at Delhi with Prof.D. S. Kothari as General president.
The Diamond Jubilee Session of the Science Congress was held at Chandigarh from 3 to 9 January 1973, under the presidency of Dr.S.Bhagavantam.

Additional Information

City	Details
Chennai	Chennai, on the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu. The city is home to Fort St. George, built-in 1644 and now a museum showcasing the city’s roots as a British military garrison and East India Company trading outpost, when it was called Madras.
Tirupati	Tirupati is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its Sri Venkateswara Temple sits atop one of the 7 peaks of Tirumala Hills, attracting scores of Hindu pilgrims.
Mysore	Mysore, a city in India's southwestern Karnataka state, was the capital of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947. In its center is opulent Mysore Palace, the seat of the former ruling Wodeyar dynasty.
Kolkata	Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is the capital of India's West Bengal state. Founded as an East India Company trading post, it was India's capital under the British Raj from 1773 to 1911.