Defence Current Affairs Quiz: 11 October 2026

The correct answer is INS Trishul. The Ministry of Defence stated that the guided missile stealth frigate INS Trishul had reached Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where it is scheduled to exercise with the Royal Navy in KONKAN-26. The frigate is therefore the Indian unit named for this deployment, and it is the ship that will be opened to visitors during the harbour stage of the exercise at Plymouth. Option A, INS Tabar, is wrong because no such ship figures in this deployment; the only Indian warship identified for KONKAN-26 is INS Trishul. Option C, INS Teg, is wrong for the same reason, as the announcement names a single frigate and that frigate is Trishul. Option D, INS Talwar, is also wrong: although the name is close to that of the ship actually deployed, the vessel sent to the United Kingdom for this edition of the exercise is INS Trishul and no other.

The correct answer is Russia. INDRA is the bilateral exercise between India and Russia, and in this edition the Indian Navy works with the Russian Federation Navy. The Indian warship Sahyadri has arrived at Vladivostok, a port on the Russian Far East coast, for the drill. Option A, Japan, is wrong because the India-Japan naval exercise is a separate series and Japan has no role in this deployment; the release names only the Russian Federation Navy as the partner. Option C, Indonesia, is wrong for the same reason, and India-Indonesia naval activity is conducted under its own arrangements rather than under the INDRA name. Option D, Oman, is also wrong, since no West Asian navy is involved here and the host port named for the exercise is Vladivostok in Russia, not an Omani port. Candidates should link the exercise name directly to the partner country, as questions on exercises are usually set in that match-the-pair form.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. Special Campaign 6.0 is a nationwide drive of the Government of India run through that month, with the twin purposes of making Swachhata a permanent feature of government working and of cutting the backlog of pending matters in government processes. The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare confirmed that it and its attached and subordinate offices are carrying out targeted activities across the window, with a focus on workplace efficiency and a cleaner, more sustainable office environment. Option A, a September window, and option C, which spans the independence day to teachers' day period, do not match the dates announced. Option D places the campaign in December, which is also wrong. The start on the second of October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, is the detail worth remembering, since cleanliness drives in India are traditionally anchored to that date.

The correct answer is the United Kingdom. KONKAN is described as the yearly bilateral maritime exercise between India and the United Kingdom, held with the Royal Navy, and the current edition is being conducted in the waters off Plymouth on the British coast in a harbour phase and a sea phase. The exercise has grown in scale and in complexity over the past two decades and is treated as a cornerstone of cooperation between the two fleets, sitting within the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that the two countries set out in the India-UK Vision 2035 document. Option A, France, is wrong because the partner navy for KONKAN is the Royal Navy and not the French Navy. Option B, Australia, is wrong because no Australian participation is part of this exercise. Option D, the United States of America, is wrong as well: the announcement names only the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom as the participating foreign navy.

The correct answer is Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions. The Ministry of Defence says the participation of INS Sahyadri in the exercise is in keeping with this vision of the Government of India, which frames security and growth as goals to be pursued together across maritime regions rather than separately. Option A is wrong because the expansion offered there turns the word into a shipping corridor scheme, and no such reading appears in the announcement. Option C is wrong because it introduces an alliance of harbours, whereas the vision named in the release is about mutual and holistic advancement and does not describe any alliance. Option D is wrong because it mixes in agriculture and rural reform, subjects that have nothing to do with the naval deployment or with the vision cited by the Ministry. Full forms of this kind are frequently asked, so the exact expansion is worth memorising.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Defence. The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, abbreviated DESW, is a department of that ministry and is responsible for the welfare of former service personnel and their families, which is why the faster disposal of grievances and Parliamentary assurances under the campaign matters to veterans and pensioners. Option A, the Ministry of Home Affairs, handles internal security and the central armed police forces, not ex-servicemen welfare. Option C, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, works on welfare for socially disadvantaged groups. Option D, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, deals with civil service administration and the pensions of civilian government employees, and although it is closely associated with pendency reduction drives in general, the department named in this instance is squarely under Defence.

The correct answer is air, surface and sub-surface. The Sea Phase of the exercise is built around complex operational drills in all three of these domains. The serials planned for it include helicopter landings from one ship’s deck to the other, gunnery firings, air defence exercises, demanding ship-handling evolutions and anti-submarine warfare practice, which is precisely why the air, the surface and the waters below the surface are all covered. The Harbour Phase, by contrast, is given over to professional interactions, cross-deck visits, sports fixtures, cultural engagements and opening the ship to visitors. Option B is wrong because land and cyber operations do not form part of this naval exercise. Option C is wrong because space and cyber are not among the domains listed for the sea serials. Option D is wrong for both reasons: neither land nor space figures in the three domains described for the Sea Phase of KONKAN-26.

The correct answer is Vladivostok. The Ministry of Defence stated that the Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri reached Vladivostok on 10 October 2026 to take part in the exercise, which has been scheduled from 13 to 18 October 2026 and begins with a harbour phase at that port before moving to coordinated activity at sea. Option A, St. Petersburg, is wrong because that city lies on the Baltic side of Russia and is not the port named for this deployment. Option B, Murmansk, is wrong because it is an Arctic port in the far north and does not figure in the announcement at all. Option D, Sevastopol, is wrong because it is a Black Sea port and again is nowhere mentioned; the exercise is being hosted on the Pacific seaboard of Russia. Remember the port along with the exercise name, since papers often ask where an Indian warship was deployed.

The correct answer is 'Waste to Wealth'. In its campaign work the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare has made electronic waste a priority area, collecting it, segregating it scientifically and disposing of it responsibly in keeping with the E-Waste (Management) Rules, and it frames that effort through the Waste to Wealth idea of turning discarded material into something useful. Option B, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, is a familiar general principle of waste handling but is not the phrase used for this initiative. Option C, a Zero Landfill Mission, and option D, Clean to Green, are invented labels that sound plausible but were not part of the department's stated approach. Candidates should pair the term with the rules cited for e-waste handling, since questions on such campaigns usually test the exact phrase along with the legal instrument behind it.

The correct answer is India-UK Vision 2035. The exercise is presented as a reaffirmation of the shared commitment of the two countries to secure, open and free seas, and the Ministry of Defence places that commitment within the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that the two sides set out in the India-UK Vision 2035 document. The naval exercise is thus the operational face of a political understanding: the two fleets practise together so that they can work smoothly alongside each other in complicated situations at sea. Option A is wrong because the partnership referred to here is framed by the Vision document for the year 2035 and not for 2030. Option C is wrong because the understanding cited is a vision statement covering the whole partnership rather than a maritime roadmap. Option D is wrong because the figure attached to the India-UK vision in this context is 2035, not 2047.