NDA Current Affairs Quiz: 17 October 2026

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, inaugurated residential, medical and utility works there under Phase IIA.

He spoke at the programme held at a college in Kutiyana, in his own district, and called on young people to take the lead in nation-building and in the march towards a developed India.

Port Victoria is the port where the ships of the First Training Squadron stayed during their training deployment, arriving on the twelfth of October and sailing out on the fifteenth.

KONKAN is the bilateral maritime exercise held between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy, and the edition named KONKAN-26 concluded off Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

The Station Health Organisation complex inaugurated under Phase IIA augments the existing naval hospital INHS Patanjali to that capacity, so that the growing population of the base can be treated on site.

The Minister said that efforts were under way, under the guidance of the Prime Minister, to develop one lakh young leaders across the country, and he placed the MY Bharat portal at the centre of that effort as the route through which the young can find openings for participation, career…

These three were the ships named by the Ministry of Defence as the vessels of the First Training Squadron that stayed at Port Victoria and then sailed out on completion of the visit.

The Indian Navy was represented in KONKAN-26 by the stealth frigate INS Trishul, which exercised with HMS Sutherland of the Royal Navy off Plymouth.

The correct answer is Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, who opened the residential accommodation for defence civilians, the Station Health Organisation, and the trunk utility and access works.

The five pledges, together called Panch Pran, were articulated by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort, and the Minister recalled them at this programme: the resolve to build a developed India, freedom from the colonial mindset, pride in the heritage of the country, unity and solidarity…

The Ministry of Defence used this expansion while describing the purpose behind the training deployment, under which the Indian Navy builds capacity in partner countries and strengthens regional partnerships in the Indian Ocean.

KONKAN-26 ended in the waters off Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where the Royal Navy’s Fleet Operational Standards and Training organisation put the participating ships through their serials.

The project conforms to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and to the standards of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.

HMS Sutherland, the ship the Royal Navy deployed for KONKAN-26, is described as a Duke-class anti-submarine warfare frigate, and anti-submarine warfare was indeed one of the areas the two navies practised during the sea phase.