Exercise Samudra Laksamana: INS Mysore Reaches Lumut, Malaysia

The correct answer is Malaysia. The release states that INS Mysore arrived at Lumut, Malaysia, to take part in the fourth edition of the bilateral maritime exercise Samudra Laksamana between the Indian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Navy, and it adds that the ship and her crew were welcomed by Royal Malaysian Navy personnel and by officials from the High Commission of India in Malaysia. The wider context given in the release also points to the same country, since it recalls the twelfth India-Malaysia Sub Committee Meeting and speaks of the maritime partnership between India and Malaysia. Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand are all members of the same regional grouping and are therefore plausible-looking options, but not one of them is named anywhere in this release. Candidates should file this exercise under the India-Malaysia pair, and should be careful not to confuse the partner country simply because the wider framework mentioned is the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation.

The correct answer is fourth. The release says plainly that INS Mysore arrived at Lumut to participate in the fourth edition of the bilateral maritime exercise Samudra Laksamana held between the Indian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Navy. Edition numbers are a favourite of paper setters because they are easy to confuse, so it is worth separating the numbers that appear in this release. The exercise is in its fourth edition. The India-Malaysia Sub Committee Meeting referred to as a recent engagement was the twelfth, and it was held on 1 July 2026. The ship itself reached the Malaysian port on 9 September 2026. Options A, B and D are the editions on either side of the correct one and are exactly the kind of near-miss answers that catch a candidate who remembers the name of the exercise but not its count. Remember the pair: fourth edition, twelfth sub committee meeting.

The correct answer is Lumut. According to the release, INS Mysore arrived at Lumut, Malaysia, as part of the operational deployment of the Indian Navy, and it was there that personnel of the Royal Malaysian Navy and officials of the Indian High Commission received the ship and her crew. No other Malaysian port is named in the release, so Port Klang, Kota Kinabalu and Penang are all outside it, however familiar those names may sound. Along with the port, two other details from the same release deserve to be memorised together, because questions are often built by swapping one for another: the exercise is conducted in harbour as well as at sea and covers cross-deck visits, operational interactions and sporting engagements, and the engagement is aligned with the MAHASAGAR vision of the Government of India and with the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation 2026.