At what altitude is the Parang La Pass, crossed during the Aparajita - Parang La 2026 trek?

The correct answer is Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, who flagged the trek off from New Delhi on 18 August 2026. Option A is the main trap, because Director General NCC Lieutenant General Virendra Vats did take part in the ceremonies, but he flagged the team in at Karzok in Ladakh at the end of the expedition rather than flagging it off at the start. Option D is wrong for a similar reason: Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Dipti Mohil Chawla was present at the flag-in, not at the flag-off. Option C is wrong because the Chief of the Army Staff had no announced role in this expedition. Candidates should separate the two ceremonies clearly, the flag-off on 18 August 2026 and the flag-in on 16 September 2026.

The correct answer is Changthang. The Parang La Pass, standing at 5,578 metres, links the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh with the Changthang region of Ladakh, and the trek accordingly ran from Kibber in Himachal Pradesh to Karzok in Ladakh. Options A, C and D name other well known areas of Ladakh and the surrounding mountains, so each is a plausible guess for a candidate who remembers the pass but not the regions it joins. The route passed through glaciers, snowfields and river valleys, and the team was accompanied by officers, instructors, medical staff and support personnel. The purpose of the expedition was to encourage young women to take up adventure activities, to expose them to demanding high altitude conditions and to strengthen national integration by bringing cadets from different states together.

The correct answer is 2027. Both sides noted at the meeting that bilateral cooperation between India and Morocco is moving towards its seventieth anniversary in that year, and they agreed to expand defence ties ahead of the milestone. Option A is the year of the meeting itself, held on 8 September 2026, so an aspirant who reads the question in haste may pick it; the meeting year and the anniversary year are different facts. Option C and option D are years that simply do not appear in the announcement of the meeting, and neither matches the anniversary named there. The safe way to revise this story is to keep three years apart in the memory: the defence memorandum was signed during the Defence Minister's visit to Morocco in September 2025, the first Joint Defence Committee meeting fell in 2026, and the seventieth anniversary of cooperation arrives in 2027.

The correct answer is the Raksha Mantri. A Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation was signed when Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited Morocco in September 2025, and the Joint Defence Committee is the institutional mechanism established through that MoU. Option A, the Prime Minister, is wrong because the release ties the agreement to the Defence Minister's visit, not to a prime ministerial one. Option C, the External Affairs Minister, is a plausible distractor because the Ministry of External Affairs was represented in the Indian delegation at the meeting, yet representation at a meeting is not the same as signing the parent agreement. Option D, the Chief of Defence Staff, is wrong since such memoranda are signed at the political level rather than by a Service or tri-Service chief. The chain to remember is simple: the 2025 visit produced the MoU, and the MoU produced this committee.

The correct answer is New Delhi. The first meeting of the Joint Defence Committee between India and Morocco took place in the Indian capital on 8 September 2026, and the Moroccan delegation was in India from 7 to 10 September 2026 for the purpose. Option A, Rabat, is the capital of Morocco and therefore the most tempting wrong answer, but this sitting was hosted by India, not by Morocco. Option B, Casablanca, is Morocco's best known commercial city and has no link with this meeting. Option D, Mumbai, is wrong because the delegation's programme in India covered the National War Memorial, DPSU Bhawan and the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), all of which are in the capital. Note also that the committee itself was set up under a defence memorandum signed in Morocco in September 2025, which is a separate fact.