Bart De Wever, who was on an official visit to India from 2 to 4 September 2026, is the Prime Minister of which country?

The correct answer is 1947. The two leaders noted that Belgium was among the first European countries to establish diplomatic ties with India, and the statement fixes that year as 1947. The arithmetic that follows is the reason the year matters for an examination: the 80th anniversary of the relationship will therefore be marked in 2027, and the statement itself describes that year as another historic occasion for the two countries. Option B, 1950, is the year India became a republic and is an easy trap for a candidate who remembers the Constitution rather than this bilateral fact. Options C and D, 1962 and 1971, are years of conflict in Indian history and appear nowhere in the release. Candidates should also recall the older link the leaders spoke of, the sacrifice of more than 9,000 Indian soldiers in the Flanders Fields during the First World War.

The correct answer is 2028-29. The joint statement sets out a straight exchange of support: India will contest a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the 2028-29 term, and Belgium for the 2037-2038 term, with each backing the other. Option D is therefore the term Belgium will contest, not India, and it is the distractor most candidates fall for because both figures appear in the same sentence of the release. Options A and C are not mentioned anywhere. The passage carries a second point that is frequently asked alongside this one: Belgium reaffirmed its support for India's candidature for permanent membership of a reformed and expanded Security Council, and both sides stressed that the Council must be reformed so that it represents the world as it is today, with the United Nations Charter at the centre of multilateral order.

The correct answer is the India-Belgium Civil Nuclear Liability Treaty, which does not exist in this release. The joint statement lists what was actually concluded. A Letter of Intent was signed between the Defence Ministries of the two countries, giving a framework for staff talks, training, education, research and defence-industrial partnerships, and building on an understanding the two Defence Ministers reached in March 2025. An MoU was signed between India's Central Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Police of Belgium on transnational organised crime, cybercrime and the tracing of fugitives. The India-Belgium Investment Fast-Track Mechanism was launched to clear bottlenecks facing investors in both directions. A renewed MoU on renewable energy cooperation was also welcomed. Nuclear energy is mentioned only as an area of expanding economic interest, never as a treaty, so option C is the odd one out.

The correct answer is CNES, the space agency of France. The release recalls that India and France have shared a close space partnership spanning nearly six decades, and that cooperation between ISRO and CNES has included the joint satellite missions Megha-Tropiques and SARAL. It adds that the two sides are pursuing further cooperation in Earth observation and in climate-related applications, which is the natural line of work for both of those missions. Option A, NASA, is the agency of the United States and partners ISRO on other projects, but it is not the partner named here. Option B, JAXA, is the Japanese agency and again is not mentioned in this release. Option D, Roscosmos, is the Russian agency and has no role in these two missions. The safest way to hold this is to link the country, the agency and the missions together: France, CNES, Megha-Tropiques and SARAL. The same meeting also settled that Prof Philippe Baptiste would visit India from 28 to 30 September 2026.

The correct answer is Paris. The release states that the virtual bilateral meeting between Dr Jitendra Singh and Prof Philippe Baptiste took place ahead of the International Space Summit, which is scheduled in Paris on 9 and 10 September 2026. The same meeting also covered the Bengaluru Space Expo, scheduled from 7 to 9 September 2026, so the two events sit only days apart and are easy to confuse. Option A, Vienna, hosts the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, which makes it a natural but wrong guess for a space meeting. Option C, Toulouse, is closely associated with the French aerospace industry and is therefore the most tempting distractor of the four, but the Summit named in this release is not held there. Option D, Geneva, is the seat of the International Telecommunication Union, whose regulatory framework for frequency management India supported at this meeting, so the city appears indirectly but is not the venue. Remember the pairing: Summit in Paris, Expo in Bengaluru.