By which year did Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal call for doubling India-UK bilateral trade?

The correct answer is in the United Kingdom in 2027. The joint statement of the 16th meeting records the decision that the next session of the Joint Economic and Trade Committee will be hosted by the British side in that year. Option A is wrong because India hosted this meeting in New Delhi, and the two countries alternate as hosts. Option C has the right country but the wrong year, and option D is wrong on both counts. Candidates should also note that the 16th meeting was the first JETCO since negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement began in January 2022, that it was co-chaired by Piyush Goyal and Jonathan Reynolds, and that the two sides agreed to exchange data every year on how businesses are using the agreement, starting a year after it entered into force.

The correct answer is GIFT City, Gandhinagar, in Gujarat. Financial services were the fourth of the five priority areas the Commerce and Industry Minister listed, and under it he sought greater collaboration between the City of London and GIFT City, naming fintech, insurance, cross-border payments, transition finance and trade finance as fields of work, so that the two financial centres become a connected pathway to prosperity. Options A, C and D are important business districts in India but none of them was named in this proposal, and none is an international financial services centre of the kind the Minister was pairing with London. The other four priority areas were infrastructure and clean energy, advanced manufacturing and resilient supply chains, technology and innovation, and healthcare and consumer sectors.

The correct answer is Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh. The Ministry of Defence recalls that the Greek Minister of National Defence came to India in February 2026 and held talks with the Raksha Mantri, and it treats such high-level exchanges as evidence of a growing India-Greece partnership in the defence and strategic domains. The Defence Secretary's own interaction in Greece, during the second leg of his tour from 12 to 15 October 2026, follows from that engagement and will be with the senior defence and military leadership of the country. Option B names the Chief of Defence Staff, option D the Chief of the Naval Staff, and option C the External Affairs Minister; none of them is named as the host of those February talks. Remember that the Indian counterpart of a visiting Defence Minister is the Raksha Mantri.

The correct answer is Cyprus and Greece. The Ministry of Defence has said that the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, will undertake an official visit to these two countries from 12 to 15 October 2026, with the Cyprus leg falling on 12 and 13 October and Greece forming the second half of the tour. In Cyprus he is to meet counterparts in the Cypriot Ministry of Defence and call on the leadership, while in Greece he will interact with the senior defence and military leadership. Options B, C and D each pair one correct country with one that does not appear in the announcement, or name countries that are not part of it at all. Candidates should note that both countries on the itinerary are members of the European Union, which is what links the visit to the India-EU Security and Defence Partnership.

The correct answer is maritime security and defence industrial cooperation. The announcement states that these two subjects will remain prominent themes in the discussions with both countries. Maritime security matters because Cyprus and Greece sit on the shipping routes of the eastern Mediterranean, and the ministry says the Cyprus engagement is expected to deepen bilateral work particularly in the maritime domain. Defence industrial cooperation covers joint work in making and supplying military equipment, an area India has been opening to foreign partners. Option A shifts the subject to space cooperation, which the announcement does not mention. Option C names law-enforcement subjects that belong to a different kind of agreement. Option D lists tourism and education, which are not what a Defence Secretary's visit is built around. The two correct themes should be remembered as a pair.