In which bag sizes will Bharat Rice be procured to ease handling at forward posts?

The correct answer is the Food Corporation of India. The MoU signed alongside the launch of Bharat Rice gives the Army a formal framework to use identified FCI warehouses, labour resources and material-handling equipment when operations require them, and it holds for five years with the option of extension by mutual consent. Option A, NAFED, does appear in the story, but its role is to supply the rice itself during the financial year 2026-27, not to lend warehousing. Option C, the Border Roads Organisation, was mentioned only as an example of dual use, since roads and bridges it builds are also used by local residents. Option D, the Central Warehousing Corporation, does not figure in the arrangement at all. The Defence Minister described the FCI agreement as a force multiplier for operational preparedness.

The correct answer is NAFED, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited, which will supply the rice during the financial year 2026-27 after it is milled to prescribed defence specifications and cleared by quality-control checks. Option A, the Food Corporation of India, is the partner for the separate logistics MoU on warehousing and material handling, so it has a different role in the same announcement. Option C, an Army Purchase Organisation, is not named in the arrangement. Option D, state civil supplies corporations, also do not feature; in fact the change is that the rice moves directly to Army Supply Depots instead of depots drawing it from nearby facilities. The initiative is led by the Directorate General of Supplies and Transport and followed nearly 18 months of coordination.

The correct answer is Air Marshal Stephen Chappell, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, who chaired the second session. That session treated air power as an instrument of national power and covered deterrence, coercion, escalation control and human capital development. Option A, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, is the Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, and his role at the seminar was the inaugural address. Option B, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, a former Chief of the Air Staff, chaired the first working session, which dealt with the transformation of air warfare in the 21st century and the shift from air superiority to battlespace control. Option C, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, is the Director General of CAPSS and gave the welcome address.

The correct answer is 2001. CAPSS was set up in that year as an autonomous research and analysis body working on national security, nuclear and aerospace questions, which is why the year 2026 marks its Silver Jubilee. A silver jubilee falls twenty-five years after founding, so the arithmetic itself rules out the other three options. Option A would make the body thirty-five years old in 2026, option C would make it fifteen, and option D only five, none of which fits a silver jubilee. Its Director General, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (Retd.), delivered the welcome address at the seminar and spoke about the role of air power in contemporary conflicts and the part CAPSS plays in developing thinking on it.

The correct answer is Exercise Tarang Shakti-26. The seminar was held on 9 October 2026 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi, while this multinational flying exercise was under way, so the participating teams moved from flying sorties to a conceptual discussion on doctrine. The other three options name air exercises that are familiar in general studies but were not the setting for this seminar. The point of holding the seminar alongside the exercise was to carry fresh operational experience into debate: the theme was the central role of air power in the evolving battlespace, and representatives of partner air forces from every continent attended along with senior officers, academics, industry and the media. The organisers were the Centre for Aerospace Power and Strategic Studies and the Indian Air Force.