Mt Kamet, climbed by the joint Indo-Argentine Army expedition, is the highest peak in India after which two mountains?

The correct answer is Lieutenant Colonel Chirag Chatterjee. He headed the party of 35 climbers, of whom 25 belonged to the Indian Army and 10 to the Argentine Army, and the group was flagged off from the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi on 21 August 2026. Option A is a tempting trap: General Dhiraj Seth is the Chief of the Army Staff and he flagged the team in on its return, but he did not lead the climb itself, and examinations often test precisely that difference between the officer who sends off or receives a team and the officer who commands it. Options C and D name officers who have no part in this expedition and are offered only as plausible-sounding distractors. Along with the leader, remember the split of the team between the two armies and the date on which it set out.

The correct answer is the third. The two armies first climbed together on Mt Aconcagua at 6,962 metres in Mendoza, Argentina, in January 2025, then on Mt Kun at 7,077 metres in the Suru valley of Ladakh in August 2025, and the Uttarakhand outing of this year was therefore the third in the series. Options A and B are wrong because they ignore the two earlier ventures that the Ministry of Defence lists by name, peak and month. Option D is wrong because no fourth or fifth joint climb has taken place; the series has run to three. A useful way to hold this is by the pattern of the venues, one in the Andes of Argentina followed by two in the Indian Himalaya, first in Ladakh and then in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.

The correct answer is Bhubaneswar. The board meeting is convened by the Indian Coast Guard under the chairmanship of its Director General, Paramesh Sivamani, and takes up national preparedness for rescue at sea, the management of distress alerts and faster movement of rescue assets through technology and coordination between agencies. Option A is the trap: Paradip is where the exercise and the demonstration at sea take place, but the board sits in the state capital, not at the port. Option C is wrong because Visakhapatnam, although a major maritime centre, has no part in this event. Option D is wrong for the same reason. Remember the pairing: Paradip for the drill, Bhubaneswar for the board, both in Odisha, and the whole effort framed by the SAGAR vision.

The correct answer is 32 observers from 30 countries. The number of observers is slightly larger than the number of countries because some nations have sent more than one representative, and the Ministry of Defence treats this international presence as a highlight of the drill, since it points to shared rescue protocols and the ability of different navies and coast guards to work to a single plan. Option B is wrong because it swaps the two figures, the commonest trap in a question of this shape. Option C and option D are wrong because neither pair of numbers was announced; the figures in option D in fact echo other details of the exercise, such as the count of Coast Guard ships taking part, and are offered to mislead a hurried reader.

The correct answer is 12th. The exercise is being held off the Paradip coast of Odisha and is inaugurated by the Minister of State for Defence, with the search and rescue demonstration at sea following a day later. Options A and B are wrong because they name earlier editions of the same series, and an aspirant who remembers only that the drill is held in the eleventh or twelfth year of the series will lose the mark; the edition number is the fact being tested. Option D is wrong because the series has not reached that number. Note that two different edition numbers appear in this news item and should not be mixed up: the exercise itself is the twelfth, while the National Maritime Search and Rescue Board meeting that is held alongside it at Bhubaneswar is the twenty-fourth.