The crew of INS Trishul laid a wreath at the Mazargues War Memorial for how many Indian soldiers of the World Wars?

The correct answer is France. Varuna is the annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the French Navy, and in its twenty-fourth edition the Indian warship Trishul sailed to the French port of Toulon to take part. Option A is wrong because the naval exercise India holds with the United Kingdom goes by a different name. Option C is wrong as well; the drill India conducts with Russia is a separate series and has nothing to do with Varuna. Option D is incorrect because the exercise with Japan is also a distinct series with its own name. A useful way to fix this in memory is to link the French connection with the ports and units named in this edition, Toulon as the port of call and the French ships Charles de Gaulle, Forbin and La Fayette, along with the nuclear-powered submarine Suffren that took part in the sea phase.

The correct answer is the 24th edition. The Ministry of Defence stated that INS Trishul arrived at Toulon to join the twenty-fourth edition of the exercise, which makes Varuna one of the longest-running bilateral naval exercises India takes part in. Options A and B, the 20th and 22nd editions, belong to earlier years of the same series and are the kind of near-miss figures a paper setter places to test whether the current edition has been noted carefully. Option D, the 26th, runs ahead of the present count and is therefore wrong. For the examination hall, the safest habit is to remember the edition number together with the year, so that the 24th edition is tied to 2026 and to the port of Toulon in France. Remember also that the ship arrived there on 22 September 2026 and was greeted with a ceremonial water cannon salute.

The correct answer is Mombasa, the Kenyan port where the frontline stealth frigate berthed for a goodwill call during her deployment. Option A is wrong because Dar es Salaam is the principal port of Tanzania, a neighbouring country on the same eastern African coast, which is what makes it a convincing distractor. Option B is wrong because Djibouti lies much further north, near the entrance to the Red Sea, and is not the port named in this visit. Option D is wrong because Port Victoria is the harbour of Seychelles, an island country of the western Indian Ocean. All four are ports that Indian warships visit in the course of deployments in the region, so the detail to fix in memory is the pairing of this particular ship with Mombasa in Kenya, along with the arrival date and the partner navy she engaged with there.

The correct answer is Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions. The visit of the Indian warship to the Kenyan port has been placed within the spirit of this framework, which expresses India's approach to working with friendly countries of the Indian Ocean Region on both security and development. Options A, C and D are invented expansions. They have been built from words that sound plausible in a maritime context, such as harbour, safety, alliance and oceans, and a candidate who remembers only that the name sounds like the Hindi word for ocean may fall for any of them. Examinations often test exactly this kind of acronym, so the safe approach is to learn the expansion word by word: mutual, holistic, advancement, security, growth, across regions. Only option B carries all of those elements in the right order.

The correct answer is a frontline stealth frigate. That is how the ship has been described in the announcement of her visit to the Kenyan port, and a frigate of this class is a general purpose warship built with a reduced radar signature so that it is harder to detect at sea. Option A is wrong because an aircraft carrier is a far larger capital ship whose role is to operate fighter aircraft from its deck, and no carrier was involved in this visit. Option C is wrong because a submarine is an undersea platform and the ship in question is a surface combatant making a formal harbour call with ceremonial and community programmes. Option D is wrong because a survey vessel is a specialised ship for hydrographic charting rather than a frontline fighting unit. Only option B matches the description.