The joint venture will operate and expand which facility?

The correct answer is 50:50. The release says both Drydocks World and Cochin Shipyard will each hold half of the joint venture, with the initial capital funded through equity contributions from both parties, and it describes the arrangement as a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership in India's ship repair sector. Options A, C and D are all wrong because no unequal split of any kind is mentioned; the equal holding is in fact the point the release stresses, since it makes both partners equally responsible for the facility at Cochin. Candidates often assume a majority stake for the Indian public sector partner in such ventures, which is exactly the assumption this question tests. Note as well that the venture will operate, consolidate and expand the International Ship Repair Facility rather than build a new yard from scratch.

The correct answer is DP World. The release introduces Drydocks World as a DP World company in its opening line and records that its Chief Executive Officer, Captain Rado Antolovic, signed the joint venture agreement with Cochin Shipyard. The presence of the UAE Assistant Foreign Minister for Advanced Science and Technology at the signing, and the Minister's remarks about the maritime relationship between India and the UAE, both point to the same Emirati connection. Options B, C and D are wrong because none of those groups appears anywhere in the account of the agreement, although each is a well known name in ports and shipping and so makes a plausible distractor. Fix in memory the triad of names for this story: Cochin Shipyard, Drydocks World and the parent DP World.

The correct answer is 86. During August 2026 fourteen Amrit Bharat services were converted from special trains into regular trains, and that conversion took the total number of Amrit Bharat services to this figure. The services connect Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and other important regions of the country. Among the routes named are Subedarganj to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Gorakhpur to Bandra Terminus, Gorakhpur to Delhi Junction, Ahmedabad to Bhagalpur, Prayagraj Junction to Udhna Junction and Dhanbad to Coimbatore. The Ahmedabad to Bhagalpur link joins Gujarat with Bihar, while the Dhanbad to Coimbatore service links eastern India with southern India. Options A, B and D give totals that the release does not support. Remember the count of services added and the running total together.

The correct answer is 149. Five new Gati Shakti Cargo Terminals were commissioned during August 2026, which took the cumulative count to this figure at the end of the month. The five new terminals are at Shivlakha in Gujarat, Nalli in Tamil Nadu, Shaktinagar in Uttar Pradesh, Deoragram in Madhya Pradesh and Brajrajnagar in Odisha. These terminals bring freight handling closer to production and consumption centres, improve last-mile connectivity for industry and speed up the evacuation of goods from industrial locations. Option A and option D are close but wrong counts, and option B repeats the number of Rakshabandhan special trips run between 25 and 31 August 2026. Figures from the same release are often used as distractors in this way, so tie each number firmly to the thing it measures.

The correct answer is 137.9 million tonnes. Indian Railways loaded that quantity during August 2026 and recorded a year-on-year growth of 5.4 per cent. Freight revenue in the same month rose by 6.27 per cent over the corresponding month of the previous year, which shows that the freight business strengthened in value as well as in volume. The loading was driven by demand from coal, iron ore, steel, fertilizers and other commodity groups. Option A, 130.9 million tonnes, is the figure for August 2025 and is therefore the base year figure rather than the answer. Option C and option D carry tonnages that do not appear in the release at all. Questions of this type usually place the current year figure and the base year figure side by side, so learn both numbers and keep them in the right order.