What was the value of India's defence exports in 2025-26?

The correct answer is 2029. After the earlier goal of Rs 30,000 crore in annual defence exports was met in the previous year, the government fixed a higher goal of Rs 50,000 crore to be reached by 2029. The rest of the options are years that sound plausible but carry no such commitment. Option A, 2027, is the financial year in which the current defence allocation of Rs 7.85 lakh crore has been provided, so it is easy to confuse with the export deadline. Option C and option D, 2030 and 2035, are round years often attached to other national missions and are wrong here. The reason the target is considered reachable is the demand abroad for Indian missiles, radars, ammunition and platforms, which the Minister said reflects confidence in Indian technology, quality and delivery.

The correct answer is Rs 7.85 lakh crore, the defence allocation for 2026-27. The comparison the Minister drew is the part worth memorising: the same allocation stood at around Rs 2.53 lakh crore in 2013-14, which makes option A a real figure but from the wrong year, and therefore the most attractive distractor in the set. Options B and C, Rs 5.94 lakh crore and Rs 6.81 lakh crore, are invented amounts. One more figure belongs with this answer. About 75 per cent of the capital acquisition budget, which works out to Rs 1.39 lakh crore, has been earmarked for purchases from Indian defence industry, so that spending strengthens domestic manufacturing and the MSME supply chains attached to it rather than flowing abroad.

The correct answer is option A. The decision announced was that technologies for conventional missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation will be handed over to eligible Indian industries, so that qualifying private companies can manufacture them. The purpose is twofold: the armed forces get their missiles delivered on time, and DRDO is freed to concentrate on research and development while industry takes up the production load. Option B reverses the intent, because the move takes production outward to industry rather than concentrating it inside government establishments. Option C contradicts the whole thrust of the speech, which was self-reliance and the country's shift from importer to exporter. Option D is the opposite of the announcement, since private participation is being widened, not restricted; the ecosystem already includes startups and more than 16,000 MSMEs.

The correct answer is Brigadier Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Head of Ophthalmology at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), Delhi Cantonment, whose team carried advanced phacoemulsification, vitreoretinal and glaucoma equipment across mountainous terrain to reach Tangdhar. Option A is wrong because Air Marshal Sandeep Thareja is the Director General of the Armed Forces Medical Services; he visited the camp and appreciated the surgeons and the local team, but did not lead the surgical team. Option B is wrong because General Dhiraj Seth is the Chief of the Army Staff, who visited the camp, interacted with patients and distributed medicines and gifts. Option D is wrong because Manoj Sinha is the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, who is to attend the closing ceremony of the next camp. Distinguishing these four roles is the whole point of the question.

The correct answer is Kupwara. Tangdhar lies in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a shelling-prone area close to the Line of Control, and the camp there had to be run from an underground operation theatre for that reason. Options A, C and D name other districts of the union territory that also lie near the Line of Control, which is exactly why they work as distractors, but the camp described here was not held in any of them. Patients came from Khawarpora, Tangdar, Tadd, Bagbela, Yangdar and neighbouring hamlets after screening and after the camp was announced on Radio Rooh-e-Karnah, with the Indian Army guiding each patient from arrival to recovery. Remember also that the next camp in the series moves to Srinagar.