Where was the first International Space Summit, addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held?

The correct answer is 2035. While outlining the road map for the country, the Prime Minister announced plans to establish an indigenous space station by 2035 and to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2040. These are the only two forward-looking dates given in the release, and the earlier of the two belongs to the space station. Option C, 2040, is a very tempting distractor because that year does appear in the release, but it is attached to the crewed lunar mission and not to the station, so a candidate who mixes up the two loses the mark. Option A, 2030, does not appear in the release at all and has simply been placed there because it looks like a plausible round-number goal. Option D, 2045, is likewise absent from the account of the address. The safest way to hold this pair in memory is as a sequence: the station comes first, the Moon landing follows five years later.

The correct answer is Chandrayaan-3. Recalling the landmarks of the Indian space programme, the Prime Minister said that Chandrayaan-3 made India the first nation to land near the lunar south pole, and he presented that touchdown as a benchmark for the world. Option A, Chandrayaan-2, is not credited with this achievement anywhere in the release, and the only lunar mission it names in this context is the third one, so the answer cannot be shifted to the earlier mission. Option C, Aditya-L1, is named in the same passage but for an entirely different purpose: it is described as unlocking the secrets of the Sun, which makes it a solar observation mission rather than a lunar one. Option D, Gaganyaan, does not appear in the release at all; what the address does mention is that an Indian astronaut visited the International Space Station in the previous year, which is a separate fact and not a mission name.

The correct answer is that the summit adopted the Bishkek Declaration along with four MoUs. Besides the declaration and the four memoranda, the meeting also adopted more than twenty decisions and statements in fields such as climate, nuclear safety, energy conservation and the fight against drug addiction. Option A is wrong on the count: the release describes this as the 25th anniversary of the grouping, which is why the leaders spoke of a roadmap for the next twenty-five years. Option C is wrong because Kyrgyzstan held the chairmanship, and the Prime Minister praised the focus on youth engagement under that chairmanship; Afghanistan appears in the release only as a country whose peace and stability matter for Eurasian security. Option D reverses the fact: accepting English as an official language in the SCO Charter was one of the proposals India led that the declaration carries.

The correct answer is Bishkek. The release from the Prime Minister's Office says that the 26th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held at Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, and that the Prime Minister took part in it on 1 September 2026 after the meeting had opened on 31 August. Two further details in the release fix the venue in memory. The main outcome document is itself called the Bishkek Declaration, and the Prime Minister thanked President Sadyr Japarov of the Kyrgyz Republic for the welcome and the hospitality his country extended. Astana, Tashkent and Samarkand are well known cities of other member states of the grouping, and an aspirant may recall them from earlier editions, but this release names none of them. It names only Bishkek, so every other option is wrong here.

The correct answer is Security, Connectivity and Opportunity. In his statement at Bishkek the Prime Minister recalled that at the previous summit he had set out three main pillars of India's thinking on the grouping, and that their initials spell the organisation's own short name: S for Security, C for Connectivity and O for Opportunity. He then asked that the three be carried beyond vision into concrete outcomes. Under security he sought the dismantling of the funding, recruitment, radicalisation and safe havens behind terror, with no double standards. Under connectivity he backed projects that join markets and widen trade while respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations. Under opportunity he said the test is how many openings young people, entrepreneurs and farmers gain. The other three options use words that sound plausible but appear nowhere as the formula in the release.