Which of these is NOT a platform used by HQ IDS to strengthen jointness?

The correct answer is 1 October 2001. HQ IDS was established in New Delhi on that date, and the day is observed every year as Tri-Service Day; the organisation therefore completed 25 years and celebrated its Silver Jubilee under the theme of future readiness through jointness and integration. Option B is wrong because the body did not exist in that year, and an earlier date would not fit a Silver Jubilee falling now. Option C is wrong because that date belongs to no part of this story, and the founding was in October, not January. Option D is wrong because the post of Chief of Defence Staff and the Department of Military Affairs came much later than the raising of HQ IDS, so a date from this decade cannot be its founding day. Fix the date along with the name Tri-Service Day.

The correct answer is “Future readiness through jointness and Integration”. Under this theme HQ IDS organised Trishakti Manthan, released a Silver Jubilee Book and a film on its milestones, and conferred CDS Unit Citations on personnel. Option A is wrong because Atmanirbharta in defence is the wider national goal that HQ IDS supports by working with research organisations, academia and industry on indigenous capability, but it was not the jubilee theme. Option C is wrong because joint training frameworks were only one of the contributions discussed at the event and no such slogan was adopted. Option D is wrong because cyber and space are among the emerging domains the organisation prepares the forces for, yet neither phrase formed the theme. Themes are a favourite one-mark question, so the exact wording matters.

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.