Whose visit to India in May 2026 is credited with giving momentum to the India-Cyprus Strategic Partnership?

The correct answer is Cyprus and Greece. The Ministry of Defence has said that the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, will undertake an official visit to these two countries from 12 to 15 October 2026, with the Cyprus leg falling on 12 and 13 October and Greece forming the second half of the tour. In Cyprus he is to meet counterparts in the Cypriot Ministry of Defence and call on the leadership, while in Greece he will interact with the senior defence and military leadership. Options B, C and D each pair one correct country with one that does not appear in the announcement, or name countries that are not part of it at all. Candidates should note that both countries on the itinerary are members of the European Union, which is what links the visit to the India-EU Security and Defence Partnership.

The correct answer is maritime security and defence industrial cooperation. The announcement states that these two subjects will remain prominent themes in the discussions with both countries. Maritime security matters because Cyprus and Greece sit on the shipping routes of the eastern Mediterranean, and the ministry says the Cyprus engagement is expected to deepen bilateral work particularly in the maritime domain. Defence industrial cooperation covers joint work in making and supplying military equipment, an area India has been opening to foreign partners. Option A shifts the subject to space cooperation, which the announcement does not mention. Option C names law-enforcement subjects that belong to a different kind of agreement. Option D lists tourism and education, which are not what a Defence Secretary's visit is built around. The two correct themes should be remembered as a pair.

The correct answer is Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh. The Ministry of Defence recalls that the Greek Minister of National Defence came to India in February 2026 and held talks with the Raksha Mantri, and it treats such high-level exchanges as evidence of a growing India-Greece partnership in the defence and strategic domains. The Defence Secretary's own interaction in Greece, during the second leg of his tour from 12 to 15 October 2026, follows from that engagement and will be with the senior defence and military leadership of the country. Option B names the Chief of Defence Staff, option D the Chief of the Naval Staff, and option C the External Affairs Minister; none of them is named as the host of those February talks. Remember that the Indian counterpart of a visiting Defence Minister is the Raksha Mantri.

The correct answer is option A. The text taken up as the emergency item sought urgent parliamentary action to address climate-related disasters and to strengthen resilience in the Himalayan region and other vulnerable regions, a subject of obvious concern to India and its neighbours. Option B, reform of the United Nations Security Council, is wrong; that is a recurring theme of debates among governments at the United Nations, not the emergency item of this Assembly. Option C, regulation of artificial intelligence in elections, is wrong and finds no place among the documents adopted here. Option D, debt relief for the least developed countries, is wrong as well. Candidates should keep the three outcomes of the Assembly apart: the Arusha Communiqué, the resolution of the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights on inclusive social development and the rights and empowerment of persons with disabilities, and the emergency item on climate-related disasters.

The correct answer is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Harivansh, who led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation at Arusha and was one of the three members who cast India's votes for the IPU presidency. Option A, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, is wrong, though the Speaker is connected with the event in another way: the letter of congratulation presented to the newly elected President came from the Lok Sabha Speaker, carried by the Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra. Option C, the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, is wrong and is simply a confusion of the two Houses and their presiding officers. Option D, the Minister of External Affairs, is wrong on a point of principle worth remembering: the Inter-Parliamentary Union is a forum of national parliaments rather than of governments, so a country is represented there by a parliamentary delegation of members of its legislature and not by its foreign ministry. The other two Indian votes were cast by the Lok Sabha members Anurag Singh Thakur and Kamaljeet Sehrawat.