International Relations and Groupings in News MCQs

Both statements are incorrect. Maitri Setu links Sabroom in India with Ramgarh in Bangladesh, so statement 1 reverses the countries; Jhulaghat crosses the India–Nepal border, not the India–Myanmar border.

Statement 3 correctly matches the Mechi crossing, but statement 2 names the wrong neighbouring country. Jhulaghat’s suspension bridge over the Kali River connects India and Nepal, so it cannot be included.

Statement 1 has the river and bridge association right but swaps the endpoints’ countries. Sabroom is in Tripura, India, and Ramgarh is in Bangladesh; a matching statement fails when either side is reversed.

UNMIL and UNMISET are correctly placed, but MINURCAT and MINUSTAH have been interchanged. MINURCAT operated in the Central African Republic and Chad during 2007–2010; MINUSTAH operated in Haiti during 2004–2017.

MINURCAT and MINUSTAH are correctly matched here. The mistake is exchanging Liberia’s UNMIL period, 2003–2018, with East Timor’s UNMISET period, 2002–2005.

Every entry in this sequence is misplaced. Remember the geographic anchors: Liberia–UNMIL, Central African Republic/Chad–MINURCAT, Haiti–MINUSTAH, and East Timor–UNMISET, then match their periods.

Statement 1 incorrectly turns the Colombo Process into a binding decision-making body. Regional consultative processes facilitate informal cooperation; consensus does not by itself create a legally binding obligation.

The GFMD description in statement 3 is correct, but the Colombo Process description is not. This option also omits the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, which is a voluntary forum connecting Asian labour-origin and labour-destination countries.

Statement 2 is correct, but statement 3 is correct as well. The GFMD is a state-led, informal and non-binding forum, rather than a treaty organisation that imposes compulsory decisions.

The two Indian locations are correct, but the cultural observatory and technology facility have been exchanged. The cultural observatory is associated with Thimphu, Bhutan, whereas the Technology Transfer Facility belongs in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

This code interchanges both pairs. The energy centre is in Bengaluru and weather centre in Noida; the cultural observatory and technology facility match Thimphu and Colombo respectively.

The first and last matches are correct, but the Indian centres are swapped. Bengaluru hosts the Energy Centre; Noida hosts the Centre for Weather and Climate, so the middle codes must be 2, 1.

The IMT highway correctly belongs here, but Agartala–Akhaura is an India–Bangladesh link. Bangladesh’s location east of India and the project’s regional value do not make it an ASEAN-member-country project; Kaladan should be included instead.

Kaladan is correctly included because Myanmar is an ASEAN member. Agartala–Akhaura involves Bangladesh, however, and this choice omits the India–Myanmar–Thailand highway, which directly meets the question’s condition.

The IMT highway is correct but not the only qualifying project. Kaladan also involves Myanmar and is explicitly discussed by the Ministry of External Affairs in India–ASEAN connectivity cooperation.

Mangdechhu is in Bhutan, not the Maldives, and Stor Palace is in Kabul, Afghanistan, not Sri Lanka. The other two assignments are also reversed: Dickoya is in Sri Lanka and the police-training institute is in the Maldives.

This sequence correctly identifies Mangdechhu and the Maldivian institute, but interchanges the two middle countries. Stor Palace is an Afghan restoration project, whereas the hospital at Dickoya is in Sri Lanka.

Stor Palace–Afghanistan and Dickoya–Sri Lanka are correct here. However, the hydropower project belongs to Bhutan and the security-training institute to the Maldives, so the first and last codes must be 3 and 1.

Statements 1 and 2 are false. The three Sutras are People, Planet and Progress, not Planning; the Charter for Democratic Diffusion of AI is expressly voluntary and non-binding. Only the seven-pillar description in statement 3 is accepted.

Both selected statements contain keyword substitutions. “Planning” replaces “Planet” in statement 1, while “binding” reverses the declaration’s description of the charter in statement 2. The correct statement is the omitted statement 3.

Statement 3 is correct, but statement 2 changes a voluntary, non-binding framework into a binding one. International cooperation language does not by itself create a binding legal instrument, so the distinction is decisive.

This code confuses all four functions. Silver concerns criminal assets, Blue gathers information about a person, Black concerns unidentified bodies, and Green communicates public-safety warnings about criminal activity.

Blue and Black are matched correctly, but Silver and Green are exchanged. Silver traces assets associated with crime, whereas Green warns about people whose criminal activities may threaten public safety.

Silver and Green are correct in this sequence, but Blue and Black are reversed. Blue concerns information about a person in a criminal investigation; Black seeks information that can identify an unknown body.

Poland belongs to the EU, but Belarus and Switzerland do not. This option also omits Germany, which is an EU member, so it combines both false inclusions and a missing correct country.

Neither Belarus nor Switzerland is an EU member. Switzerland’s participation in European arrangements such as Schengen should not be confused with membership of the European Union.

This option correctly includes Poland but wrongly includes Switzerland and omits Germany. EU membership and Schengen participation are different legal arrangements, and Switzerland illustrates that distinction.

Both statements 2 and 3 are genuine outcomes, while the question asks for outcomes that are incorrectly stated. The official list includes a youth-hockey MoU and a bilateral Indo-Pacific dialogue mechanism.

Statement 4 is wrong because the announcement concerned Ahmedabad, but statement 3 is correct. This option also misses statement 1, whose university should be Charité rather than Hamburg.

Statement 1 is indeed wrong: the official counterpart was Charité. However, statement 4 is also wrong because the consular location announced was Ahmedabad rather than Lucknow, so selecting statement 1 alone is incomplete.

More than three of the listed countries are NATO members; Bulgaria, Croatia, Sweden and North Macedonia all belong to the alliance.

Only four, not five, of the listed countries are NATO members. Austria and Serbia remain outside the alliance.

Austria maintains military neutrality and Serbia has not joined NATO, so only four of the six qualify.

Statement 2 is also correct; Digital Public Infrastructure was a major agenda item during India's G-20 presidency.

Statement 1 is also correct; the G-20 began in 1999 as a finance-track forum of ministers and central bank governors.

Both statements are factually accurate and verifiable from official G-20 records.