International Relations Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 26)

Correct: March 2025. India and New Zealand announced the start of FTA talks on 16 March 2025, as PM Luxon arrived in Delhi. The deal itself was signed on 27 April 2026.

Correct: the Strategic Partnership Roadmap to 2030. The two leaders raised ties to a Strategic Partnership and unveiled a roadmap. It covers trade, defence, maritime security, counter-terrorism, agriculture, education and emerging technology.

Correct: it was the first visit by an Indian PM to New Zealand in 40 years. Modi landed in Auckland on 10 July 2026, and talks with PM Luxon followed on 11 July. The first-ever option is wrong, because the gap is described as 40 years.

ECTA was signed on 2 April 2022 and entered into force on 29 December 2022, India’s first FTA with a major economy in over a decade.

PACTS (Australia-India Partnership for Cyber, Critical Technologies, and Supply Chains) builds on a 2020 framework arrangement on cyber cooperation.

The finalised Administrative Arrangement enables long-term Australian uranium exports to India, for peaceful use under IAEA safeguards.

PM Modi visited Melbourne from 8 to 10 July 2026 for the 3rd India-Australia Annual Summit, following the 1st (New Delhi, 2023) and 2nd (Rio de Janeiro, 2024).

India and Australia elevated their Strategic Partnership to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership at a Virtual Summit on 4 June 2020.

India’s delegation at the 23rd National Level Meeting was led by Govind Mohan, Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project connects Kolkata port to Sittwe port in Myanmar, then links by river and road to Mizoram.

In December 2024, India tightened the Free Movement Regime, requiring biometric border passes, valid for seven days, limited to within 10 km of the border.

The Free Movement Regime began in 1968, and was formalised under the Act East Policy in 2018.

The correct answer is 8. PIB says eight sub-committees were constituted under the AITIGA Joint Committee. The review was tasked in September 2022. Not every sub-committee meets each time. Five of the eight met in April 2025. Seven met in August 2025. Three met in July 2026.

The correct answer is the Look East Policy. The MEA brief says Look East matured into the action-oriented Act East Policy. The Prime Minister formally enunciated Act East at the 12th ASEAN-India Summit in November 2014. The stem says Look East began in 1991. An MEA-hosted lecture says Narasimha Rao enunciated it in 1992. The MEA brief says only that it arose from changes since the early 1990s. So the sources differ on the year, but the answer is the same.

The correct answer is Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The 19th ASEAN-India Summit was held on 12 November 2022 in Phnom Penh. Leaders established the partnership there. The other options are earlier steps. India became a Sectoral Dialogue Partner in 1992. It became a full Dialogue Partner in December 1995 in the ASEAN account and in 1996 in the MEA account. The summit partnership began in 2002.

The correct answer is 2010. The ASEAN Secretariat says AITIGA was signed on 13 August 2009 in Bangkok. It entered into force on 1 January 2010. The other years belong to other steps. In 2012 ties became a Strategic Partnership. The services and investment agreements were signed in 2014. By 2016 tariffs on over 4,000 product lines had been eliminated.

India and Rwanda agreed to expand their bilateral defence partnership at the meeting, held in New Delhi.

The 2nd JDCC meeting was held in New Delhi on 7 July 2026, where India and Rwanda agreed to expand their bilateral defence partnership.

The five pillars are Civilisational Connect, Shared Development, Security and Strategic Trust, Maritime Prosperity, and Voice of the Global South. Nuclear energy was discussed separately in the visit’s Joint Statement, but is not one of the five named pillars.

PM Modi presented the “Ganga-Mahakam Vision” to Indonesia’s Parliament on 7 July 2026. MAHASAGAR is a separate, existing Indian vision for the wider Indo-Pacific, mentioned in the same visit.