Select the correct statement/s from the following :
A. INS Vikrant officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024.
B. INS Vikrant (INS – I) is an aircraft carrier in service

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Select the correct statement/s from the following :
A. INS Vikrant officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024.
B. INS Vikrant (INS – I) is an aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy. It is the first ship of its kind to be built in Tamil Nadu.

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Correct — option (1), Only A. INS Vikrant, India's first indigenously built aircraft carrier, officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024, going on to operate alongside INS Vikramaditya as part of India's dual-carrier battle group. Statement A is accurate. Statement B fails on a single, checkable fact: INS Vikrant was designed by the Navy's own Warship Design Bureau and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited — that is, in Kochi, Kerala, not Tamil Nadu. Everything else in statement B (that it is an aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy, and the first of its kind built indigenously) is correct, but the state named is wrong, which is enough to make the whole statement incorrect for the purpose of this question.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) This would require statement B to be true and statement A false. Statement A is in fact correct — INS Vikrant did join the Western Naval Command in August 2024 — so this option gets the true statement backwards, and statement B is itself wrong on the state of construction (Kerala, not Tamil Nadu).  (c) This treats statement B as accurate alongside A. Statement B's claim that INS Vikrant was the first ship of its kind 'to be built in Tamil Nadu' is factually wrong — it was built by Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala. A single wrong location is enough to disqualify the whole statement, even though the rest of B (aircraft carrier, in service, first indigenous carrier) is accurate.  (d) This would require both statements to be false. Statement A — that INS Vikrant officially joined the Western Naval Command in August 2024 — is correct, so at least one statement is true, and 'none of the above' cannot be the answer.

Concept: INS Vikrant is India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, developed by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau and constructed at Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala. Its commissioning and subsequent operational integration into the fleet are landmark events in India's indigenous defence shipbuilding programme.

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