Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :
List-I (Joint Exercise)
A. India – Uzbekistan Joint Military Exercise, "DUSTLIK"
B. India – France Joint

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Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :
List-I (Joint Exercise)
A. India – Uzbekistan Joint Military Exercise, "DUSTLIK"
B. India – France Joint Military Exercise, "SHAKTI"
C. Harbour phase of Indo – US Joint Exercise, Tiger Triumph, 2024
D. MILAN, 2024
List-II (Dates)
1. February 19 – 27, 2024
2. May 13 – 26, 2024
3. April 15 – 28, 2024
4. March 18 – 25, 2024
Codes :

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Correct — B, A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1. Take the four events in the order the calendar puts them. MILAN 2024, the multilateral naval exercise the Indian Navy hosts at Visakhapatnam, ran from 19 to 27 February 2024 — so D goes with 1. The harbour phase of Tiger Triumph 2024, the India–United States tri-service humanitarian-assistance and disaster-relief exercise, ran at Visakhapatnam from 18 to 25 March 2024 before the ships sailed for the sea phase — so C goes with 4. DUSTLIK, the annual India–Uzbekistan joint military exercise, was held from 15 to 28 April 2024 at Termez in Uzbekistan — so A goes with 3. And SHAKTI, the India–France joint exercise, was held from 13 to 26 May 2024 at the Foreign Training Node at Umroi in Meghalaya — so B goes with 2. That gives A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1, which is option (b). There is a one-step shortcut worth learning: MILAN 2024 is the only one of the four that took place in February, and slot 1 (February 19–27) is the only February date on the list. Fix D-1 and three of the four options fall away immediately, because (a) pairs D with May, (c) pairs D with April and (d) pairs D with March. Note also the phrasing of item C — the booklet deliberately says 'harbour phase', because Tiger Triumph 2024 was run in two blocks, a harbour phase at Visakhapatnam followed by a sea phase that ended with an amphibious landing near Kakinada, and only the harbour phase falls inside 18–25 March.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Gets DUSTLIK right (A-3, April) and then shuffles the other three. It puts SHAKTI in 18–25 March, which is the Tiger Triumph harbour-phase window; it puts the Tiger Triumph harbour phase in 19–27 February, which belongs to MILAN; and it pushes MILAN out to 13–26 May, which is when the India–France exercise SHAKTI was held at Umroi. MILAN in May is the single clearest error here — the 2024 edition was a February event at Visakhapatnam.  (c) Gets SHAKTI right (B-2, 13–26 May) but moves DUSTLIK from April to 18–25 March, dates that belong to the Tiger Triumph harbour phase; it then dates that harbour phase to 19–27 February, which is MILAN's window, and shifts MILAN to 15–28 April, which is DUSTLIK's. Two of the four pairs are simply rotated by one slot.  (d) Every pair is wrong except in the sense that it keeps the same four dates. DUSTLIK is placed in May (it was April) and SHAKTI in April (it was May) — the two are swapped. The Tiger Triumph harbour phase is placed in February (it was March) and MILAN in March (it was February) — that pair is swapped too. Since MILAN is not matched to 19–27 February, this option can be discarded without checking anything else.

Concept: India runs a large and growing calendar of bilateral and multilateral military exercises, and UPPSC has settled into asking them as match-the-list items — exercise to partner country, to service, to venue, or, as here, to date. Each name carries a fixed partner: DUSTLIK is only ever India–Uzbekistan, SHAKTI is only ever India–France, Tiger Triumph is only ever India–United States, and MILAN is not bilateral at all but a multilateral naval gathering that the Indian Navy hosts. Learning the partner first, then the service, then the venue, and only then the date, is the order in which these facts actually get tested.

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