UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Modi meets Norwegian PM as they upgrade their ties to Green Strategic Partnership

Q1. Under the India–EFTA TEPA, the EFTA states have committed to increase the stock of foreign direct investment into India by USD 100 billion over how many years from the Agreement's entry into force?

  • A. 10 years
  • B. 15 years
  • C. 20 years
  • D. 25 years

Q2. Which one of the following is the most recent country to have attained full membership of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)?

  • A. Iceland
  • B. Norway
  • C. Switzerland
  • D. Liechtenstein

Q3. On the Indian side, the India–Nordic Summit is steered as the nodal ministry by which of the following?

  • A. Ministry of External Affairs
  • B. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Ministry of Earth Sciences

Q4. The first India–Nordic Summit, which launched this leaders-level format, was held in 2018 in which city?

  • A. Copenhagen
  • B. Stockholm
  • C. Oslo
  • D. Helsinki

Q5. During the Italy leg of the Prime Minister's May 2026 tour, the two sides reviewed the 'Joint Strategic Action Plan 2025–2029'. This Plan is best described as which of the following?

  • A. A structured bilateral roadmap guiding India–Italy cooperation
  • B. An EFTA single-window investment facilitation mechanism
  • C. A climate-financing fund of the India–Nordic grouping
  • D. A European Union–India connectivity corridor agreement

Q6. PM Modi's May 2026 visit to Oslo was described as the first visit to Norway by an Indian Prime Minister since the visit of which leader?

  • A. Jawaharlal Nehru
  • B. Indira Gandhi
  • C. Rajiv Gandhi
  • D. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Q7. Cooperation on green hydrogen — a flagship pillar of the India–Norway Green Strategic Partnership — is anchored on the Indian side by the National Green Hydrogen Mission, which is implemented by which ministry?

  • A. Ministry of Power
  • B. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
  • C. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
  • D. Ministry of External Affairs

Q8. India's 'Green Strategic Partnership' — first concluded with Denmark and extended to Norway in 2026 — is best understood as a bilateral framework primarily centred on which of the following?

  • A. Climate action, clean energy and green growth cooperation
  • B. An exclusively military and defence-technical alliance
  • C. A preferential free-trade and tariff-elimination arrangement
  • D. A joint currency-swap and financial-stability mechanism

Q9. The 'blue economy', identified as an area of India–Norway cooperation, is most precisely defined as which of the following?

  • A. The sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, livelihoods and jobs while preserving marine and coastal ecosystem health
  • B. The exploitation of offshore oil and natural-gas reserves within a country's exclusive economic zone
  • C. The economy built around information technology and digital services
  • D. An inter-state framework for sharing river and freshwater resources