22/03/2022
Current affairs topic
Evacuation Operations Carried out by India
● Operation Ganga: It was launched to help stranded Indian nationals come back to India from Ukraine through special flights amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
● Operation Devi Shakti: Under this, Indians and foreign nationals were evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the nation.
● Operation Raahat: It was launched by the Indian Armed Forces, to evacuate Indian citizens from Yemen during the 2015 Yemen Crisis.
● Operation Maitri: It was a rescue and relief operation in Nepal carried out by the government of India and Indian armed forces in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
● Operation Safe Homecoming: It was an operation launched by the Indian government in 2011 to evacuate its citizens, fleeing from the Libyan Civil War.
● Operation Sukoon: It was an operation carried out by the Indian Navy to evacuate Indian, Sri Lankan and Nepalese nationals from the conflict zone during the 2006 Lebanon War.
