{"id":303707,"date":"2018-10-03T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303707"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:19:38","slug":"india-launches-operation-samudra-maitri-for-tsunami-hit-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-launches-operation-samudra-maitri-for-tsunami-hit-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"India launches Operation Samudra Maitri for tsunami-hit Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303709 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/DofJy0eXUAA0kKf-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Wednesday has launched a massive &#8216;Operation Samudra Maitri&#8217; to assist victims of earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi Province of the Republic of Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTwo IAF Aircrafts, C-130J and C-17, carrying medical personnel and relief material departed today morning,\u201d an External Affairs Ministry statement said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The operation for humanitarian assistance was launched after the telephonic conversation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President Joko Widodo on 1st October 2018 and following Indonesia&#8217;s acceptance for international aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The C-130J aircraft is carrying a medical team onboard along with tents and equipment to set up a field hospital. The C-17 aircraft is carrying medicines, generators, tents and water to provide immediate assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Naval Ships \u2013 INS Tir, INS Sujatha and INS Shardul \u2013 have also been mobilized to carry out humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). These ships are likely to reach the Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia on 6th October 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nearly 1400 people were killed in the devastating 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Sulawesi island last Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Wednesday has launched a massive &#8216;Operation Samudra Maitri&#8217; to assist victims of earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi Province of the Republic of Indonesia. \u201cTwo IAF Aircrafts, C-130J and C-17, carrying medical personnel and relief material departed today morning,\u201d an External Affairs Ministry statement said.\u00a0 The operation for humanitarian assistance was launched after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047,5409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303711,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303707\/revisions\/303711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}