{"id":323798,"date":"2020-06-07T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323798"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:21:23","slug":"operation-samudra-setu-ins-jalashwa-arrives-at-tuticorin-with-700-indian-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/operation-samudra-setu-ins-jalashwa-arrives-at-tuticorin-with-700-indian-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Samudra Setu \u2013 INS Jalashwa arrives at Tuticorin with 700 Indian citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-323799 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ins-jalashwa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/ins-jalashwa.jpg 568w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/ins-jalashwa-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/>INS Jalashwa, deployed by the Indian Navy for \u201cOperation Samudra Setu&#8221;, entered Tuticorinharbour with 700 Indian nationals evacuated from Male, Maldvies on June 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thus far INS Jalashwa has evacuated 2672 Indian citizens from Maldives and Sri Lanka to India as part of Vande Bharat Mission, according to official release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The embarkation of Indian nationals was facilitated by the Indian Mission in Maldives. Personnel were embarked onboard after carrying out requisite medical screening. COVID related safety protocols were also strictly adhered to during the sea-passage, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The evacuees were received by local authorities at Tuticorin and arrangements were in place for speedy disembarkation, health screening, immigration and transportation of the evacuees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With this evacuation, the Indian Navy has now repatriated 2874 Indian nationals from the Maldives and Sri Lanka during the ongoing pandemic, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Jalashwa, deployed by the Indian Navy for \u201cOperation Samudra Setu&#8221;, entered Tuticorinharbour with 700 Indian nationals evacuated from Male, Maldvies on June 7. Thus far INS Jalashwa has evacuated 2672 Indian citizens from Maldives and Sri Lanka to India as part of Vande Bharat Mission, according to official release. The embarkation of Indian nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13088,13089,13090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323798"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323802,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323798\/revisions\/323802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}