{"id":343178,"date":"2023-04-24T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=343178"},"modified":"2023-04-24T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:58:25","slug":"india-launches-operation-kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-launches-operation-kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"India launches Operation Kaveri to evacuate its nationals from Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/India-launches-Operation-Kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-Sudan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/04\/India-launches-Operation-Kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-Sudan.jpg 670w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/04\/India-launches-Operation-Kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-Sudan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/04\/India-launches-Operation-Kaveri-to-evacuate-its-nationals-from-Sudan-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi: &nbsp;India on Monday launched &#8216;Operation Kaveri&#8217; to evacuate its nationals from violence-hit Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India&#8217;s ships and aircraft are set to bring the Indians back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Operation Kaveri gets underway to bring back our citizens stranded in Sudan. About 500 Indians have reached Port Sudan. More on their way,&#8221; Jaishankar tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our ships and aircraft are set to bring them back home. Committed to assist all our brethren in Sudan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India on Sunday said it has positioned two transport aircraft of the IAF in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah and a naval ship at a key port in Sudan as part of its contingency plans to evacuate the stranded Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had on Friday said it was focusing on the safety of over 3,000 Indian citizens presently located throughout Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan has been witnessing deadly fighting between the country&#8217;s army and a paramilitary group for the last 11 days that has reportedly left around 400 people dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: &nbsp;India on Monday launched &#8216;Operation Kaveri&#8217; to evacuate its nationals from violence-hit Sudan. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India&#8217;s ships and aircraft are set to bring the Indians back home. &#8220;Operation Kaveri gets underway to bring back our citizens stranded in Sudan. About 500 Indians have reached Port Sudan. More on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":343179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16566,16567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343178"}],"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=343178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343182,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343178\/revisions\/343182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}