{"id":10090,"date":"2023-04-25T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:47:48","slug":"what-is-operation-kaveri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-operation-kaveri\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Operation Kaveri?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Operation Kaveri:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>rescue operation<\/strong> being carried out <strong>by the Indian Government<\/strong> to <strong>bring back Indian citizens stranded in Sudan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to the official data, the <strong>number of Indians in Sudan is around 4,000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the operation,\u00a0 <strong>two C-130 aircraft and the navy ship INS Sumedha is on standby t<\/strong>o safely evacuate stranded Indians.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why the need for evacuation?<\/strong> Sudan has been <strong>witnessing deadly fighting between<\/strong> the <strong>country&#8217;s army<\/strong> and a paramilitary group, <strong>the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)<\/strong> that has reportedly left several hundred\u2019s dead.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause of fighting?<\/strong> It was triggered by <strong>disagreement over an internationally backed plan to form a new civilian government<\/strong> four years after the fall of autocrat Omar al-Bashir and two years after the military coup. Both sides accuse the other of thwarting the transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Sudan:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>northeastern Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is bounded<\/strong> on the north <strong>by Egypt<\/strong>, on the east <strong>by the Red Sea<\/strong>, <strong>Eritrea<\/strong>, and <strong>Ethiopia<\/strong>, on the south by <strong>South Sudan<\/strong>, on the west by the <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong> and <strong>Chad<\/strong>, and on the northwest by <strong>Libya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Khartoum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sudan is mainly <strong>composed of vast plains and plateaus<\/strong> that are <strong>drained by the Nile River<\/strong> and its tributaries.<\/li>\n<li>The country is <strong>dominated by Muslims<\/strong>, most of whom speak Arabic and identify themselves as \u201cArabs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arabic is the primary language<\/strong> of much of the population and is the most common medium for the conduct of government, commerce, and urban life throughout the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is INS Sumedha?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>INS Sumedha is an indigenously built Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel deployed for multiple roles independently and in support of Fleet Operations. It is part of the Indian Navy&#8217;s Eastern Fleet based at Visakhapatnam and functions under the operational command of the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-launches-operation-kaveri-to-evacuate-stranded-citizens-from-war-hit-sudan\/article66773499.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India launches Operation Kaveri to evacuate stranded citizens from war-hit Sudan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Kaveri is a rescue operation to bring back Indian citizens stranded in Sudan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}