The Indian government initiated Operation Kaveri to rescue over 3000 Indian nationals stranded in the war-torn country of Sudan.
100,000 Iraqi soldiers armed with 700 tanks marched into Kuwait. Over 170,000 of those stranded in Kuwait were Indians. All the 170,000 Indians were airlifted and repatriated to India.
When a military conflict broke out between Israel and Lebanon, India rescued its stranded citizens, which is also known as the 'Beirut Sealift'. It was the largest naval rescue mission since the 'Dunkirk' evacuation.
It was a joint relief and rescue operation by the Indian government and the Indian Armed Forces in the aftershock of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The operation evacuated over 5000 Indians from Nepal by IAF and civilian planes.
When a conflict broke out between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, thousand of Indians were stranded. Yemen was inaccessible due to a no-fly zone announced by Saudi Arabia. India evacuated nearly 5600 people from Yemen.
When the world came to a standstill during the Covid-19 pandemic, the government launched this mission to bring back Indian citizens stranded in foreign countries. It was carried out in multiple phases and about 60 lakh Indians were brought back home.
This operation was carried out by the IAF to bring back Indians safely from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city of the Taliban.
It is an evacuation mission to bring back all the Indians who are currently in Ukraine. There were around 200,000 Indians including students stranded in Ukraine.
This operation is launched to bring back stranded Indian citizens from Syria and Turkey after the two countries were hit badly by the 2023 earthquake.