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Operation All-Out Operation Bajrang Operation Black Tornado Operation Bluestar

Operation All-Out

Location- Assam
Year- 2015
Objective:to eliminate the Bodo militants from Assam

Operation Bajrang

Location- Assam
Year- 1990
Objective: against the ULFAs in Assam

Operation Black Tornado

Location- Mumbai
Year- 2008
Objective: Conducted by National Security Guards (NSG) to eliminate the remaining attackers from Taj Hotel.

Operation Bluestar

Location – Amritsar, Punjab
Year- 1984
Objectives: To remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple
The operation had two components-

Operation Metal- it was confined to the Temple.
Operation Shop- raided the Punjabi countryside to capture any suspects

Operation Brasstacks

Location – A major military exercise held in Rajasthan
Year- 1986
Objectives:

Deployment of ground troops.
to conduct a series of amphibious assault exercises of India Navy near the Pakistan naval base.

Operation Cactus

Location – Maldives
Year- 1988
Objectives: A coup was attempted by a group of Maldivians led by Abdullah Luthufi and assisted by armed mercenaries of a Tamil secessionist organization from Sri Lanka, the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE).
The coup failed due to the intervention of the Indian Army.

Operation Castor

Location- Maldives
Year- 2004
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Operation Checkmate

Location – Sri Lanka
Year- 1988
Objectives: an anti-insurgency operation carried out by the IPKF against the LTTE in the Vadamarachi area of Northern Sri Lanka

Operation Cocoon

Location- Sathyamangalam Forest in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala
Year- 2004
Objective: to capture and kill Veerappan

Operation Cyclone

Location- Mumbai
Year- 2008
Objective: by NSGs to eliminate terrorists from Nariman Point.

Operation Gambhir

Location- Indonesia
Year- 2004
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Operation Good Samaritan

Location- Manipur
Year- 1995
Objective: humanitarian taks

Operation Goodwill

Location- Jammu & Kashmir
Year- 2005
Objective: humanitarian tasks in Jammu and Kashmir

Operation Madad

Location- Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh
Year- 2004
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Operation Maitri

Location- Nepal
Year- 2015
Objective: rescue and relief operation in the aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Operation Meghdoot

Location- Siachen
Year- 1984
Objective: conducted by the Indian Armed Forces to gain control over the Siachen Glacier

Operation Parakram

Location- Indo-Pak Border
Year- 2001
Objective: It was a military stand-off between India and Pakistan, initiated by India in response to a terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament.

Operation Pawan

Location – Sri Lanka
Year- 1987
Objectives: by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Operation Polo

Location- Hyderabad
Year- 1948
Objective: Indian integration of Hyderabad

Operation Poomalai/ Eagle Mission 4

Location- Sri Lanka
Year- 1987
Objective: Mission by the Indian Air Force to air-drop supplies over the beiseged town of Jaffna in support of Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War

Operation Python

Location- Karachi
Year- 1971
Objective: a naval attack launched on Karachi by the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pak War, 1971

Operation Raahat

Location- Yemen
Year- 2015
Objective: to evacuate Indian citizens and other foreign nationals during the Yemen crisis

Operation Rahat

Location- Uttarakhand
Year- 2013
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Uttarakhand floods

Operation Rainbow

Location- Sri Lanka
Year- 2004
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Operation Rajiv

Location- Siachen
Year- 1987
Objective: to capture the highest peak in the Siachen

Operation Rhino

Location- Assam
Year- 1992
Objective: to unearth the ULFAs in Assam

Operation Safe Homecoming

Location- Libya
Year- 2011
Objective: to bring Indian nationals from Libya during the Libyan Civil War

Operation Safed Sagar

Location- Kargil
Year- 1999
Objective: by the Indian Air Force to flush out regular and irregular troops of the Pakistani Army from the LoC.

Operation Sankat Mochan

Location- South Sudan
Year- 2016
Objective: to evacuate Indian citizens from the war-torn capital ‘Juba’ of South Sudan

Operation Sea Waves

Location- Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Year- 2004
Objective: disaster relief operation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Operation Steeplechase

Location- West Bengal
Year- 1971
Objective: launched by Indian army along with Police to put down a Santhal tribal uprising. This was the end of the Naxalite movement that began in in 1967 in Naxalbari, West Bengal. The operation broke the back of the first Naxalite upsurge in West Bengal.

Operation Sukoon

Location- Lebanon
Year- 2006
Objective: to evacuate Indian, Sri Lankan and Nepalese nationals, as well as Lebanese national with Indian spouses during the Lebanon War

Operation Surya Hope

Location- Uttarakhand
Year- 2013
Objective: to save people trapped in floods

Operation Trident

Location- Karachi, Pakistan
Year- 1971
Objective: a naval attack launched on Karachi by the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pak War, 1971. It was followed up by Operation Python

Operation Trishul

Location – Sri Lanka
Year- 1988
Objectives: was an anti-insurgency operation alongwith Operation Viraat launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in Northern Sri Lanka

Operation Vijay (1)

Location- Goa, Daman & Diu, Anjidiv island
Year- 1961
Objective: Capture of the three places and ended the Portugese colonial rule there

Operation Vijay (2)

Location- Kargil
Year- 1999
Objective: To push back Pakistani infiltrators and militants from the Indian side of the LoC and clear the Kargil sector.

Operation Viraat

Location – Sri Lanka
Year- 1988
Objectives: an anti-insurgency operation alongwith Operation Trishul launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in Northern Sri Lanka

Operation Woodrose