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Sankalp Yatra of New India Cover Story
CRACKDOWN ON TERROR

As soon as he took command of the country in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the
hearts of the countrymen with the simple and powerful mantra of 'India First.'Moving ahead with
this mantra, while on one hand the country is protecting the borders, on the other hand it is giving
a befitting reply to terrorism...

After 2016 there has been REDUCTION IN TERRORIST INCIDENTS NUMBER OF DEATHS DECREASED.
n
no casulaity in terror activity 2009 3574 2009 523
outside of Jammu and
Kashmir, Punjab and North 2021 1723 2021 314
East. At the xame time there
has been no terror attack or
blast. India has made terrorism
a global issue and is now
also leading the fight against
it. The incidents of left wing
extremism decreased by 53%,
and they came down to 509 in 10
2021 from 1,089 in 2015.

The threat of extremism is
increasing in the world today. Number of intrusions
Countries that are using 2018 143
terrorism as a tool forget that
terrorism will pose a threat to 2019 138
them too. 2020 51
- Narendra Modi, Prime
Minister 2021 34
In the 76th session of the
United Nations

11 Lending helping hand in every crisis

n 46 nurses kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq were saved in 2014. A total of 7000 Indians
Wherever an Indian lives in were evacuated.
any corner of the world, he n Many foreign nationals, including 4,778 Indians, were also rescued under
is like a Rashtradoot. This Operation Rahat. On a phone call from PM Modi, Saudi Arabia stopped the
vision of a New India has bombing every day from 9 am to 11 am for a week.
not only saved its people in n 2015 Nepal- After the earthquake rescued 5,188 Indians, including many
every calamity and every foreigners under operation Maitri.
difficulty, but has also led n 2016 Sudan-153 people rescued from South Sudan. At the beginning of 2020,
brought 637 Indians stranded in Wuhan from China during Covid.
the aid and relief efforts n 2020-During COVID, Indians trapped around the world were rescued through
in every hour of crisis. Be Operation Vande Bharat. 1.83 crore people were brought back from 2.17 lakh
it Operation Ganga during flights under this.
the Russo-Ukraine War or n More than 550 people have been rescued in Afghanistan since the Taliban's
Operation Vande Bharat insurgency began in 2021. The sacred forms of Sri Guru Granth Sahib were also
during the COVID crisis brought back. 2022 Ukraine: More than 22,500 Indian students were evacuated
from Ukraine under Operation Ganga during the Russia-Ukraine war.

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