Operation Sindoor - 2025

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Operation Sindoor - 2025

  • It came two weeks after the Pahalgam attack (22.04.2025) & Operation Sindoor (07.05.2025) in which 26 people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Baisaran hill station.
  • The operation was the deepest strikes inside Pakistan's territory since 1971, successfully targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
  • The operation's code name is a reference to only men being singled out based on their faith before killed in pahalgam.
  • Sindoor is the hindi word for vermillion, which married hindu women apply to their foreheads.
  • Operation Sindoor was perhaps India's revenge on behalf of the widows of pahalgam terror attack.

Operation Riddle, 1965

  • This was India's response to Pakistan's operation Gibraltor and Grand Slam in 1965.
  • Pakistan violated the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir.
  • In response, on 6th september, 1965, India launched the operation Riddle in Lahore and Kasur.

Operation Ablaze, 1965

  • This was an Indian Army exercise along the western border in May - June, 1965, following Pakistani attack in Rann of Kutch.
  • It took before the Pakistan's operation Gibraltor.
  • This operation did not involve direct combat, however demonstrated India's readiness before the war broke out in August, 1965.

Operation Cactus Lily, 1971

  • Also known as The Meghna Heli Bridge
  • This was an air operation by India in December, 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
  • This operation was conducted by the Indian Army and Indian Air force to cross the Meghna river and reach Dhaka.

Operation Trident, 1971

  • It was launched by the Indian Navy on the port city of Karachi during the Indo - Pak War, 1971.
  • In this operation, anti ship missiles were used for the first time.
  • The operation was conducted on the night of 4 & 5 December, 1971.

3rd Indo Pak War, 1971

  • It occurred during the Bangladesh liberation war in East Pakistan from 3rd December, 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16th December 1971.

Operation Meghdoot, 1984

  • It refers to the Indian army's operation to take full control of the Siachen glacier in Ladakh.
  • The operation was executed on the morning of 13th April, 1984. It marks the highest battlefield in the world.
  • The Indian army is the only army in the world to have deployed tanks and other heavy ordinance at altitudes well over 5,000 meters.

Operation Vijay, 1999

  • It is the code name for the military operation in May, 1999 to reclaim the areas occupied by the Pakistani forces during the Kargil war.
  • The Kargil conflict, was fought between May 1999 and June, 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh and along the line of control.

Operation Safed Sagar, 1999

  • The Indian air force acted jointly with the Indian Army to flush out the Pakistan army and paramilitary troops from the vacated Indian positions along the LoC.

Surgical strikes, 2016

  • In September 2016, the Indian army conducted strikes across the LoC, a response to the Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, on 18 September, 2016, killing at least 19 soldiers and injuring others.

Operation Bandar, 2019

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