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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephone speech with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake connected Monday (December 1, 2025), and assured India’s continued enactment nether Operation Sagar Bandhu that was launched to assistance the land federation arsenic it continues to woody with the devastation caused by cyclone Ditwah.
“Spoke with President Dissanayake and conveyed heartfelt condolences connected the tragic nonaccomplishment of lives and the wide devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah. As a adjacent and trusted friend, India stands firmly beside Sri Lanka and its radical successful this hard hour. India volition proceed to widen each indispensable enactment nether the ongoing Operation Sagar Bandhu for alleviation and rescue efforts and volition basal with Sri Lanka successful the days up arsenic it undertakes rehabilitation and recovery,” Prime Minister Modi said successful a connection connected X. President Dissanayake conveyed the appreciation of the radical of Sri Lanka for India’s humanitarian assistance and catastrophe alleviation (HADR).
After Sri Lanka sought planetary assistance to enactment rescue efforts, India sent contiguous assistance from INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri and MI-17 helicopters to assistance radical with alleviation items and rescue operations. So acold nether Operation Sagar Bandhu, nationals of Sri Lanka, India, Germany, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Poland, Belarus, Iran, Australia, Pakistan and Bangladesh person been rescued, said a authorities statement.
NDRF teams that were dispatched connected November 29 person been continuing with “search and rescue” operations successful assorted heavy affected regions of Sri Lanka. India has truthful acold handed implicit 53 tonnes of alleviation worldly to Sri Lanka, an authoritative property merchandise has said.
