Jaipur:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed as “heroic” the profitable conduct of an operation by the Indian Navy to free a service provider ship from the clutches of pirates within the North Arabian Sea.

Addressing the 58th convention of the DGPs and the IGPs right here, Prime Minister Modi additionally referred to the success of India’s first photo voltaic mission craft Aditya L1 and mentioned it’s a testomony to the facility of India and the prowess of Indian scientists.

“Two days in the past, the Indian Navy accomplished a really profitable heroic operation. When it bought the message {that a} service provider ship was in misery, the Indian Navy and the marine commandos bought energetic,” he mentioned.

The Prime Minister mentioned there have been 21 sailors within the ship of which 15 have been Indians. The ship was about 2,000 km away from the Indian coast.

He mentioned the Navy rescued all of the sailors from hazard.

“The Indian sailors (after they have been rescued) have been hailing the bravery of the commandos and elevating the slogan of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’,” he mentioned.

On January 5, the Indian Navy’s elite marine commandos rescued all 21 crew members together with 15 Indians from a bulk service after boarding it from a warship in a swift operation within the North Arabian Sea that adopted after round 5 to 6 armed pirates tried to hijack the Liberian-flagged vessel.

On the Aditya L1 mission, Modi mentioned the spacecraft reached its vacation spot, the L1 level, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth from the place it can research the Solar’s wonders, uninterrupted by eclipses and occultations.

“That is the spot from the place Aditya L1 might be in clear view of the Solar. That is going to significantly assist in scientific analysis like our moon mission,” he mentioned.

The prime minister mentioned the success of the Aditya L1 is a testomony to India’s energy and prowess of Indian scientists. It’s one other nice instance,” he mentioned.

In yet one more landmark for its area programme, India’s first photo voltaic mission craft Aditya L1 on January 6 reached its vacation spot from the place it can orbit the Solar and research our star’s wonders, uninterrupted by eclipses and occultations.

The ISRO’s newest feat got here months after the success of Chandrayaan-3 the place the area company achieved the difficult mushy touchdown of the craft on the lunar floor.

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