Question

Name of the Operation by NSG against terrorist strikes in Mumbai was?
1. Operation Black Tornado
2. Operation Vijay
3. Operation Black Thunder
4. Operation Mumbai Sagar

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Operation Black Tornado

The correct answer is Operation Black Tornado.

 

• On 29th November, India's NSG (National Security Guards) conducted Operation Black Tornado in order to flush out the remaining attackers.
• It resulted in the death of the few remaining attackers at the Taj Hotel & ended the attacks.

Operations were undertaken by NSG

• Operation Black Thunder (Golden Temple, Amritsar, 1986 & 1988)
• Operation Ashwamedh (Indian Airlines Flight-IC427 hijacking, India, 1993)
• Operation Thunderbolt or Vajra Shakti (Akshardham Temple attack, Gujarat, 2002)
• Operation Black Tornado (Mumbai Blasts, 2008)

 

• The NSG is a counter-terrorism unit that formally came into existence in 1986 by an act of Parliament- ‘National Security Guard Act, 1986’.
• The idea behind raising such force came in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star (an Indian military action carried out to remove the militant religious leader from the Golden Temple, Amritsar) in 1984, the Akshardham Temple attack, and the assassination of former PM Indira Gandhi, for ‘combating terrorist activities with a view to protecting states against internal disturbances.’