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  One of India’s finest and fastest overseas operations. When several countries declined to help the Maldives to prevent a coup, citing less armed force and time barrier, India took a big step within hours. This overseas operation by Indian armed forces will be remembered always as one of the fastest and finest. When Maldives was facing an attempt of a coup by a group led by Abdullah Luthufi with the help of PLOTE ( People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam). Around 80 mercenaries landed in Male, the national capi t al of Maldives, on the night of 2-3 November 1988, they captured important installations like airports, government buildings, radio stations, and ports. Then they headed towards the Presidential Palace, meanwhile, President Gayoom was rescued by Maldivian forces to the safe house. Then the mercenaries captured the Presidential Palace and kidnapped the Maldivian Education Minister as a hostage. Maldivian President Gayoom asked for military intervention from Pakista...

  The term "grass-root development" creates in my mind the image of inclusive development that truly benefits the disadvantaged people of society and the country the most. In a large country like India, due to lack of necessary effort, ignorance, and corruption by responsible persons, the problem is that development work and schemes are untouched by those who need them. Even after so many years of independence, India still lacks much-needed grass root development. According to me, grass-root development is a necessary condition for the full-fledged development of the country. The charact e ristics of a country's grassroots development also include employment availability, social prosperity, low number of people below the poverty line, women's safety, and reasonable sex ratio. The gap between uneven development between big cities, plush areas, small crowded towns, villages, slum areas, and remote areas of the country can be seen. This discrimination of development itse...