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MEA Parliament replies (11-12 Dec 2025): Middle East evacuations, cyber slavery, Arunachal

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: MEA Parliament replies (11-12 Dec 2025): Middle East evacuations, cyber slavery, Arunachal (GS2 · Parliament replies, 12 December 2025)

What happened

  • India evacuated 5,945 nationals from Israel, Iran, Syria and Iraq in three years, including under Operations Ajay and Sindhu; 1,474 of them were from Uttar Pradesh [MEA, Lok Sabha reply].
  • Fake job offers, mostly through social media, have lured Indians to scam centres in Cambodia, Myanmar and Lao PDR where they are made to carry out cyber crime [MEA, Rajya Sabha reply].
  • India took up strongly with China the detention of an Arunachal-born Indian citizen in transit at Shanghai airport and repeated that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral and inalienable part of India [MEA, Lok Sabha reply].

Background

  • Renunciations of Indian citizenship stood at 2,06,378 in 2024 [MEA, Rajya Sabha reply].

Why it matters

  • UP had the largest share of evacuees in the reply, which says a lot about where Gulf and Israel workers come from.

How to use this in Mains

GS-II Parliament and State legislatures

  1. As per MEA (2025-12-12): india evacuated 5,945 nationals from Israel, Iran, Syria and Iraq in three years, including under Operations Ajay and Sindhu; 1,474 of them were from Uttar Pradesh.
  2. UP had the largest share of evacuees in the reply, which says a lot about where Gulf and Israel workers come from.
Quotable data point

India evacuated 5,945 nationals from Israel, Iran, Syria and Iraq in three years, including under Operations Ajay and Sindhu.

MEA: LS Q181 Evacuation from Middle East, 12 Dec 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: none. · Mains: protection of emigrant workers; cyber slavery.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Of 5,945 Indians evacuated from the Middle East in three years, how many were from UP?

Answer (b) & explanation

MEA (Parliament reply).

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Official source: MEA: LS Q181 Evacuation from Middle East, 12 Dec 2025

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