<span style="color: #222222;">Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, India emerged as the pharmacy of the world during the COVID pandemic. The supply of medicines and vaccines, particularly to the Global South, earned enormous goodwill. In April this year, India and other Quad nations – US,  Australia and Japan – handed over two lakh made-in-India vaccine doses to Thailand under the grouping's vaccine partnership. In the recently held Quad Leaders' Summit in Tokyo, the Quad leaders praised India's vaccine diplomacy.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> <br />'' AIR Correspondent reports, India's helping hand during the trying times of COVID has been appreciated by many world leaders. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that India has supplied Covid vaccines to more than 150 countries at an affordable rate.<br />'' <br />''During the peak of the COVID pandemic, Vande Bharat Mission helped bring back around one crore 83 lakh stranded Indians in over 2 lakh 17 thousand flights. The government has also readily sprung into action to rescue its nationals successfully from war-hit nations, time and time again. Under Operation Ganga, over 22 thousand 500 Indians returned safely from Ukraine earlier this year. As part of Operation Raahat, over four thousand 700 Indians returned home safely from Yemen in 2015. </span><br />