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"India had evacuated close to 1,00,000 [my emphasis] of its nationals after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990". This sentence appears in the lede. I think there is either a comma too many; it should read as one hundred thousand, or more improbably, it should read as one million. I don't think it is the latter because to move that number of people would need more than three thousand Boeing 747s! (assuming each 'Jumbo Jet' could carry 300 passengers). I am also wary of the former (100,000) because one would still need at least 300 flights.
The best thing to do is delete the sentence.

While I am on the subject of numbers, according to the 'Sify' reference, "Libya is home to 18,000 Indian citizens". Nowhere can I find anything about these 18,000 people being "trapped", which is what the article says. Its getting very close to OR.
A less emotive word might be a better fit, but I'm blowed if I can think of one. (its been a long day.)

RASAM (talk) 21:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This being an Indian article the numbering system is in lakhs crore format so number is correct. Regarding the figure you are right on the number of flights for evacuating 1,00,000 people. Apparently this is a Guinness world record. List of mass evacuations --PremKudva^Talk 06:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added references.--PremKudva^Talk 07:12, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Premkudva, thanks for attempting to explain, but I still don't understand the total given or what "lakhs crore" format is for that matter. You'll have to spell it out for me, (and, I suspect, many others); does it mean one million, one hundred thousand or something else? RASAM (talk) 20:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If I may step in to help: One Lakh = 100,000. One Crore = 100 Lakhs (10,000,000 or 10 million). Chocolate Horlicks (talk) 17:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]