On Google, India looks for ‘Operation Sindoor’, Pak gripped by Bahawalpur

Following India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’, which involved targeted and non-escalatory missile strikes on terror centres in Pakistan early Wednesday morning, the military action found an echo in online trends and search patterns, with a geographical variance in online searches.

Google Trends data showed that while ‘Operation Sindoor’ was the top trending term in India, with over 2 million searches, Pakistani cyberspace saw ‘Bahawalpur’ leading with over half a million searches.