Mission brings them home from 137 countries in less than two months, 94,085 return to Kerala alone
This number includes more than 90,000 Indians who have returned through land border immigration checkpoints from Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh
Aaditya Thackeray has said Civil Aviation Ministry should coordinate with state govts on repatriation flights under Vande Bharat Mission for effectively reaching out to Indians stranded around world.
After being stranded in the US for over two months, he finally came back to India under the government's national repatriation scheme. Abhishek Waghmare gives a first-person account of the experience
These 170 chartered flights under the fourth phase are scheduled to be operated between July 3 and 15
Two separate flights from the UAE and Kyrgyzstan landed here on Thursday, bringing back 306 Indians stranded in these countries due to the COVID-19 outbreak, officials said.
Over 3.6 lakh Indians have returned to India from abroad after the government launched the ''Vande Bharat'' evacuation mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said a total number of 5,13,047 Indians have registered their request with Indian missions abroad for repatriation to India on compelling grounds. Of the people who have registered, 3,64,209 have returned under this Mission as of today, he said. Repatriations from neighbouring countries have also been happening through land borders, he added. "More than 84,000 Indians have returned through land border immigration checkpoints from Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh," the MEA spokesperson said. "In the first three phases of the Vande Bharat Mission, around 875 international flights were scheduled for operation from over 50 countries across five continents. So far, more than 700 of these flights have reached India
On June 11, INS Shardul had brought back 233 Indians from Iran
Curbs come amid growing pressure on Indian govt to allow foreign airlines to carry passengers from India
The next Air India special flight from Colombo to Delhi, Lucknow and Gaya is scheduled on June 22
In the phase three of the mission, the airline will operate 300 flights to North America and Europe from June 9 to June 30, 2020
India had launched the largest evacuation exercise to repatriate Indians stranded abroad due to coronavirus-induced lockdown
First repatriation flight from Muscat, Oman, under Vande Bharat Mission of the second phase, landed at Cochin International Airport on Saturday with 177 passengers
Vande Bharat Mission, which started on May 7 to bring back stranded Indian nationals back home from other countries, initiated its second phase of the operation from Saturday
Accordingly, the airline will run these special ferry flights during the second phase of the repatriation mission
Air India will operate 7 flights to bring back countrymen from the United States
Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express operated a total of 14 flights on Tuesday to bring back Indians under the Vande Bharat Mission and for travel of foreigners amid the lockdown
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On day two of repatriation of stranded Indians from the US, Air India flight will take off from Newark to Mumbai and Ahmedabad on Sunday
India had on Monday announced it would begin a phased repatriation of its citizens stranded abroad starting May 7