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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicAir India

Topic: Air India

14,800 stranded Indians to return in phase 1 of Vande Bharat Mission, 30,000 in phase 2

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said 64 flights will be operated from 12 countries in phase 1, and 149 flights from 31 countries in phase two.

Air India repatriated 6,000 Indians in 31 flights in first 5 days of Vande Bharat Mission

Air India & Air India Express are scheduled to operate 64 flights between 7 and 14 May to bring in approximately 15,000 Indians stranded in 12 countries.

Air India seals headquarters for two days after employee tests positive for coronavirus

Air India will be conducting a thorough sanitisation after an employee posted at the Gurudwara Rakabganj Road building tested positive Monday.

5 Air India pilots test positive for coronavirus

The five pilots fly Boeing 787 planes and had operated cargo flights to China prior to 20 April.

First batch of 326 Indian nationals arrives in Mumbai from London

The airport authorities, in a statement on Saturday, said that the arriving passengers with symptoms will be moved to isolation centres.

First ‘Vande Bharat’ Air India flight from London takes off for Mumbai with 326 Indians

The flight marks the first of seven Air India routes organised by the Indian govt to repatriate Indians stranded overseas due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

Social media claims AI seated passengers without social distancing, but here’s the fact

A video showing passengers complain about expensive ticket fare and no social distancing is being widely shared on social media.

Three decades before Covid, India conducted the largest civilian evacuation in history

Over 1 lakh Indians were brought back from the Gulf over 63 days and via 488 Air India flights when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.

15,000 Indians stranded abroad to be brought back on ‘compelling grounds’

A total of 64 flights will be operated from 12 countries. Passengers would be charged Rs 50,000 each for London-Delhi flight & Rs 1 lakh from the US.

Air India opens bookings on select domestic routes from 4 May & international routes from 1 June

On 3 April, Air India had said it stopped bookings, both domestic and international, till the end of the month.

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Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.