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TopicVande Bharat Mission

Topic: Vande Bharat Mission

India to operate first Vande Bharat Mission flight to Wuhan on 30 October

This will be the sixth Vande Bharat flight by Air India to China to help Indians stranded in both the countries to travel back to their destinations.

India plans international air ‘bubbles’ after US restricts Air India’s Vande Bharat flights

Air bubbles are unique accords between two cities that agree on precautions to prevent the spread of Covid across borders.

India to fly back Bengal residents from Dhaka, days after Centre-state spat over evacuation

A total of 169 Indians are returning by an Air India flight to Kolkata on 18 May under the Vande Bharat Mission

Stranded abroad but not part of Vande Bharat mission — why these Indians feel ‘abandoned’

Overseas Citizens of India card holders are allowed a multiple-entry, multipurpose lifelong visa but Modi govt suspended the privileges in March prior to the lockdown.

In era of social distancing, India’s Ministry of External Affairs must reimagine diplomacy

How do you win over the other at a time of gesture-less screen-presence? The MEA is becoming more about partnership and less about loud leadership.

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.

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Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.