 "Stranded Indian nationals arrive to board a special Air India flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for Kochi, in Paris")
Over 1.12 million Indians have returned 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.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the bilateral air bubbles arrangements with US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, UAE, Qatar and Maldives are functioning well.
An air bubble is a bilateral arrangement with a set of regulations and restrictions in which the carriers of the two countries can operate international flights.
Referring to an announcement by the Minister of Civil Aviation earlier this week, Srivastava
