A total of 87,055 Indians have returned back home from Singapore since May last year as part of the Vande Bharat Mission repatriation flights, the Indian High Commission here has said
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday informed that more than 3.9 million people were facilitated international travel ever since the Vande Bharat Mission was launched.
The embassy said the "suspension" is a temporary measure that China has to adopt to deal with the current pandemic
The ministry had said last week that Indian carriers can operate a maximum of 60 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic passenger flights till February 24 next year
Besides the 19 Indians who tested positive, antibodies were found in the tests of 39 others, officials said
The move will enable foreign nationals to come to India for various purposes such as business, conferences, employment, studies and research
Those who are arriving from New Delhi has to undergo 14-day quarantine in the designated hotels
As many as 1.6 million Indians have returned from abroad after the government launched the ''Vande Bharat'' mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs said
An estimated 124,000 people have been repatriated under the sixth phase of the mission
The minister also gave a break up of the workers who returned from various countries with the maximum of them returning from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations
Air India earned a revenue of Rs 2556.60 crore from flights that have been operated under the Vande Bharat mission till August 31, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said
Fifty-five passengers, mostly Indians wanting to return homes, boarded the flight back to Delhi, officials of the Indian embassy here, who coordinated the flight, told PTI
The flights between NSC Bose International Airport here and Heathrow in London will operate twice a week from September 16 to October 24
A special Air India flight from Thailand departed for New Delhi on Tuesday, carrying 153 stranded Indians, under the Vande Bharat Mission
Earlier last month, the Ministry of External Affairs had said the phase 6 of the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate Indians stranded abroad due to COVID-19 pandemic will begin on September 1
The Telangana government has relaxed quarantine norms for international passengers arriving in Hyderabad by Vande Bharat or Air Transport Bubble flights.
The Centre announced Standard Operating Procedures for travel on Vande Bharat and Air Transport Bubble Flights for inbound and outbound travel
As part of Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, increase in indigenous content from the present level of 50 per cent to a higher level is being planned in the fresh rounds
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
Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong only if they have a Covid-19 negative certificate from a test done 72 hours prior to the journey