Mumbai Live News and Updates: As parts of Mumbai experienced power outages, Maharashtra energy department’s principal secretary Dinesh Waghmare said that the Mulund-Trombay line has tripped and work is on to locate the fault.
Meanwhile, elated and relieved, 219 Indians, mostly students studying medicine in Ukraine, stepped off the Air India aircraft that flew them home from Bucharest in Romania — the first batch of Indian nationals evacuated Saturday under Operation Ganga after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A second flight, carrying 250 Indians landed in Delhi.
Indian nationals who reached the Ukraine-Romania border and Ukraine-Hungary border were taken to Bucharest and Budapest by road respectively by Indian government officials so that they can be evacuated in these Air India flights. The government is not charging the rescued passengers for the evacuation flights, the officials said. Around 16,000 Indians, mainly students, were stranded in Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had said on February 24.
Mumbai News Live: Indian nationals are being evacuated under Operation Ganga after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; Follow this space for Latest Updates
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-news-live-bmc-ukraine-flight-airport-covid-19-7792767/
