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Vande Bharat Mission: Over 700 Indians return home; more flights on Day 7

Air India along with its subsidiary Air India Express are operating a total of 64 flights to 12 countries to repatriate 14,800 Indians back in the first phase

Passengers onboard the Singapore-Mumbai flight, Vande Bharat Mission
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Passengers onboard the Singapore-Mumbai flight, which landed on Monday. So far, around 4,000 Indians have been brought back under the Vande Bharat Mission. Photo: Twitter

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
Under the Vande Bharat Mission, Air India's repatriation flight AI-1377, carrying 225 passengers from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia arrived at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport early on Wednesday. The evacuation operation is part of the country's largest-ever initiative to bring back Indian nationals amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Similarly, an Air India repatriation flight carrying 169 medical students from Dhaka in Bangladesh reached Srinagar on Tuesday. 

"Indian Embassy in Bangladesh and Indian Govt helped us a lot. We are happy to be back. We are thankful to the Indian Government," one of the medical students said. Ministry of Civil Aviation had said