Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 03:19am on 21 Jun 2025,Saturday India Global
A special charter flight carrying 290 Indian students—mostly from Jammu & Kashmir—landed in New Delhi late on June 20, 2025, under Operation Sindhu. Iran granted a temporary airspace exception, permitting three evacuation flights in response to the escalating Israel–Iran conflict . The students were first relocated to Mashhad from Tehran and flown on an Iranian airline arranged by Indian authorities . This mission forms part of a broader evacuation effort involving over 500 Indian nationals to date . Grateful yet shaken, many evacuees reported hearing missile strikes in Tehran before departing . India’s MEA affirmed ongoing evacuations via Turkmenistan and Armenia as the situation unfolds. (PC: X)
