A flight carrying 290 Indian students, mostly from Jammu and Kashmir, landed in Delhi late Friday night after Iran lifted its airspace restrictions today for India’s ‘Operation Sindhu’. The country opened its airspace, in a special gesture, for three flights to evacuate about 1,000 Indians. This was the first of the three flights.The Indians were moved to Mashhad from Tehran following Israeli attacks. The evacuation flights were being operated by Iranian airline Mahan and were arranged by New Delhi.
Thousands of Indian students, most of them from Jammu and Kashmir, are stranded in Iran.
Operation Sindhu’ was launched on Wednesday to bring back its nationals from Iran and Israel amid the rising hostilities between the longtime enemies.