Dammam: A chartered flight arranged by SAQCO Contracting Company in Saudi Arabia, took off from Dammam International Airport with stranded Kannadigas who were stuck in Saudi Arabia due to COVID-19 lockdown. The flight is expected to touchdown at the Mangaluru International Airport on Wednesday.

The flight with 175 passengers took off from the Dammam International Airport at 5:40 pm (KSA time).

SAQCO’s Directors Althaf Ullal and Basheer Sagar informed Vartha Bharati that all the legal procedures were carried out smoothly before the flight took off from Dammam for Mangaluru.

The duo also informed that no staff or official of SAQCO were traveling on the chartered flight and that it was arranged only for the stranded Kannadigas. The cost of traveling, institutional quarantine, and COVID-19 tests will be borne by the SAQCO Company.

SAQCO had established a desk to finalize the list of passengers who will be traveling on the flight to Mangaluru on Wednesday. The company added priority was given to pregnant women, the senior citizens who had come to the kingdom on visit visas, people with medical emergencies, people who had lost jobs, and those who had reported deaths in their families.

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Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump cares deeply about the US-India relationship, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Tuesday after meeting Trump at the White House.

“Back in the US for a few days. First stop, meeting with our GREAT President in the White House. The President deeply cares about the relationship between the US and India,” Gor said in a post on X on Tuesday evening.

Gor also posted a photograph of himself with Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office.

Gor assumed the office of the US Ambassador to India in January this year. Earlier, he served as the Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.

Gor also serves as the US Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs.