Emirates Airlines to operate special flights to 5 Indian cities between Aug 21-30
New Delhi: Emirates Airlines will now operate special repatriation flights to five Indian cities between August 20 – 31 to repatriate Indian citizens stranded in UAE and wishing to come back home. The Airlines will operate flights to Bengaluru, Kochi, Delhi, Mumbai, and Thiruvananthapuram.
The flights will also facilitate residents of UAE stranded in India to return to the UAE.
It will operate four flights to Bengaluru during the period with one each flight on August 21, 23, 25, and 30.
Kochi: August 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 31 (Flights from Kochi to Dubai will operate on August 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, and September 1.)
Thiruvananthapuram: August 26 (Flights from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai will operate on August 27.
Apart from this, it will operate daily flights to Mumbai and Delhi till August 31.
Passengers must meet all the entry requirements of the destination to be allowed to board the flights. Tickets of the flight can be booked on the Emirates website or via travel agents.
Flights will be available for UAE nationals and residents with prior entry approval from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs (GDFRA) for residents of Dubai and ICA approval for residents of other emirates of the UAE, and whose final destination is the UAE.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
