Etihad Airways to operate special flights from six Indian cities to Abu Dhabi between July 12-26
The six Indian cities include Bengaluru, Kochi, Chennai among others
New Delhi: Etihad Airways on Friday said it will operate a limited number of special flights from six Indian cities to Abu Dhabi in the UAE between July 12 and July 26 for eligible passengers.
"Eligible passengers include UAE nationals and residents as well as people with relevant UAE entry approvals from India. All passengers must have ICA approval from the government of Abu Dhabi before they travel and will not be permitted to check-in without the necessary approvals," the airline said in its press release.
ICA stands for the UAE's Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship. A person with a valid residency permit of the UAE needs to take ICA approval before taking any flight to enter that country.
The airline said it will operate services to Abu Dhabi from Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.
India suspended all scheduled international passenger flights on March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Many Indian nationals who have valid residence permits of the UAE and are currently in India have been complaining on social media for the last few weeks about the lack of flights between the two countries.
The Civil Aviation Ministry announced on Twitter on Thursday, "As part of the close strategic partnership between the governments of India and the UAE, and with a view to assisting UAE resident nationals who are at present in India to return to the UAE, the civil aviation authorities of both countries have agreed to operationalize the following arrangement from 12 July 2020."
Charter flights operated by UAE carriers will now be permitted to bring Indian citizens from the UAE to India and carry ''ICA-approved UAE residents'' on their return leg, the ministry said.
On India to UAE journeys, all these flights will carry only those passengers who are destined for the Gulf country, it noted.
The ministry also said, "Indian carriers operating repatriation flights to bring Indian citizens from UAE to India will be allowed to carry the ICA-approved UAE residents (returning to UAE from India) on the outward journey from India to UAE."
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'In Modi's two Indias, justice is dependent on wealth': Rahul Gandhi on Pune car accident
New Delhi, May 21: After public outrage over a rich juvenile getting bail after a Porsche car allegedly driven by him knocked down two persons in Pune, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "creating" two Indias where justice is "dependent on wealth".
"Narendra Modi is creating two Indias - where even justice is dependent on wealth," he said in a post in Hindi on X.
Gandhi also shared a video statement in his post where he said if a bus driver, truck driver, Ola or Uber driver kills someone by mistake, they are jailed for 10 years and their key is thrown away.
"But, if a 16-17 year old son of a rich family drives a Porsche car after getting drunk and kills two people, he is told to write an essay. Why don't you ask the bus driver or truck driver to write an essay. Why don't they ask the Uber or auto driver to write it," he asked.
"When Narendra Modi was asked that two Indias are being created - one of the rich billionaires and the other of the poor, he replies saying does he make everyone poor.
"The question is not this, but of justice. Both the rich and the poor should get justice. Justice should be the same for everyone. That is why we are fighting against injustice," Gandhi said in his video.
Gandhi was referring to the accident that took place in Pune in the early hours of Sunday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis have instructed for stringent action in the case of a car accident allegedly involving a 17-year-old boy that killed two persons, Pune police chief said on Tuesday.
The Porsche car, allegedly driven by the juvenile, who the police claim was drunk at the time, knocked down two motorbike riders in the Kalyani Nagar area of Pune city in the early hours of Sunday, causing their deaths, as per officials.
The police have detained the boy's father, who is a real estate developer, and arrested three executives of two hotels for serving liquor to the juvenile, they said.
The accused teenager was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board which granted him bail.
The Madhya Pradesh-based parents of the victims of the car accident in Maharashtra's Pune have also sought stringent punishment for the accused boy as well as his parents, accusing them of being responsible for the death of their children.
The two deceased - Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals and hailing from Madhya Pradesh - died on Sunday after the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a speeding Porsche car in Pune. While Ashwini hailed from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, Anish came from Birsinghpur Pali in Umaria district of the state.
नरेंद्र मोदी दो हिंदुस्तान बना रहे हैं - जहां न्याय भी दौलत का मोहताज है। pic.twitter.com/uuJHvDdeRD
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 21, 2024
