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500 Karnataka students returned from Ukraine

Five Medical students from Dakshina Kannada, who returned to Mangaluru on Monday from war-torn Ukraine, shared their experience with Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra and thanked the latter for his assistance in safe passage to India (Source: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT)

A total of 500 students who were stranded in different parts of war-torn Ukraine have made it back to their homes in Karnataka.

Manoj Rajan, nodal officer and commissioner, Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority, who has been monitoring efforts to bring back the stranded students, said that 500 students have come back in 54 flights that were part of “Operation Ganga” of the Ministry of External Affairs. Of the 54 flights to India, 44 were from Delhi and 10 from Mumbai, he said.

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