Not anxious any more: Indians return home as conflict intensifies in Middle East
India Today
The Middle East is home to a huge Indian diaspora population. As such, the disruption to flight services in the region has had a particularly distressing impact on Indian travellers.
The Middle East has been engulfed in a rapidly evolving armed conflict ever since a wave of coordinated airstrikes by Israel and the US took out Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ongoing hostilities have significantly disrupted air travel within and through the region.
Dubai, which hosts the busiest international airport in the world and is a major global transit hub, falls in the Middle East and has been directly impacted by Iran's retaliation to the joint US-Israeli offensive.
The Middle East is home to a huge Indian diaspora population. As such, the disruption to flight services in the region has had a particularly distressing impact on Indian travellers.
A considerable number of Indians have been stranded in Gulf countries, especially the UAE, since the conflict triggered airspace closures across the region.
Several of them have returned to India since Monday (March 2), with most of them praising the governments of Dubai and the UAE for the manner in which the overall situation was handled.
Among them was businessman Praveen Kakkar, who landed in Indore while returning from Dubai. "The situation is tense there but the overall situation is stable...The government there is doing good work," he told reporters.
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