Aviation – The Singapore Post

Under the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’, India has been successful in bringing back home 1, 25,000 of its people from different countries until now, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on June 24."Vande Bharat continues to be a mission of hope and happiness for stranded and distressed Indians around the world. So far, nearly 125K Indians have come back on these evacuation flights and nearly 43K have flown out of India. On June 23, 6,037 people returned from different countries," Puri said in a tweet.As many as 2,50,087 Indian nationals stranded abroad have been repatriated since the beginning of Vande Bharat Mission last month, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.The government started the mission on May 6 to help stranded people reach their destinations u

In a startling revelation, Pakistan’s Aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar has said that around 40 per cent of the pilots in Pakistan have fake flying licenses.This revelation came when Sarwar was presenting a provisional inquiry report in the National Assembly of Pakistan about the recent PIA plane crash in Karachi.“Pakistan has 860 active pilots, which includes PIA, Serene Air and Air Blue pilots as well. The inquiry which was initiated in February 2019 showed that 262 pilots did not give the exam themselves and asked someone else to sit for exam on their behalf,” the minister said.He said they have found out during the investigations that pilots with ‘fake’ licenses did not even have proper flying experience. The 40 per cent 'fake' license holders also include hundreds of pilots who are not

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Nearly 1.25 lakh Indians returned from overseas under Vande Bharat Mission: Aviation Minister

Around 40% pilots in Pakistan have ‘fake’ flying licenses, says aviation minister

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