Narine's 81 off 39 balls guided Kolkata to 235-6 after they were invited to bat first in Lucknow's final home game
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As India's biggest-ever repatriation exercise to bring back its citizens stranded abroad gather steam, UAE expatriates from the Indian state of Odisha had managed to initiate and arrange the first ever direct flight from Dubai to Bhubaneswar in order to repatriate hundreds of Odias looking to get back to their home country amid the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
The flight carrying 151 Odias landed on Thursday.
Till date there has never been a direct flight from Dubai to Bhubaneswar, the state capital of Odisha, but keeping in mind the circumstances, the Odisha government on the advice of the Consulate General of India as well as the Odia community in the UAE, the exception has been made, Amiya Kumar Mishra, president of the Odisha Samaj UAE told exclusively to Khaleej Times.
The historic direct flight from Dubai to the capital and largest city of Odisha will take off from Dubai International Airport on May 14, Thursday carrying 179 Odias.
Pleased to welcome the 1st flight in to Odisha. AI Flt 1996 hs just landed in Bhubaneswar bringing back 151 Indians frm DubaiElaborating, Mishra said: "We at Odisha Samaj UAE initiated talks with the external affairs ministry in India, government of Odisha as well as the Indian Consulate in Dubai after realizing that there are over 300 Odias who were in dire straits due to the pandemic situation and were looking to head home. We are grateful to the chief minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik; Indian cabinet minister Dharmendra Pradhan who is currently the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and of Steel; Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and CG Vipul and his team from the Indian consulate in Dubai who at once took the matter seriously and arranged this first ever direct flight from Dubai to Bhubaneswar. For now only 179 Odias will be repatriated and for the rest we are still working on the request and logistics part of it."
Thank @airindiain @MoCA_GoI &Odisha Govt fr support& cooperation
Keep up the good work Team @cgidubai under CG Vipul @dpradhanbjp #VandeBharatMission
- Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) May 14, 2020
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