Indians in the UAE who have registered for repatriation with the consulate or embassy will be able to purchase Air India Express flight tickets on July 3, as sales go live at 4pm.
Bookings to six South Indian cities will be available, including Madurai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli and Thiruvananthapuram.
There will be nine Air India Express flights operating from July 9 to July 14, the General Consulate of India said on its Twitter account on Friday.
The flights will depart from Sharjah and can be booked online, the airline's booking offices or through authorised travel agents.
About 130,000 Indian citizens have already left the UAE on charter and government-organised repatriation flights since May.
The total number of people who registered to return home with the Indian consulate and embassy has now surpassed 500,000.
This is the fourth phase of the Vande Bharat Mission – India’s largest repatriation operation.
Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
La Mer lowdown
La Mer beach is open from 10am until midnight, daily, and is located in Jumeirah 1, well after Kite Beach. Some restaurants, like Cupagahwa, are open from 8am for breakfast; most others start at noon. At the time of writing, we noticed that signs for Vicolo, an Italian eatery, and Kaftan, a Turkish restaurant, indicated that these two restaurants will be open soon, most likely this month. Parking is available, as well as a Dh100 all-day valet option or a Dh50 valet service if you’re just stopping by for a few hours.
