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Bangladesh unrest: Air India operates night flights; presents one-time rescheduling waiver

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Amid the continuing violence, Air India has announced that its night flights AI237 and AI238 on the Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi route will feature on Tuesday (Aug 6). The firm shall be offering a one-time waiver for rescheduling flights.

The tensions in Bangladesh are on the upward thrust after ousted feeble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who resigned on Monday (Aug 5) fled the nation amid lethal protests.

Amid the continuing violence, Air India has announced that its night flights AI237 and AI238 on the Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi route will feature on Tuesday (Aug 6). The firm shall be offering a one-time waiver for rescheduling flights.

“As a result of the prevailing peril in Dhaka, Air India is offering a one-time waiver on rescheduling to potentialities, with confirmed bookings on any Air India flight to and from Dhaka between 4th and seventh August 2024, within the occasion that they desire to enact so,” acknowledged Air India in a post on X (beforehand Twitter).

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“The tickets would have to be booked on or forward of 5th August. We would desire to reiterate that at Air India, the safety of our potentialities and crew remains top priority. For extra data, please join with our Contact Centre at 011 69329333, 011 69329999 or talk over with our net site http://airindia.com,” it added.

On Monday, Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year tenure as Bangladesh’s top minister got right here to an slay when she fled the nation amid a month of intense protests. The navy has announced plans to region up an meantime authorities.

Since early July, Hasina had been trying to manipulate frequent protests against her administration. Nonetheless, following violent clashes on Sunday that resulted in almost 100 fatalities, she left Bangladesh.

Her exit got right here after protests that started over job quotas but escalated into frequent calls for her resignation, inflicting a total bunch of deaths.

In his handle to the Rajya Sabha, India’s Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar acknowledged, “Within the final 24 hours, we bear now also been in habitual contact with the authorities in Dhaka. This is the peril as of now. I gape the thought and enhance of the Dwelling in regard to refined concerns regarding a truly valuable neighbour on which there has consistently been a formidable nationwide consensus.”

(With inputs from agencies)

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