Mumbai News LIVE Updates: 84 Pune university students, 20 seniors flown back to Mumbai on chartered flight

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: A total of 84 university students from Pune, and more than 20 senior citizens who were stranded in Dubai, have been brought back to Mumbai on a chartered flight. Follow LIVE updates here

Updated on : 05 March,2026 08:51 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

Students from Indira University, Pune, brought back on the special flight

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Nerve-wracking and scary, Rochelle Rao shares experience of returning to Mumbai from Dubai amid West Asia tensions

Rochelle Rao, former Miss India and TV presenter hopped on an evacuation flight to Mumbai with her husband and daughter on Wednesday. She states it was the only flight from Dubai at that point. “The airport was practically shut. I was amazed at how the staff was functioning like it was any other day, even if it was just for one flight. It wasn’t like a refugee situation,” she shared.

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Kandivli family mourns as Mumbai seafarer killed in missile strike on tanker MKD Vyom in Strait of Hormuz

The Solanki family in Kandivili is grappling with unimaginable grief after learning that their son, Dixit Amritlal Solanki, 33, was killed aboard the tanker MKD Vyom, allegedly struck by a missile on March 1 while carrying about 59,000 metric tonnes of gasoline.

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: West Asia conflict forces Mumbai travellers on long detour via Doha, Istanbul, Tashkent, Delhi

Siddartha Mukerjee, his wife Aysha, and daughter Anika had left India for the US on February 14 and were to depart from there on February 27. Their return itinerary included a journey from Hawaii to Seattle, Washington, followed by a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, from where they were to fly to Mumbai. The traumatised Mukerjee family of three was forced to take a long detour via Doha, Istanbul, Tashkent, Delhi on their way back home from a US holiday, shelling out an extra Rs 4 lakh, too, all because of the West Asia disruptions

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Licensed moneylenders will lose license if found charging exorbitant interest rates, says CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said strict action will be taken against licensed money-lenders who charge interest rates higher than the prescribed norms, and their licences will also be revoked. (PTI)

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