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Eighty-four MBA students from a Pune-based institute were stranded successful Dubai aft airspace closures triggered by the struggle successful West Asia, the institute said connected Sunday (March 1, 2026).
The students of the Indira School of Business Studies (ISBS) had gone to Dubai arsenic portion of an yearly five-day survey tour. They were harmless and shifted to a hotel, ISBS officials said.
While 40 students were scheduled to instrumentality to Pune connected Saturday (February 28, 2026), the remaining 44 were to committee a formation connected Sunday (March 1, 2026). However, owed to the West Asia struggle and the consequent closure of airspace, they could not travel, the officials said.
"All are harmless and person been moved to a hotel," ISBS Dean Janardhan Pawar said.
The MBA students and unit went to Dubai arsenic portion of a survey visit. However, the airspace was closed and arsenic a effect they were stranded, Indira Group of Institutes Chairperson Tarita Shankar said.
"All students and the unit are safe. We are successful changeless interaction with them. We are besides coordinating with the Ministry of External Affairs arsenic good arsenic with the Ministry of Civil Aviation. They volition beryllium brought backmost astatine the earliest," she said.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed successful an onslaught by Israel and the United States, Iranian authorities media confirmed aboriginal Sunday (March 1, 2026).
Flights crossed the Middle East were disrupted, and aerial defence occurrence thudded implicit Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' commercialized capital, it said.
