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The unexpected crook of events successful West Asia pursuing the stand-off involving Iran, Israel, and the United States has near Kerala students who are stranded determination anxious astir returning successful clip for their semester examinations.
Parents backmost home, disquieted some astir their children’s information and world future, are scouring portals for formation tickets, portion making panic-stricken calls to colleges for reassurance. Some institutions, including a reputed engineering assemblage successful Ernakulam, person issued letters certifying that examinations of their students stranded successful Dubai are scheduled aboriginal this month, requesting airlines to accord them precedence for tickets.
Rohith M.P., a final-year Computer Science and Business Systems pupil astatine a premier autonomous institute successful Kochi, has his final-semester examinations opening connected March 24 and an interior trial connected Monday (March 9, 2026). On a sojourn to Dubai, helium was scheduled to instrumentality connected March 5, but his formation was cancelled by the hose successful the aftermath of escalating tensions successful the UAE.
After a frantic hunt for tickets, which proved elusive arsenic airports successful the portion either remained closed oregon operated constricted services, his begetter yet managed to publication a spot for a tiny luck of ₹50,000 from Sharjah to Kozhikode. He took a cab from Dubai to Sharjah connected the eve of formation and flew retired and reached returned location connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) morning.
“We were lasting successful beforehand of Burj Khalifa connected the nighttime of February 28 erstwhile sirens went off. Before we could realise what was happening, a clump of drones appeared, which I americium not definite were meant for surveillance earlier an imminent onslaught oregon portion of the defence system. Soon after, we received an alert connected our phones to determination to the information of indoors, and past we saw what we were to soon realise was a missile,” said Rohith. His friends Joseph Kurian George and Joel Biju besides returned connected Saturday.
That formation operations person progressively improved since the onset of tensions has travel arsenic a alleviation though.
Ciza Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU), however, said the assemblage has not yet travel crossed cases of stranded students successful West Asia. Except for final-year students who mightiness beryllium distant for projects, others are improbable to beryllium affected since they would beryllium attending regular classes, she said.
Ms. Thomas added that successful the lawsuit of autonomous institutions, managements person the authorization to behaviour re-tests for students incapable to instrumentality successful clip for examinations.
