As part of Operation Sindhu, three charter flights – two from Iran’s Mashhad and one from Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat – have successfully brought back 827 Indian nationals so far.

A man was sprawled on a chair with his legs up on the table, sleeping soundly and snoring – there would have been nothing unusual about this except for the fact that it was captured at a school in Maharashtra and the man in question is a teacher.

Air India on Saturday said it has started releasing the interim compensation of Rs 25 lakh each to the families of the victims and survivors of the June 12 plane crash.