Pune, March 1 -- Eighty-four MBA students and four faculty members from a Pune-based institute were stranded in Dubai due to airspace closures triggered by the conflict in West Asia, the institute said on Sunday.
The students of the Indira School of Business Studies (ISBS) had gone to Dubai as part of an annual five-day study tour. They were safe and had been shifted to a hotel in Bur Dubai, ISBS officials said.
While 40 students were scheduled to return to Pune on Saturday, the remaining 44 were to board a flight on Sunday. However, due to the West Asia conflict and the subsequent closure of airspace, they could not travel, the officials said.
The university administration is in continuous coordination with concerned government authorit...