India, March 4 -- Around 160 people from Maharashtra, including 84 students stranded in Dubai amid the US-Iran war, arrived in Mumbai on two chartered flights late on Tuesday. The students, most of them from Indira University in Pune, along with three faculty members, were flown in on two Embraer aircraft of Star Air.

The arrangements were made by deputy chief minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde, whose party reached out to the students and to tourists anxious to get back home as the war in West Asia escalates. The flights were among several being operated under tense conditions to bring back Indians stuck in the Middle East.

The students who returned on Tuesday were in Dubai on a five-day "international immersion programme" and w...