Eighty-four MBA students from a Pune-based institute were stranded in Dubai after airspace closures triggered by the conflict in West Asia, the institute said on Sunday (March 1, 2026).
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 shifted to a hotel, ISBS officials said.
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While 40 students were scheduled to return to Pune on Saturday (February 28, 2026), the remaining 44 were to board a flight on Sunday (March 1, 2026). However, due to the West Asia conflict and the subsequent closure of airspace, they could not travel, the officials said.
"All are safe and have been moved to a hotel," ISBS Dean Janardhan Pawar said.
