NEW DELHI : Desperate times, they say, require desperate or at least out of the box measures. With the novel coronavirus stopping almost all types of travel in its tracks — especially airline travel between countries — Indian diplomats have had to adopt some novel means to reach their countries of posting.
India’s high commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay arrived in Colombo several weeks after he was freed from his duties as joint secretary in the prime minister’s office on an Indian Air Force special flight carrying some 12.5 tonnes of medicines for Sri Lanka.
India’s newly appointed Permanent Representative to the UN, TS Tirumurthy reached New York by an Air India flight that was to bring back Indians wishing to come back home from the