<span style="color: #222222;">Indian Navy Ship INS Jalashwa is set to sail tonight from Colombo port in Sri Lanka carrying around 680 Indian nationals back to Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. The ship will reach Tuticorin tomorrow morning. <br />''<br />''This is the first voyage as part of operation Samudra Setu from Sri Lanka to repatriate Indian citizens as part of Vande Bharat Mission. Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay thanked Sri Lankan Government and authorities for their support in repatriation.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This is the first major evacuation exercise from neighbouring Sri Lanka where around 1,700 Indian nationals have registered for repatriation. Earlier, an Air India flight had left for Mumbai last Friday while two other flights are scheduled later this month. Most of the passengers travelling by ship are from Tamilnadu while some are from Karnataka and Kerala. <br />''<br />''Most of them are small workers and businessmen who got stuck due to lockdown. Over 200 of them were based in Tamil-dominated Northern Province while 11 fishermen from Tamil Nadu are also among the returnees. These fishermen were arrested on poaching charges and were released in March but could not return to their families because of crisis.</span><br />''