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Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the gathering
during an event to unveil a statue and naming of a road and rotary in the
memory of Upendra Nath Brahma, the patriarch of Assam's Bodo community, at
Kailash Colony area, in New Delhi, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (PTI Photo)
- NEW DELHI — The Union Home Ministry has asked several states to conduct mock
drills on May 7 amid rising tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam
terror attack, government sources said on Monday.
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- The measures to be taken during the drill include
operationalisation of air raid warning sirens and training of civilians on
civil defence aspects to protect themselves in the event of a "hostile
attack", they said.
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- The other measures are provisions of crash blackout
measures, early camouflaging of vital plants and installations and updation of
evacuation plans and their rehearsal.
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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been holding a series of
high-level meetings, including with top defence functionaries, as India weighs
its options for countermeasures against the April 22 terror attack which left
26 civilians, mostly tourists, dead.
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- Modi has vowed to pursue the perpetrators and those part
of the conspiracy to the "ends of the earth" to inflict punishment on
them "beyond their imagination".
