Ministry of Home Affairs asks several states to conduct mock drills to prepare for any attack

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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)

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• 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".