The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a crucial directive to all states and Union Territories, emphasising the need to enhance civil defence mechanisms.
UN ceasefire monitors in Kashmir and in the Pakistan-occupied area are safe and accounted for after the Indian missile strikes on "terror infrastructure" and the Pakistan shelling, according to a UN spokesperson.
Ten of his family members were killed in Indian strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.
India is believed to have told friendly nations that it did not want to escalate the situation after carrying out missile attacks on terrorists' hideouts in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), but is ready to retaliate if the neighbouring country decides to escalate.
World leaders on Wednesday urged both India and Pakistan to exercise calm and maximum restraint in the wake of Operation Sindoor carried out by Indian armed forces targeting terror camps in Pakistan and PoJK.
Israel has extended its support to India's right to defend itself from terrorism as Indian armed forces carried out 'Operation Sindoor' against nine high-value terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
India has exercised its right to respond to dastardly acts of terror emanating from the neighbouring nation, the government said on Wednesday, hours after Indian armed forces destroyed terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
In order to boost preparedness against a 'hostile attack', 30 places in West Bengal are set for a civil defence mock drill on Wednesday.
The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have started evacuating people from villages in the border areas to safe locations following Wednesday's indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan Army.
Domestic carriers on Wednesday cancelled or delayed several flights to and from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Himachal Pradesh after the Indian Army successfully executed ‘Operation Sindoor’, hitting nine high-value terror targets deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
