During the drills, air raid warning sirens will be activated while civilians and students will be trained in civil defence to ...

Sixty air raid sirens will blare across Delhi at around 4pm on Wednesday, signalling the start of “Operation Abhyaas”, a ...

A civil defence mock drill will be conducted at 16 locations across 10 districts in Maharashtra on May 7 in line with the directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), officials said on Tuesday, ...

On mock drills to be held on May 7, former Puducherry LG and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi said, "It's a cause for not to ...

More than 10,000 volunteers of civil defence, National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets and Home Guard volunteers will participate in ...

"The NCP has agreed to the NCC's recommendations to adopt electoral college system to elect the president and introduce a bicameral legislature," NCP's Reform Coordination Committee head Sarwar Tusher ...

The training incorporates measures for planned blackouts, known as crash blackout measures, designed to protect against ...

New Delhi: Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan will on Tuesday review the preparations for strengthening civil defence mechanisms that include conducting mock drills on air-raid warning sirens, training ...

The order to conduct the mock drill came after a series of high-level meetings by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi to ...

New Delhi: Amid the volatile, unpredictable situation and tension between India and Pakistan following the April 22 Pahalgam ...

While officials have emphasised that this drill is not an indication of imminent conflict, it represents a proactive approach ...

India gears up for its first nationwide civil defence mock drill since 1971 on May 7, 2025, with blackout simulations and air raid sirens to test civilian readiness amid rising tensions with Pakistan.