A Ukrainian woman holds photos of servicemen in captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Show more ...

The key activities of a mock drill primarily encompass the starting of air raid sirens, city blackout, sheltering of civilians, the execution of emergency team activities, and other activities ...

The drills will include blackout protocols, air raid siren tests, and mock evacuations to test coordination and response time across agencies. Simulated scenarios will involve drone or missile strikes ...

Air raid sirens will be sounded to alert participants and residents. Haryana is conducting the drills across all 22 districts to enhance its emergency response capabilities. The exercises will ...

In Punjab, complete blackout measures would be implementedin adjoining civilian vulnerable areas and vulnerable points, excluding emergency and critical services and air raid sirens would be ...

"When there's an air-raid alarm and the air-defense system is working, I shut the doors like that and sit inside for half an hour or a full hour. When there's no alarm, I keep the doors open," she ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

As soon as you hear the siren, stop whatever you’re doing outside and quickly go to the nearest safe place. Look for shelters like basements, underground car parks, or other areas marked as safe zones ...

activating the air raid siren; ensuring complete darkness and ensuring public safety and their property will be taken. Operation Sindoor targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan ...

A civil defence exercise will be undertaken on Saturday (May 31) in all districts of states and Union territories adjoining the western border — from Jammu and Kashmir to Gujarat — on how to face air ...

Punjab is all set to hold the second civil defence exercise “Operation Shield” on May 31 at 6pm. Initially, the civil defence drill across the border states of Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan ...

There is something distinctive and particularly nerve-jangling about this air raid siren, but you have to be an adult to detect it. Why do I say that? Well, every year Israel commemorates the ...