Today in Politics: Mock drills to be held across country amid rising tensions with Pakistan over Pahalgam terror attack

The other measures are provisions of crash blackout measures, early camouflaging of vital plants and installations and updation of evacuation plans and their rehearsal.

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.

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”.

Farmers to hold rail roko in Punjab

The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) has announced a statewide rail roko protest on Wednesday at the Devidas Pura railway station in Amritsar district along the Amritsar–Delhi railway line, to oppose alleged illegal and forceful acquisition of farmland in Punjab without fair compensation.

The call has come at a time when the border districts of Punjab are under high security alert and mock drills of blackouts have begun. Amritsar is a sensitive border disirct having Wagah border. Sarwan Singh Pandher, leader of KMSC said,” the call is for a day and whether to continue it ahead or not depends on the response of the administration.”

More protest points will be added on May 8 if things are not resolved well in time, warned Pandher.

Delhi HC to hear bail plea of Parliament breach accused

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday will hear the bail pleas of two accused arrested in the 2023 Parliament security breach case.

A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, before whom the bail pleas were listed for hearing on Tuesday, was informed by the prosecutor that an additional solicitor general has to argue on behalf of the prosecution and he was unavailable.

Accepting the request for adjournment on behalf of the prosecution, the court said it would hear on May 7 the bail pleas of Neelam Azad, the sole woman accused in the case, and Mahesh Kumawat.

The counsel for Azad opposed the adjournment request saying “it was a delaying tactic” and such a conduct was not good for the country.

The court, however, shot back saying, “enough, you have irritated us”.

– With PTI inputs