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Mint
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
'India's sovereignty is unshaken': BSF as it retaliates to Pakistan's unprovoked firing
Border Security Force(BSF) Jammu said that on May 9, Pakistan opened fire on its posts in Jammu. In retaliation, BSF inflicted significant damage on Pakistan Rangers' assets while reaffirming their commitment to India's sovereignty. BSF Jammu said in a post on X, 'On 09 May 2025, from about 2100 hrs, Pakistan opened fire on BSF posts in the Jammu sector without any provocation. BSF is responding in a commensurate manner causing widespread damage to posts and assets of Pakistan Rangers along the International Boundary. Our resolve to protect India's sovereignty is unshaken.' ' The terrorist launch pad at Looni, district Sialkot opposite Akhnoor area was completely destroyed by the BSF. Our resolve to protect India's sovereignty is unshaken,' the BSF Jammu said. On Friday night, India thwarted a wave of drone attacks from Pakistan at 26 locations across the northern and western regions, including a strike near Srinagar airport. Authorities accused Islamabad of dangerously using civilian aircraft as cover for its aerial operations, putting passenger flights at risk. According to the Indian government, between 300 and 400 Turkish-made drones were launched across 36 locations—from Leh to Sir Creek—in a failed bid to strike Indian military installations on Thursday night. Earlier on Thursday night, BSF said it had foiled an infiltration bid from across the Indo-Pak International Border in Jammu, killing at least seven terrorists and destroying a Rangers post. This infiltration bid was supported by fire from the Pakistan Rangers post Dhandhar, a BSF spokesperson said. Two more people were killed after Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling in areas near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. With this, the death toll due to shelling from across the LoC in recent days rose to 18. In a communication to the chief secretaries of all states and Union territories, Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards Vivek Srivastava said preparing the civil administration and adopting precautionary measures against hostile attacks in the states and Union territories are governed by the Civil Defence Act and Rules, 1968 The Centre also empowered the Army Chief to call out "every officer and every enrolled person" of the Territorial Army (TA) to provide for essential guard or to be embodied to support or supplement the regular Army.
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Business Standard
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Centre urges states to grant emergency buying powers to civil defence teams
In view of an ongoing military conflict between India and Pakistan, the Centre has asked all states to give emergency procurement power to the heads of the civil defence authorities so that they can make the required purchases in case of an emergency situation. In a communication to the chief secretaries of all states and Union territories, Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards Vivek Srivastava said preparing the civil administration and adopting precautionary measures against hostile attacks in the states and Union territories are governed by the Civil Defence Act and Rules, 1968. Citing the current hostile-attack scenario, the attention of the chief secretaries was drawn to section 11 of the Civil Defence Rules, 1968 that empowers the states to take certain measures deemed necessary for the protection of people and properties from injury or damage or for ensuring the due maintenance of vital services in the event of a hostile attack. The communication said the funds of the local authority shall be applicable to the payment of the charges and expenses incidental to such compliance, and priority shall be given to such compliance over all other duties and obligations of the local authority. "I shall be grateful if section 11 of the CD (Civil Defence) Rules, 1968, can be invoked and necessary emergency procurement powers to the director civil defence of your state/UT may be granted so that efficient implementation of the necessary precautionary measures can be implemented," the communication said. There has been a rising military conflict between the two neighbouring countries following India's strikes on multiple locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Wednesday and Pakistan's attempts to hit Indian military sites on Thursday, which were thwarted by the Indian armed forces. The Indian strikes were carried out in the wake of the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed.
