Imphal, May 7 -- A comprehensive mock drill was conducted in Imphal on Wednesday as part of a nationwide initiative to assess emergency preparedness and response capabilities.

Mock drills are being carried out across major Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Gwalior, and Jaipur, to evaluate local response capabilities to security challenges.

This comes after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday instructed all states and union territories to carry out the drills to evaluate their preparedness against "new and complex threats."

The Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of Wednesday, targeting terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). T...