India, July 26 -- Chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan on Friday said that Operation Sindoor, India's direct military action against Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam terror strike, is still on, adding that the country's military readiness must always remain at a very high level.

Chauhan said there were no runners-up in war and any military must always be alert and operationally ready. "Our preparedness level has to be very high - 24X7, 365 days," he said at a seminar organised by the Centre for Air Power Studies.

India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7 and struck terror and military installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following the Pahalgam terror strike. Between the launch of th...