India, May 7 -- A civil defence mock drill will be conducted at 244 districts across India on Wednesday, May 7 in line with the directions of the ministry of home affairs (MHA), the first such exercise in decades, hours after India's airstrikes on nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

India conducted targeted military strikes against Pakistan-based terrorist groups in widely expected tit-for-tat blows after a terror attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 people.

India said in a statement early on Wednesday that it conducted "a precise and restrained response" that was "designed to be non-escalatory in nature." It said that it only targeted "known terror camps" and hit no Pakistani civilian, econom...