India, May 12 -- Indian PM Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 pm on Monday evening amid the ceasefire reached between India and Pakistan following four days of escalation in tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

This is the first time Modi will address the countrymen amid the recent escalation following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which left 26 people, mostly non-Muslims, dead, and the subsequent response by the India Armed Forces on May 7 when nine terror bases located in PoK and Pakistan were targeted. The Indian Armed Forces had named it 'Operation Sindoor'.

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