New Delhi, May 10 -- An air raid siren set off Friday as part of a drill in central Delhi's ITO perked many an ear in the vicinity and jolted a few out of their afternoon torpor. The civil defence directorate tested an air raid siren installed atop the multistorey PWD building in ITO for 10 to 15 minutes. Many in the neighbourhood said they had heard it for the first time.
"Around 3 pm, we heard a loud sound, which gradually became feeble. Although since yesterday I have been seeing videos of sirens being blared in places where attacks happened, hearing it for real was a first-time experience," Namantullah, 21, who has a shop near the building, said.
"My grandfather used to tell me about the Kargil War or the 1971 Indo-Pak war. We could n...