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The airspace over an area around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be closed for three hours on Saturday and Sunday to conduct planned military drills and weapon tests.
A Notam (Notice to Airmen) has announced that civilian aircraft would be barred from flying over the airspace following India’s plans to conduct drills and arms tests in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal for two days.
Therefore, flights to and from Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru will be 15-20 minutes longer in duration on May 24 and 25 from 7 am to 10 am.
According to the NOTAM, airspace restrictions will apply to a polygonal area surrounding the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with a maximum corridor length of 500 kilometres.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the country’s enemies have learnt what happens when ‘sindoor’ becomes gunpowder, and lauded India’s armed forces for creating such a trap that Pakistan was forced to go down on its knees.
In his first public address in Rajasthan after Operation Sindoor, which was launched in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, the prime minister slammed Pakistan and said in response to the attack on April 22, “we destroyed nine biggest terror hideouts in 22 minutes”.
“The world and the enemies of the country have seen what happens when ‘sindoor’ turns into ‘barood’ (gunpowder),” he said at the public meeting in Palana in Bikaner, which shares border with Pakistan.
Meanwhile, over 600 Pakistani drones were downed or repelled by the Indian Army’s air defence (AD) units, which were deployed along the western front during Operation Sindoor.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsAccording to a report by the Times of India, the army mobilised over 1,000 AD gun systems and 750 short—and medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems in double-quick time.
With inputs from agencies
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