'leave Stands Cancelled': Health Ministry Directs Officers To Resume duties Immediately

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a information connected Friday stating that nary time off of immoderate benignant would beryllium granted to officers, isolated from connected aesculapian grounds, owed to nan ongoing information situation. The directive is aimed astatine ensuring maximum operational readiness arsenic India faces increasing tensions pinch Pakistan.

"In position of nan impending situation, nary time off of immoderate kind, including position leave, is to beryllium granted to immoderate serviceman isolated from connected aesculapian grounds, till further orders. Further, nan already sanctioned leave, if any, stands cancelled and nan officers who are connected time off are directed to resume their duties immediately," nan information read.

This move comes arsenic portion of India's heightened alert position pursuing subject confrontations pinch Pakistan. Earlier, nan cardinal authorities empowered nan Army Chief to telephone retired each serviceman and enrolled personification of nan Territorial Army to support nan regular Army, further escalating nan information measures.

Earlier this evening, nan MEA informed that Pakistan utilized Turkish Asisguard Songar drones to target 36 locations successful India connected May 8 nighttime but grounded successful its attempt.  Addressing nan media, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi said that connected nan nighttime of May 7 and 8, nan Pakistani service violated Indian airspace respective times complete nan full occidental separator pinch nan volition of targeting subject infrastructure. "Not only this, nan Pakistani service besides fired dense caliber weapons on nan Line of Control."

"Around 300 to 400 drones were utilized to effort infiltration astatine 36 locations. The Indian equipped forces changeable down galore of these drones utilizing kinetic and non-kinetic means," she added. "The imaginable intent of specified large-scale aerial intrusions was to trial aerial defence systems and cod intelligence. Forensic investigation of nan wreckage of nan drones is being done. Initial reports propose that they are Turkish Asisguard Songar drones."

Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said that successful consequence to nan Pakistani attack, equipped drones were launched astatine 4 aerial defence sites successful Pakistan. "One of nan drones was capable to destruct an AD (air defence) radar."
 

Published on: May 9, 2025 7:25 PM IST