POLICE on Wednesday (30) launched a house-to-house verification drive in residential colonies near the Jammu airport, three days after an Indian Air Force (IAF) base there was targeted using drones. It was a first-of-a-kind Pakistan-backed terror attack using drones that left two personnel suffering minor injuries.
It was learned that during the drive that began from Peer Baba in the Chatta area in Jammu, police personnel collected details from residents, including their contact numbers. The air force also deployed an unmanned aerial vehicle fitted with camera that hovered over its base and nearby residential areas for several hours in the afternoon, officials said. They added that additional floodlights have been set up at the base. A team of the elite counter-terrorism unit National Security Guard also visited the base though it was not clear what action it took.
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Two bombs were dropped in the attacks that happened in the early hours of June 27. The explosions took place within a gap of six minutes and the first of them ripped of the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport which us manned by the air force. The second one happened on the ground.
The next day, alert personnel of the Indian army fired at more drones that were spotted over the brigade headquarters at the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak station and the army said a major threat was thwarted.
This photograph taken on April 28, 2026 shows a boy getting "thali", a sacred thread tied to his neck symbolising marriage to Hindu warrior god Aravan during the annual Koovagam transgender festival at the Koothandavar temple in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi district. For a few fleeting days each year, at the heart of the Koothandavar Temple where ostracised transgender community members from across India come to honour the Hindu deity Aravan, a tradition rooted in millennia-old Hindu texts -- and to enjoy a brief oasis of freedom.Getty Images
This photograph taken on April 29, 2026 shows a member of the transgender community mourning as a priest cuts the "thali", a sacred thread symbolising end of her marriage to Hindu warrior god Aravan during the annual Koovagam transgender festival at the Koothandavar temple in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi district. For a few fleeting days each year, at the heart of the Koothandavar Temple where ostracised transgender community members from across India come to honour the Hindu deity Aravan, a tradition rooted in millennia-old Hindu texts -- and to enjoy a brief oasis of freedom. Getty Images