The initiative aims to increase public awareness of how the suspension of the decades-old agreement benefits India.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted a series of searches across Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh to probe Khalistani terror network, officials said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted a series of searches across Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh to probe Khalistani terror network, officials said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 18 places across Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in a terror conspiracy case, linked to pro-Khalistani groups and other anti-national elements who attempts to revive terrorism.

The Punjab Police on Saturday busted a terror module linked to the banned outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in Amritsar.

Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has said the country was compelled to request a ceasefire with India last month after the latter struck two of its two air bases in Rawalpindi and Punjab province, as part of Operation Sindoor.

As the first electoral contest post Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, voting for the by-elections to five Assembly seats across Punjab, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Kerala began amid tight security arrangements on Thursday.

The sowing of Kharif, or monsoonal, crops in Pakistan is taking a hit because of a drop in water from the Indus River System being released from India following the suspension of the water-sharing treaty, a report has indicated.

A Pakistan report indicates a 13.3 per cent year-on-year shortfall in water drawn from the Indus River System - and supplied to already water-starved farms in the Punjab province - after India halting the Indus Waters Treaty for the Pahalgam attack.

India had launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Pakistan's Punjab province may be looking ahead to a tough kharif (summer crops) sowing season amid a major water shortage at two of its key damns-- Tarbela on the Indus river and Mangla on the Jhelum river.

In a big breakthrough, the Punjab Police has busted terror networks that were backed by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence spy agency and involved in an attempted grenade attack near Amritsar last week.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Punjab's Adampur air base and interacted with soldiers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday travelled to the Adampur air base in Punjab and interacted with air force personnel, who have been in the thick of action during the recent conflict with Pakistan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday saluted the bravery of soldiers at the Air Force base in Punjab's Adampur, all of whom played a key role in repelling missiles and drones fired by Pakistan last week.

Adampur was among the air force stations that Pakistan attempted to attack after India's "Operation Sindoor".

Pakistan fired at least 300 drones, some of Turkish origin, toward India in a bid to target military installations in 36 cities in northern and western India, from Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

Deterrence between India and Pakistan is fragile, but India's capacity to deter Pakistan's use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy will require more than kinetic strikes, as we have witnessed over the last two days.

The Indian Premier League match between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians, scheduled for May 11 in Dharamsala, has been shifted.

With the temporary closure of Dharamsala's airport following India's missile strikes on Pakistan's terror infrastructure, the travel plans of IPL teams which are supposed to play in the hill town have gone for a toss.

India's calibrated military response to the Pahalgam terror attack included a strike on Muridke in Pakistan's Punjab, which is home to the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and is known as the "terror nursery" of Punjab.

After India's strikes in several parts of Pakistan, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan Punjab, key airports in the country will remain shut for 48 hours, reports said.

Operation Sindoor Highlights: The Indian armed forces foiled fresh attempts by the Pakistani military to target northern and western cities using drones and missiles on Thursday evening, sources said.

A cache of terrorist hardware, including grenades and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were recovered from a forest in Punjab.