Officials say the train will help the troubled region, but many Kashmiris see it as a tool to entrench the Indian government’s control.

Passengers emphasised that the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat, which takes less than three hours for a 190km trip, would reorient travel between Kashmir and the rest of India

The world’s highest railway bridge, an ambitious piece of engineering across a mountain valley in Kashmir, was opened Friday by Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, just weeks after a deadly tourist massacre in the Himalayan region sparked a brief conflict with neighboring Pakistan.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated one of the most ambitious and strategic railway projects the nation has ever built.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened one of the country’s most ambitious railway projects, which will connect the Kashmir Valley to the vast Indian plains by train for the first time. Dubbed by the government-operated Indian Railways as one of the most challenging tracks in the world,

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir on Friday for the first time since the 2019 conflict with Pakistan, inaugurating the strategically vital Chenab Rail Bridge. Calling Kashmir “the crown jewel of India,