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.

In a bold statement of engineering ambition and national integration, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated two record-breaking railway bridges in Jammu and Kashmir projects aimed at stitching the Himalayan region more tightly into India’s vast railway network.

Kashmir valley got connected with the rest of India with the inauguration of the much-awaited and world's highest railway arch bridge over the river Chenab by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during