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

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated one of the most ambitious railway projects ever built in India, which would connect the Kashmir Valley to the vast Indian plains by train for the first time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kashmir on Friday, his first visit to the contested Himalayan region since a conflict with arch-rival Pakistan last month, and opened a strategic railway line.