Days after the Congress party returned to power in Himachal Pradesh, the issue over the restoration of a plaque declaring that the foundation stone for the Atal Tunnel was laid by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has come to the fore.

Border Roads Organisation (BRO) launched a snow clearance drive on the Bangus Nowgam road in Kupwara district of North Kashmir.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 11 (ANI): L&T Construction Equipment Limited (LTCEL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, said on Thursday it has dispatched the first batch of 25 special variant Wheel Loaders to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

Jammu Jan 20 PTI Police on Thursday booked a private company engaged in road construction for illegal mining in Jammu and Kashmirs Rajouri district officials said Dharam Raj Contracts India Private Limited has been engaged by the Border Roads Organisation BRO for a road-widening project in Rajouri This firm was found guilty of illegal mining from the river in Thanamandi causing a huge loss to the exchequer The mining was being carried out without paying any royalty to the government and without allotment of any mining block they said Police said the companys actions amounted to committing theft of natural resources The company has decayed the river bed which is also causing ecological imbalance and the water level has receded The company illegally extracted river bed materials from a natural source and crushed them the police said A huge stock of crushed materials approximately 70-80000 metric tonnes was found on the crusher spot during an inspection they said Acting on specific inputs the police raided different locations and seized a dumper and an excavator officials said PTI AB CJ CJ CJ

New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has raised its benchmark of excellence yet again by extending access to the formidable Zojila at an altitude of 11,649 ft, Zoji mountain pass remained open beyond 31st December.

Five people, including three labourers from Nepal, died and two others were injured with incessant rains lashing Uttarakhand for the second consecutive day on Monday.  The labourers were staying in a tent at Samkhal near Lansdowne when rubble flowing down from a field above due to the rains buried them alive, District Magistrate Vijay Kumar Jogdande […]

Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) [India], October 18 (ANI): Higher Himalayan region of Dharchula of Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district witnessed snowfall on Monday.

New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): The roads constructed by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) are used not only by the Armed Forces and Paramilitary Forces but traversed extensively by tourists and adventure seekers from all over the country, said a government release on Saturday.

Chandigarh Aug 30 PTI Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated The Modi government has made it clear to the forces that any unilateral action on the Line of Actual Control LAC should not be ignored he said Singh was delivering virtually the third Balramji Dass Tandon Memorial Lecture organised by Panjab University on the issue of national security The defence minister said that there have been perception differences on the border with China Despite this there are some agreements protocols which the armies of both countries follow to conduct patrols Referring to the clashes in eastern Ladakh last year Singh said Chinese forces had ignored the agreed protocols We cannot allow the Chinese Army PLA to act on the LAC in a unilateral manner under any circumstances That is what the Indian Army did that day in Galwan and bravely confronted the PLA soldiers and forced them to retreat he said while terming it as a historic incident India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue the defence minister said and asserted that the government will never compromise on issues of the countrys borders its honour and self-respect We will never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated he said Recalling the Galwan incident he said the bravery valour and restraint shown by the Indian Army are incomparable and unparalleled In the first deadly clash in the border area in nearly five decades 20 Indian soldiers were killed on June 15 last year in the Galwan Valley in fierce hand-to-hand combat with Chinese troops triggering a large deployment of troops and heavy weaponry by both armies at the friction points in eastern Ladakh In February China officially acknowledged that five Chinese military officers and soldiers were killed in the clashes with the Indian Army though it is widely believed that the death toll was higher In a significant forward movement towards the restoration of peace and tranquility in the region the Indian and Chinese armies completed the disengagement process and restored the pre-standoff ground position in Gogra in eastern Ladakh after 15 months The development came after the 12th round of military talks between the two sides on July 31 at the Chushul-Moldo meeting point in eastern Ladakh Earlier the Indian and Chinese frontline troops had conducted the first synchronised disengagement at the south and north banks of the Pangong lake in February The Army is trained to press the trigger on seeing the movement of the enemy but the Indian Army has shown both courage and restraint while working with great maturity Rajnath Singh said He said despite this questions were raised by some opposition leaders on the Armys capability The defence minister said India has learnt a lot from the 1962 war against China On improving infrastructure he said that the Atal Tunnel project in Rohtang which was on hold for a long time was completed by the Modi government This tunnel has strategic importance he said The Border Roads Organisation is developing infrastructure projects and all-weather connectivity was being given to Ladakh he said adding work on several alternative roads has started The minister said it will also help the people who live in border areas as these people have strategic importance for us Keeping their interests in mind it is necessary to strengthen the border infrastructure he said Referring to the situation in the Northeast the minister said an era of peace has come in this region in the last seven years There was a time when the entire region was in the grip of insurgency he said and dubbed the restoration of peace in the Northeast as the biggest strategic victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modis tenure The minister said the government has succeeded in controlling Left Wing Extremism as well in the last seven years When the BJP government was formed in 2014 as many as 160 districts were facing the Naxal problem while this number reduced to 50 in 2019 PTI CHS VSD RT RT