Before beginning his speech, Modi urged the gathering to observe silence as a mark of respect to “our family members” who lost their lives in Pahalgam.

An army soldier was killed in an encounter between security forces and militants following a search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Thursday (April 24).

Before the image of railway stations’ commotion became India’s reality, such a vast network of over 68,000 kilometers was unthinkable. Quite a herculean task if you think about it like that. Who could possibly dare to weave together deserts, deltas, and densely-packed cities?