Srinagar: Signaling India’s intent to harden its defences against simultaneous pressures from China and Pakistan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday inaugurated 125 Border Roads Organisation (BRO) projects from eastern Ladakh—India’s largest single-day border infrastructure rollout.

The centrepiece of this push is the Shyok Tunnel, a 920-metre, cut-and-cover structure at over 12,000 feet on the Darbuk–Shyok–Daulat Beg Oldie (DS-DBO) Road, a corridor whose strategic value has surged since the 2020 Galwan Valley clashes.

The tunnel, described by Rajnath as “an engineering marvel built in one of the world’s toughest terrains”, provides all-weather connectivity to forward positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The DS-DBO axis leads to India’s northernmost military outpost a

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