NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday opened a Himalayan tunnel that will drastically reduce the time needed to rush troops to the country’s remote Chinese border as tensions grow between the Asian neighbors.

FAST ROUTE In this handout photograph taken on October 3, 2020 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks on a road inside the Highway Atal tunnel, near Manali in Himachal
Pradesh state. PIB / AFP PHOTO

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