The world's highest railway bridge, an ambitious piece of engineering across a mountain valley in Kashmir, opened Friday (local time) by Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, just weeks after a deadly tourist massacre in the Himalayan region sparked a brief conflict with neighboring Pakistan.

Kashmir valley got connected with the rest of India with the inauguration of the much-awaited and world's highest railway arch bridge over the river Chenab by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during

Remarkably standing high, 359 metres above the river, the Chenab Bridge is 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower and is now the highest railway bridge in the world.