According to the statement from the Ministry of Defence, the tunnel has been constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) at an altitude of 13,000 feet on the road connecting Tezpur, Assam, to Tawang in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
The border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh held Directors General Level Coordination Conference from March 5-9 in Dhaka and discussed prevention of trans-border crimes and building border infrastructure, an official statement said.
Facing his third Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the previous Congress-led UPA regime on Saturday for allegedly "neglecting" border villages in the northeastern states.
From the India-China border situation in Ladakh to the violence in Manipur, Congress posed four questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the allegedly increasingly "disturbed" situation in different parts of the northeast.
At least two people were killed after a National Guard helicopter with one National Guardsman and three Border Patrol agents on-board, crashed near the US-Mexico border in Texas, the New York Post reported.
According to an official release, the 25 companies include five companies of Central Reserved Police Forces (CRPF), 15 companies of Border Security Force (BSF), and five companies of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
In a stern reply to India amid the diplomatic standoff between the two nations, China has said that deploying more troops at the border would not ease tensions. It said that it is committed to upholding peace and tranquility in the border areas.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police in a joint operation recovered a packet of suspected heroin of gross weight, approximately 5 kg, in Punjab's Amritsar district, officials said on Friday.
The Border Security Force apprehended a Pakistani national near the India-Pakistan border fence in Amritsar, an official statement issued on Thursday read.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Bank Indonesia (BI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday for establishing a framework to promote the use of local currencies -- the Indian Rupee (INR) and the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) for cross-border transactions.