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The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India.^[1]

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Aizawl

Aizawl (Mizo), formerly known as Aijal, is the capital city and the most populous city of Mizoram, India.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.

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Army Act, 1950

The Army Act, 1950 is an Indian act governing military law in the Indian Armed Forces. Border Roads Organisation and Army Act, 1950 are military of India.

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Arunachal Frontier Highway (AFH), officially notified as the National Highway NH-913 and also called Bomdila-Vijaynagar Highway (BVH), connecting Bomdila Airstrip ALG & HQ in northwest to Vijaynagar Airstrip ALG & HQ in southeast via Nafra HQ-Sarli HQ-Huri Helipad ALG & HQ-Nacho HQ-Mechuka Airstrip ALG & HQ-Monigong HQ-Jido (Tuting Airstrip ALG & HQ)-Hunli HQ-Hayuliang Airstrip ALG HQ-Chenquenty-Hawai HQ-Miao HQ (with Miao-Kharsang HQ spur) including 800 km greenfield section and network of new tunnels & bridges, is a 2-lane paved-shoulder under-construction national highway along the India-China LAC-McMahon Line border in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.

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Atal Setu, Jammu and Kashmir

Atal Setu is a cable-stayed bridge on the Ravi River near Basholi Town, District Kathua, commissioned on 24 December 2015 by former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikkar.

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Atal Tunnel

Atal Tunnel (also known as Rohtang Tunnel), named after former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a highway tunnel built under the Rohtang Pass in the eastern Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas on the National Highway 3 in Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) is a military award of India given to recognize "distinguished service of an exceptional order" to all ranks of the armed forces.

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Bara-lacha la

Bara-lacha la also known as Bara-lacha Pass, or Bārā Lācha La, (el.) is a high mountain pass in the Zanskar range of Northern-India, connecting Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh to Leh district in Ladakh.

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Bhutan

Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.

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Bikaner

Bikaner is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India.

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Bomdila

Bomdila is the headquarters of West Kameng district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

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Char Dham

The Char Dham, also rendered the Chatur Dhama is a set of four Hindu pilgrimage sites in India, consisting of Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri and Rameswaram.

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Char Dham Railway

The Char Dham Railway, the Indian Railways's under construction twin railway lines under Char Dham Pariyojana project by connecting the holiest places of Hinduism called Chota Char Dham, from the existing Doiwala railway station near Dehradun to Gangotri and Yamunotri via a fork at Uttarkashi and another set of twin rail links from the upcoming railway station at Karnaprayag to Kedarnath and Badrinath via a fork at Saikot.

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Chetak

Chetak or Cetak is the name given in traditional literature to the horse ridden by Maharana Pratap at the Battle of Haldighati, fought on 18 June 1576 at Haldighati, in the Aravalli Mountains of Rajasthan, in western India.

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China Study Group

The China Study Group (CSG) of the Government of India is an informal official group set up for advising the government on its China policy.

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Chungthang

Chungthang is a town in Mangan district in the Indian state of Sikkim.

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Dimapur

Dimapur is the largest city and municipality in the Indian state of Nagaland.

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Doc (computing)

.doc (an abbreviation of "document") is a filename extension used for word processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary File Format; it was the primary format for Microsoft Word until the 2007 version replaced it with Office Open XML.docx files.

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Doom Dooma

Doom Dooma (Pron:/ˌduːm ˈduːmə/) is a town and a town committee in Tinsukia district in the state of Assam, India.

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Engineering Services Examination

The Engineering Services Examination (ESE) is an annual combined standardized exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to recruit officers to various engineering services under the Government of India.

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Farkhor Air Base

Farkhor Air Base is a military air base located near the town of Farkhor in Tajikistan, southeast of the capital Dushanbe.

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Gangtok

Gangtok is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Sikkim.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib

Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib is a Sikh place of worship (gurdwara) and pilgrimage site in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.

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Hisar Air Base

Ayni Air Force Base, also known as Gissar Air Base, is a military air base in Tajikistan, west of the capital Dushanbe.

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India–China Border Roads

India–China Border Roads (ICBRs, ICB Roads) is a Government of India project for developing infrastructure along the Sino-Indian border by constructing strategic roads, including bridges and tunnels.

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India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway

India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway (IMT Highway), long route, is a 4-lane highway under construction under India's Look East policy that will connect Moreh, India with Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar. Border Roads Organisation and India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway are roads in India.

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Indian Army Corps of Engineers

The Indian Army Corps of Engineers is a combat support arm which provides combat engineering support, develops infrastructure for armed forces and other defence organisations and maintains connectivity along the borders, besides helping the civil authorities during natural disasters.

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Indian Army Pioneer Corps

The Indian Army Pioneer Corps or Pioneers is the operational logistics arm of the Indian Army.

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Integrated financial advisor (India)

In the Civil Services of India, an Integrated financial advisor (IFA) is supposedly representative of Ministry of finance and is attached to any executive (higher or equal to the level of level of joint secretary in civil and brigadier in military) to assist it in the exercise of financial powers.

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ISO 9000 family

The ISO 9000 family is a set of five quality management systems (QMS) standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that help organizations ensure they meet customer and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service.

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Jammu

Jammu is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.

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Jeevan Raksha Padak

The Jeevan Raksha Padak is a civilian lifesaving award presented by the Government of India.

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Joint secretary to the Government of India

Joint Secretary to the Government of India (often abbreviated as JS, GoI or Union Joint Secretary or Joint Secretary to Union of India) is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in the Government of India.

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Kirti Chakra

The Kirti Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle.

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Leh

Leh is a city in Ladakh in the Himalayan region.

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Leh–Manali Highway

The Leh–Manali Highway is a long highway in northernmost India connecting Leh, the capital of the Union Territory of Ladakh, to Manali in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Lumla

Lumla is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous circle in the Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

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Lungalacha La

Lachulung La (el.), or Lāchālūng La or Lungalacha La, is a paved motorable mountain pass in Ladakh in India just north of border with Himachal Pradesh.

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Mae Sot

Mae Sot (แม่สอด,; မဲဆောက်,; မႄႈသွတ်ႇ) is a city in western Thailand that shares a border with Myanmar to the west.

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Maharana Pratap

Pratap Singh I (9 May 1540 – 19 January 1597), popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was a king of Kingdom of Mewar, in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan.

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Manali, Himachal Pradesh

Manali is a town, near Kullu town in Kullu district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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McMahon Line

The McMahon Line is the boundary between Tibet and British India as agreed in the maps and notes exchanged by the respective plenipotentiaries on 24–25 March 1914 at Delhi, as part of the 1914 Simla Convention.

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Minister of Defence (India)

The Minister of Defence (ISO: Rakṣā Maṁtrī) is the head of the Ministry of Defence and a high ranking minister of the Government of India.

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Ministry of Defence (India)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) (romanized: Raksha Mantralay) is charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Indian Armed Forces. Border Roads Organisation and Ministry of Defence (India) are military of India.

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Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is a ministry of the Government of India, that is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws relating to road transport, transport research and in also to increase the mobility and efficiency of the road transport system in India.

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Moreh, India

Moreh (Meitei pronunciation: /mō-rey/) is a border town located on the India–Myanmar border in Tengnoupal district of the Indian state of Manipur.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Naharlagun

Naharlagun is a town situated in the foothills of Himalayas in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the current Prime Minister of India since 26 May 2014.

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National Highway 1 (India)

National Highway 1 (NH 1) in India runs between the union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

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National Highway 13 (India)

National Highway 13 (NH 13), part of the larger Trans-Arunachal Highway network, is a 1,559 km long two-lane national highway across Arunachal Pradesh in India running from Tawang in northwest to Wakro in southeast.

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National Highway 1A (India, old numbering)

National Highway 1A (NH 1A) was a National Highway in North India that connected the Kashmir valley to Jammu and the rest of India.

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National Highway 1B (India, old numbering)

National Highway 1B (NH 1B) was an Indian National Highway entirely within the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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National Highway 348 (India)

National Highway 348, commonly called JNPT Road or NH348, previously knows as NH-4B is a 6 lane access controlled expressway in India.

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National Highway 566 (India)

National Highway 566 (NH 566) is a National Highway in India.

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National Highway 63 (India)

National Highway 63 (NH 63) is a National Highway in India, total length.

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Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Nimo, Ladakh

Nimo or Nyemo is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Order of battle

In modern use, the order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure, strength, disposition of personnel, and equipment of units and formations of the armed force.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Papum Pare district

Papum Pare district (Pron:/ˌpæpəm ˈpæɹɪ or ˈpɑ:ɹeɪ/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

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Param Vishisht Seva Medal

Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) (IAST) is a military award of India.

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Pasighat

Pasighat is the headquarters of East Siang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Project Dantak

Dantak, also known as Project DANTAK, is an overseas project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India.

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Project Himank

Himank, also known as Project HIMANK is a project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India. It was established in August 1985 to facilitate the construction of road infrastructure in Ladakh and parts of Jammu and Kashmir under the India–China Border Roads project.

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Project Shivalik

Shivalik, also known as Project SHIVALIK is a project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India.

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Project Udayak

Udayak, also known as Project UDAYAK is a project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India.

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Project Vartak

Vartak, also known as Project VARTAK is a project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India.

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Public Sector Undertakings in India

Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) in India are government-owned entities in which at least 51% of stake is under the ownership of the Government of India or state governments.These type of firms can also be a joint venture of multiple PSUs.

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Rishikesh

Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in the Indian state Uttarakhand.

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Route 606 (Afghanistan)

Route 606, also known as Delaram-Zaranj Highway, also officially designated as NH49, is a 218 km roadwayBego, Bruno J., Afghanistan International Security Force website, August 30, 2011.

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Sainik Samachar

Sainik Samachar is a journal about the India's Armed Forces. Border Roads Organisation and Sainik Samachar are military of India.

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Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary

Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District.

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Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak

The Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak is a civilian lifesaving award presented by the Government of India.

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Sela Pass

The Sela Pass (more appropriately called Se La, as La means Pass) is a high-altitude mountain pass located on the border between the Tawang and West Kameng districts in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Sena Medal

The Sena Medal is awarded to members of the Indian army, of all ranks, "for such individual acts of exceptional devotion to duty or courage as have special significance for the Army." Awards may be made posthumously and a bar is authorized for subsequent awards of the Sena Medal.

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Shaurya Chakra

The Shaurya Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged in direct action with the enemy.

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Shillong

Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.

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Shimla

Shimla (also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Shinku La

Shingo La (also known as Shinku La) is a mountain pass in India, on the state boundary between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.

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Simtokha Dzong

Simtokha Dzong ('dzong' means "castle-monastery") also known as Sangak Zabdhon Phodrang (Bhutanese language meaning: "Palace of the Profound Meaning of Secret Mantras") is a small dzong.

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Sino-Indian border dispute

The Sino–Indian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large, and several smaller, separated pieces of territory between China and India.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Srinagar

Srinagar (English) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Standing Committee on Defence (India)

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (SCOD) is a department related standing committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of legislative oversight of the defence policies and decision making of the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India (ISO: Bhārata kā Sarvōcca Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India.

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Taglang La

Taglang La or Tanglang La, elevation, is a high altitude mountain pass in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tamu, Myanmar

Tamu is a town in the Kabaw Valley in the Sagaing Region in north-west Myanmar near the border with the eastern Indian state of Manipur.

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Tanakpur

Tanakpur is a city and a municipal board in Champawat district of Uttarakhand state of India.

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Tawang

Tawang is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Tezpur

Tezpur is a town in Sonitpur district, Assam state, India.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.

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Trans-Arunachal Highway

The Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which includes an existing route comprising NH-13 and parts of NH-15, NH-215 and SH-25, is an under-construction 2-lane more than long highway passing through 16 districts in Arunachal Pradesh state in India.

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Trashigang

Trashigang (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), or Tashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount," is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district).

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Tung, Sikkim

Tung is a village in the Chungthang subdivision of North Sikkim district in the north Indian state of Sikkim.

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Umling La

Umling La or Umlung La is the highest paved road and mountain pass in the world, located in Ladakh, India, on the ridgeline between Koyul Lungpa and the Indus River near Demchok.

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Union Public Service Commission

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; ISO) is a constitutional body in India that conducts direct recruitment of officers to the All India Services and the Central Civil Services (Group A and B) through examinations.

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Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak

The Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak is a civilian lifesaving award presented by the Government of India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Vishisht Seva Medal

The Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) is a decoration of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Zoji La

Zoji La (sometimes Zojila Pass) is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas.

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Zoji-la Tunnel

Zoji La Tunnel is an under-construction 9.5 m wide, 7.57 m high and 14.2 km long, horseshoe-shaped single-tube, 2 lane road tunnel at the height of 11,575 feet (3,528 m) above sea level which passes under the Zoji La pass in the Himalayas between Ganderbal of Kashmir (J&K) and Drass town in Kargil district of Ladakh.

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2005 Kashmir earthquake

An earthquake occurred at on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan.

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2010 Ladakh floods

The 2010 Ladakh floods occurred on 6 August 2010 across a large part of Ladakh, then part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Roads_Organisation

Also known as Border Road Organisation, Border Road Organization, Border Roads Organization, Border Roads Task Force, Indian Border Roads Organisation.

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1960 establishments in Delhi

Executive branch of the government of India

Government agencies established in 1960

Roads in India

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