Over a century after the original Pamban Bridge was built across the Palk Strait in Rameswaram, India is set to launch a state-of-the-art replacement.

INDIA: The new Pamban railway bridge in Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district was inaugurated when Prime Minister Narendra Modi operated the vertical lift span to facilitate the passage of a naval coastguard vessel.

Modi Rameswaram visit LIVE: Follow the latest updates of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rameswaram to inaugurate the Pambam Bridge on The Hindu’s live blog.

SWAN Arankoodam inaugural held on 23 September 2025 at Pamban, Ramanathapuram

For those on Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram island, the 110-year-old Pamban railway bridge is a lifeline, a thread binding its people to the mainland and to each other

India has a new bridge and a first in the country's history. The Pamban VLB opened to rail traffic on Sunday, replacing the century old drawbridge which had reached the end of its functional life as a railroad crossing. And while plans are in the making to repurpose that bridge for pedestrian use, the new span will carry long-distance and regional rail trains, making it the first overseas viaduct with a vertical lift span in India's history.

20-foot whale found dead in Pamban, Ramanathapuram district; suspected to be blue or bryde's whale, samples collected for study.

A record number of Indian fisherfolk were arrested by Sri Lanka in 2024 amid depleting catch in Indian waters.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) of India has seized a commercial hotel property worth $3.5 million in the popular tourist place Pamban Island of Rameswaram town in Tamil Nadu, allegedly belonging …

À l’extrémité sud-est de l’île de Pamban, dans le Tamil Nadu, les ruines de Dhanushkodi se dressent sur une étroite langue de sable entre le détroit de Palk et le golfe de Mannar. Gare, église et b…