Tag: Bullet Train

Vaishnaw was in Surat to inspect the progress of the government's ambitious Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project.

New Delhi: Germany on Thursday submitted its final feasibility report for the 435-km high speed rail (bullet train) corridor between Mysore-Bengaluru-Chennai to the Indian Railways. The report was handed over to Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani by German Ambassador to India Martin Ney at the Railway Ministry here. Speaking about the report, the German Ambassador […]

Gandhinagar: India and Japan on Thursday signed 15 agreements, including one to give a fillip to India’s Act East policy by enhancing connectivity and developmental projects in India’s northeast, and for more flights between the two countries. The agreements were inked after the annual bilateral summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart […]

New Delhi/Mumbai/Ahmedabad: Ponds, ambulances, solar street lights and doctors are some of the demands villagers in Maharashtra’s Palghar district want met before they give their nod to the government’s ambitious bullet train project, say officials. Hoping to overcome the villagers’ resistance, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHRCL), the nodal body to implement the […]

China on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh.

New Delhi: Even as the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) is working on the construction of the 508 km-long Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed train or Bullet Train project, the agency is also holding studies for 5,000 km long seven new routes across the country. According to senior NHSRCL officials, the agency has been assigned by […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways has got all the requisite wildlife, forestry and coastal regulation zone clearances in Maharashtra and Gujarat for the 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor. Addressing a virtual press conference here, Railway Board Chairman and CEO, V.K. Yadav said, “Requisite Wildlife, Forestry and Coastal Regulation Zone clearances in the state of Gujarat […]