Bullet Train

India's first bullet train section - a 50km stretch between Bilimora and Surat in Gujarat - will be completed in August 2026, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday, as he announced multiple plans to overhaul the country's rail network.

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project completed the first kilometre of the viaduct within six months by June 2022.

In a significant breakthrough, engineers have completed the first mountain tunnel on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor through which trains will zip past at a speed of 350 km per hour, officials said.

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said a high-speed train will start running between Ahmedabad and Sanand in the next six months.

Professional wrestling is one of Japan's most popular sports, having seen some big names perform there.

One worker was killed and six others injured after a girder launcher fell on them during the construction of a high-speed rail corridor for the upcoming bullet train project near Karjan town in Gujarat's Vadodara district today, officials said.

For railway cop Tikaram Meena, from Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur, retirement was just nine months away -- a prospect he must have looked forward to. Instead, he was gunned down by his colleague, 25 years his junior, on a moving train in Maharashtra.

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro's board will meet next week to consider a proposal to buy back shares and payment of a special dividend for FY2023-24, according to a regulatory filing.

Japanese ambassador to India, Hiroshi Suzuki, who once lauded the hard work put in by workers to advance the bullet train project, was spotted travelling in a Mumbai local on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who is on an official trip of Japan, on Sunday undertook a 500-km bullet train journey to its capital city Tokyo and said such a service could benefit the Indian citizens as well.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said his administration has removed all obstacles that held up the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project during the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday lauded the launch of the state's first Vande Bharat Express train by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that it is one step closer towards the aspiration of Bullet trains in the country.

The cartoons show an overcrowded Indian train overtaking a modernised Chinese bullet train plying on a parallel track.

The Congress said the sequence of events connected with Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha unfolded with the speed of a "bullet train".

India and Japan on Monday signed two documents on the renewal of a memorandum of cooperation on the Japanese language and exchange of notes on a 300 billion Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) loan for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train.

India's first bullet train section - a 50km stretch between Bilimora and Surat in Gujarat - will be completed in August 2026, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday, as he announced multiple plans to overhaul the country's rail network.

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project completed the first kilometre of the viaduct within six months by June 2022.

In a significant breakthrough, engineers have completed the first mountain tunnel on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor through which trains will zip past at a speed of 350 km per hour, officials said.

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said a high-speed train will start running between Ahmedabad and Sanand in the next six months.

Professional wrestling is one of Japan's most popular sports, having seen some big names perform there.

One worker was killed and six others injured after a girder launcher fell on them during the construction of a high-speed rail corridor for the upcoming bullet train project near Karjan town in Gujarat's Vadodara district today, officials said.

For railway cop Tikaram Meena, from Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur, retirement was just nine months away -- a prospect he must have looked forward to. Instead, he was gunned down by his colleague, 25 years his junior, on a moving train in Maharashtra.

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro's board will meet next week to consider a proposal to buy back shares and payment of a special dividend for FY2023-24, according to a regulatory filing.

Japanese ambassador to India, Hiroshi Suzuki, who once lauded the hard work put in by workers to advance the bullet train project, was spotted travelling in a Mumbai local on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who is on an official trip of Japan, on Sunday undertook a 500-km bullet train journey to its capital city Tokyo and said such a service could benefit the Indian citizens as well.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said his administration has removed all obstacles that held up the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project during the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday lauded the launch of the state's first Vande Bharat Express train by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that it is one step closer towards the aspiration of Bullet trains in the country.

The cartoons show an overcrowded Indian train overtaking a modernised Chinese bullet train plying on a parallel track.

The Congress said the sequence of events connected with Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha unfolded with the speed of a "bullet train".

India and Japan on Monday signed two documents on the renewal of a memorandum of cooperation on the Japanese language and exchange of notes on a 300 billion Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) loan for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train.