PM Modi and Shinzo Abe today laid the foundation stone for the proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train at Sabarmati Athletic Grounds near Sabarmati railway station.
On Thursday, Modi and Abe will participate in the ground breaking ceremony of the ambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore ($17 billion) Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail project
China currently has the world's longest high-speed rail network. It has connected most of its cities with high speed trains reducing the travel time drastically.
Handvo will be the star of the Gujarati thali dinner that will be served to Japan PM Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie tonight.
Massive security arrangements have been put in place as PM Modi and Shinzo Abe are expected to attend several programmes over the next two days.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at the Ahmedabad airport. The two premiers will, in a first of its kind, carry out a 9-km long roadshow.
The Centre is confident of starting the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train on August 15, 2022 to commemorate the 75th year of India's Independence, a year ahead of its schedule
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe would take part in a road show in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on September 13 when the latter begins his visit
PM Modi has pledged to invest billions of dollars to modernise India's creaking railway system, with the bullet train one of his key election promises ahead of his landslide victory in 2014
The groundbreaking ceremony will be held at a ground near the Sabarmati railway station in Ahmedabad.
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (MAHSR), popularly known as the bullet train, will start ferrying passengers from 2023, said Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
The preliminary cost of the project is estimated to be about Rs 52,680 crore.
It is not in India's best interest to bar China from entering into partnership on high-speed train projects, Chinese daily Global Times said on Tuesday.
Akhilesh Yadav said PM Modi should hurry up in building bullet trains as he will not get another chance at the Centre.
In a bid to ascertain soil condition of India's first bullet train path, a seven-km undersea route of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail corridor is underway in its full swing. Passengers will get the thrill of riding
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