According to the officials of NHSRCL, the trial of bullet train between Mumbai-Ahmedabad will start in 2026 and in 2027 the country's first bullet train will be put to service for the commutters.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, however, denied the report on Wednesday, saying that "there is no fact" in the Sankei Shimbun article. Tokyo was "not asked to participate in AUKUS", he said.
India and Japan inked six agreements providing for the expansion of bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, besides firming a separate clean energy partnership.
The 5 trillion yen goal exceeds the 3.5 trillion yen in investment and financing over the five years that the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced during his 2014 visit to India
The India-Japan Annual Summit had last taken place in Tokyo in October 2018. India and Japan have multi-faceted cooperation as partners within the ambit of their "Special Strategic and Global Partnership".
The region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.
As per Japanese mythology, the 'killing stone' believed to have trapped a demon was exorcised by a Buddhist monk. The site has been very popular among the visitors but since the stone has split up, superstitions are swirling.
Today's meeting of Quad leaders assumes significance as it takes place in the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine which now appears to become the largest European conflict in decades.
In November 2017, the US, Australia, India and Japan gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad to develop a new strategy to keep the critical sea routes in the Indo-Pacific free of any influence, amid China's growing military presence in the strategic region.
Supreme court set aside the Delhi High Court’s verdict in favour of a firm called Montecarlo Limited whose technical bid was rejected by an expert committee appointed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for several works about the Bullet train project.
The rescue team has found what appears to be missing people aboard the fighter on the Sea of Japan but the number of people found and their conditions cannot be confirmed.
The virtual event will be held from 17th to 21st January 2022. It will also be addressed by several Heads of State including Kishida Fumio, Japan PM.
The government has banned new entries by foreigners from abroad while requiring returning Japanese nationals and foreign residents to quarantine in government-designated facilities.
The fire broke out on the 4th or 5th floor of an 8-story building in a shopping and entertainment area on Friday, NHK said.
Japan said it has retracted the request after receiving criticisms from inside and outside the country that the ban was too strict.
Japan banned all foreign visitors starting Tuesday. The government also asked its citizens arriving in the country to quarantine for up to 14 days.
The Netherlands’ RIVM health institute disclosed that patient samples dating from Nov 19 and 23 were found to contain the variant. It was on Nov 24 that South African authorities reported the existence of the highly mutated virus to WHO.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale hit Southeast of Honshu in Japan on Monday at 6.10 pm, National Centre For Seismology said.
The decision means Japan will restore border controls that it eased earlier this month for short-term business visitors, foreign students and workers.
The areas of conflict include Japan’s wartime occupation of Korea and other historical matters, Japan’s handling of radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, trade conflicts and other matters.
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