Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat: The train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Gandhinagar on Friday morning. He also travelled on it from Gandhinagar to Kalupur station in Ahmedabad.
Sources said the IRCTC, in two letters in August and September, said the clash in timings will "defeat" the very purpose of introduction of the Tejas Express which is the Railways' premium corporate train.
Vande Bharat is the country's first semi-high speed train. The test speed of the train is 180 kmph, while the maximum speed is 160 kmph.
Congratulating the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) team for designing and rolling out the modern train Vande Bharat Express Vaishnaw said it is a proud project for Indian Railways.
The Khajuraho railway station falls under the North Central Railway. People visit Khajuraho mostly for seeing the Khajuraho groups of temples and monuments as UNESCO- heritage.
The idea is for advertising through radio in ten Shatabdi Express trains and two Vande Bharat Express trains.
Puri is one of the most popular tourist and religious destinations in the world and has rich cultural significance. Development of Puri station is underway and plan is there to bring Vande Bharat Express to Puri, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during his Odisha visit last week.
The trains will also have four emergency lights in each coach which can be used in a disaster situation if the normal lights fail during that time.
India's premium train Varanasi-New Delhi Vande Bharat express train no. 02435 was detained near the Prayagraj division (Prauyagraj-Kanpur Central), North Central Railway after smoke was reported from the train.
A total of 87,055 Indians have returned back home from Singapore since May last year as part of the Vande Bharat Mission repatriation flights.
In view of the second wave of coronavirus, the Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled 28 trains including Duronto-Rajdhani-Shatabdi and Vande Bharat. The Northern Railway has decided to cancel these special trains till further orders as Covid cases continue to rise in the country.
Vande Bharat is a semi-high speed train. The Integral Coach Factory manufactured the first two Vande Bharat trains. The trains run on two routes -- Varanasi and New Delhi, New Delhi and Katra.
Air India will operate its flight to Wuhan on October 30, the first after the central Chinese city from where the coronavirus initially emerged in December was officially declared safe from the virus in June and all curbs were lifted.
The Vande Bharat train from Delhi to Katra, home to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, will resume its service from October 15, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said.
In a welcome move for those seeking to travel to Jammu and Katra in Jammu and Kashmir from Delhi as country is exiting from the lockdown in phased manner, the Railways will resume service of India's semi-high speed train New Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat express from an early convenient date.
The Indian Railways has invited fresh tenders for manufacturing semi-high speed Vande Bharat train sets focusing on the domestic manufacturers and promoting the government's ambitious Make in India project.
Offering tickets free of cost on flights under the Vande Bharat mission would have further affected the finances of Indian airlines including Air India, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday.
On July 29, Air India had said on Twitter that passengers booking tickets through travel agents on international flights operating under the Vande Bharat Mission must not pay more than the fares mentioned on Air India's website.
Over 8.78 lakh Indians have returned from abroad after the government launched the "Vande Bharat" evacuation mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.
The railway's ministry has opened the bidding process for the supply of electrical equipment and other items for 44 sets of 16 coach Vande Bharat train. This current tender was floated on December 22 last year by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, and was opened on Friday (July 10).
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