PM Modi will flag off South India's first 'Vande Bharat Express' train and inaugurate the second terminal of Kempegowda International Airport, built at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore, during his visit to the city on November 11.
Mumbai-Ahmedabad Vande Bharat Express: This is the third such incident involving this semi-high speed train so far this month.
Vande Bharat Express -- train number 22447 departed from New Delhi railway station at 5:50 am. Loco pilot Mahendra Kumar Meena said it will take 4 hours 46 minutes to reach Una.
The train will run between Una and Delhi and is an advanced version compared to the earlier ones, being much lighter and capable of reaching higher speed in a shorter duration.
Vande Bharat Varanasi News: This is the third consecutive incident involving Vande Bharat in as many days.
The Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express hit a cow near Anand station in Gujarat, resulting in minor damage to the train's nose panel. A day before, the newly-launched semi-high speed train had hit four buffaloes and its nose cone had to be replaced.
Vande Bharat Express accident: RPF inspector Pradeep Sharma posted at Vatva railway station said the FIR was filed under section 147 of the Railways Act, 1989, which deals with unauthorised entry into any part of a railway and misuse of its property.
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.
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