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Activists and opposition parties are questioning the government’s decision to scrap the project.

Piyush Goyal scraps elevated corridor

Minister cites financial viability even as state pushes for costly bullet train.

20 Dec 2017 1:42 AM

In 31st attempt, bullet train logo winner hits bull's eye

The design might looks simple, but it has a deep meaning.

29 Oct 2017 6:44 PM

PM Narendra Modi and Japan PM Shinzo Abe

Put the brakes on bullet train

The plan to get a bullet train from Japan should be dropped entirely until we establish our own technologies.

08 Oct 2017 2:09 AM

This is not what I voted for in 2014

Nobody could have seen this coming after that stupendous, sweeping BJP win in the last general elections.

07 Oct 2017 12:18 AM

In his twitter handle, Chidambaram said, instead of bullet train, Railways should spend on safety, better infrastructure and better facilities. (Photo: PTI/File)

Bullet train will kill everything: Chidambaram mocks at Modi

Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laid the foundation of 508-kilometer Mumbai to Ahmedabad bullet train project.

30 Sep 2017 3:30 PM

Congress leader P Chidambaram. (Photo: PTI)

Bullet train project will be demonetisation-like move: Chidambaram

The bullet train project, linking Mumbai and Ahmedabad, is not for ordinary people.

30 Sep 2017 3:07 PM

The MNS Chief said that he would lead a morcha on October 5 to Western Railway headquarters at Churchgate and question them about their infrastructure. (Photo: PTI/File)

No bullet train in Mumbai until local railways is improved: Raj Thackeray

Thackeray said the Railways has blamed rains for the stampede but it was not the first time it rained in the city.

30 Sep 2017 12:47 PM

For every kilometre to elevated or underground tunnel track, nearly about 10,000 mt of cement would be consumed.

Projects like bullet train a boon for idle cement capacity: CMA

Industry is already sitting on more than Rs 60,000 crore of sunk investment in surplus capacities.

17 Sep 2017 12:06 PM

The bullet train project received Sena’s criticism.

Bullet train not common man’s dream, says Shiv Sena

The high-speed train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai is expected to be completed by 2022.

15 Sep 2017 3:34 AM

Akhilesh Yadav takes dig at PM Modi on bullet train

Yadav said the BJP leaders were better than him because they could set things right by just chanting mantras.

15 Sep 2017 2:29 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at the India-Japan Annual Summit at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. (Photo: PTI)

Modi, Abe launch India’s 1st bullet train project; 15 pacts to widen ties

The North Korean nuclear programme that threatens Japan too was also condemned by both countries.

15 Sep 2017 1:58 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, who arrived in Ahmedabad on Wednesday on a two-day visit. (Photo: AP)

'Jai Japan, Jai India': Modi, Shinzo Abe launch India's first bullet train

Later today, they are likely to deliberate extensively on bolstering defence and security ties during annual Indo-Japan summit.

14 Sep 2017 9:44 AM

92 per cent of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train’s route will be elevated.

Railway authorities to face technology and land hurdles

The train will stop at Thane and Virar, Boisar in Mumbai. It will halt at Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand and Ahmedabad in Gujarat.

14 Sep 2017 5:59 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

Bullet train project to be launched today

Railways officials hope it will help wipeout ‘derailment image’.

14 Sep 2017 3:39 AM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his wife and Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sabarmati ashram. (Photo: PTI)

Kurta pyjama, Nehru jacket: Shinzo Abe comes all ready for Indian trip

Japanese PM came out of his plane in a dark suit and soon changed into a white kurta-pyjama and an ink blue Nehru jacket.

13 Sep 2017 6:30 PM

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang (Photo: YouTube)

China shows interest in high speed railway projects in India amid Japan’s PM visit

Chinese side showed interest in projects in India as PM Modi and Japan's PM prepared to lay foundation for India’s 1st bullet train project.

13 Sep 2017 6:00 PM

According to the official, the Rs 600-crore high-speed rail training centre for the first bullet train project is expected to become operational by December 2020. (Representational Image)

High-speed rail training centre to come up in Vadodara

According to NHSRC official, the centre is expected to become operational by December 2020.

13 Sep 2017 2:23 PM

The survey for land in areas of Vasai and Palghar is currently being conducted.

80 per cent land survey for bullet train completed

The train itself will be procured from the Japanese.

13 Sep 2017 6:05 AM

PM Modi, Japanese PM Abe will lay foundation stone for the bullet train in Ahmedabad later this month.

Maharashtra partially ready to share BKC land

The MMRDA had written a letter to the Centre asking to relocate the bullet train’s direction at BKC.

13 Sep 2017 6:03 AM

Goyal, speaking on the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project, said that train has not seen a sigle accident in Japan. (Photo: ANI)

Indian railways to be revolutionised with bullet train project, says Piyush Goyal

The 500-km railway will link Mumbai and Ahmedabad in Western India, with services planned to commence in 2023.

11 Sep 2017 9:10 PM

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