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Friday, July 25, 2025
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Topic: Bullet train

Modi’s 320 kmph Bullet Train has starting trouble

Modi’s showcase infrastructure project is struggling to acquire land as farmers are not happy with the compensation offered.

As India heads into election season, tracking the selective silence of Narendra Modi

PM Narendra Modi's recent speeches have been tellingly silent on some of his once-favourite topics.

Japan medical school wanted fewer women as doctors, and Israel’s sea wall around Gaza

Iran holds meeting with North Korea after US reimposes sanctions, and the Chinese family may soon get bigger.

Want our nod for bullet train? Give us doctors, street lights, medicines, say Palghar villagers

The National High Speed Rail Corporation is approaching individual landowners, but villagers in Maharashtra want their demands met first.

Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train construction will begin in 2019: Project chief

Achal Khare, MD of new company set up to build and run bullet train, says rest of this year will go in land acquisitions and awarding contracts.

Riding A One-Trick War Horse

The Narendra Modi government has invested too much time and capital to further its political conquest. Today's crisis shows it may be left with too little time in this term to refocus on governance.

Responses to “Homeopathy as Ideology”

A selection of the responses to Shekhar Gupta's column titled 'Homeopathy as ideology' are being published in our new section called Free Speak

South Korea set to invest in Rs 45,000-crore Mumbai-Nagpur expressway project

South Korea has shown interest in investing in big infrastructure projects in India.

Last Laughs – The Best Indian Cartoons (September 9 – September15)

The best Indian cartoons of the week, chosen by senior editors of ThePrint.

Homeopathy as Ideology

Criticism of the bullet train project shows our fear of scale is like mass hypochondria, where we fear real medicine and drift on with dainty, sweet, ineffectual pills.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.