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Thursday, August 28, 2025
TopicVande Bharat Express

Topic: Vande Bharat Express

Now Katra to Srinagar in just 3 hrs. PM Modi flags off Vande Bharat linking Kashmir to rest of India

The PM also inaugurated 2 major engineering landmarks—Chenab Rail Bridge, the world’s highest railway arch bridge, and the Anji Khad Bridge, India’s first cable-stayed railway bridge.

‘Where is the colour green?’ & ‘Exotic tomatoes’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Modi flags off 5 new Vande Bharat trains, 2 of them for poll-bound Madhya Pradesh

PM flagged off 2 trains from Bhopal's Rani Kamalapati station & inaugurated 3 others virtually, including one connecting Ranchi & Patna, the first Vande Bharat for Bihar & Jharkhand.

Modi flags off Dehradun to Delhi Vande Bharat Express, India gets its 18th semi high-speed train

The service will start 29 May, with the train covering the 302 kilometres in 4 hours, 45 minutes.

How thousands of chips run smart train Vande Bharat Express — ‘practically a computer on wheels’

Vande Bharat Express is equipped with about 15,000 integrated circuits, or chips, to control almost all of its operations — from propulsion and braking to its automatic doors.

Boost religious & beach tourism – Odisha’s 1st Vande Bharat train promises better footfall, connectivity

Puri: Odisha’s first Vande Bharat Express, inaugurated Thursday, promises to boost religious and beach tourism to the state and further its relations with neighbour West...

‘Aapke dono haath mein laddoo,’ Modi to Gehlot after flagging off Rajasthan’s 1st Vande Bharat

PM thanks Congress chief minister for ‘taking time out for development’, for putting before him ‘the work that should have been done immediately after Independence’.

‘Weed out’ corrupt politics from state, Modi tells people in Telangana, as CM KCR skips event

Prime Minister was in Telangana to inaugurate Vande Bharat Express connecting Secunderabad and Tirupati and also lay the foundation stones for development projects worth Rs 11,000 crore.

As Modi flags off 11th Vande Bharat Express from Bhopal, a look at 4-year journey of India’s fastest train

Manufactured under Make in India initiative, the trains are equipped with unique features. Travel time from Delhi to Bhopal reduced from 11 hours to 7-½ hours.

PM Narendra Modi flags off Bhopal-Delhi Vande Bharat Express train

The semi-high speed train was flagged off at the Rani Kamalapati railway station in Bhopal city in the afternoon. This is the eleventh Vande Bharat train service in the country, the PMO said.

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All bets off as online gaming bill shakes industry & key players suspend ‘gambling’ on their platforms

The new law, which the government has framed as a moral duty, forced major platforms like Dream11 & Zupee to shut operations, wiping out hundreds of crores in market capitalisation. 

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.