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‘India moving fast on path of development,’ says PM Modi as he flags off 4 new Vande Bharat trains

The new Vande Bharat Express trains will operate on the Banaras-Khajuraho, Lucknow-Saharanpur, Firozpur-Delhi and Ernakulam-Bengaluru routes.

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.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.