A 21-km-long underground/undersea tunnel, the first-of-its-kind in India, is under construction between Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata stations of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train route
18 January,2025 10:22 PM IST | Divya NairThe new Vande Bharat sleeper train was spotted between Kandivali and Borivali stations during a trial run from Ahmedabad to Mumbai Central on Wednesday. (PICS/ Nimesh Dave)
15 January,2025 03:24 PM IST | Joy ManikumarThe National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NSRCL) on Tuesday said that a 210 meter long bridge crossing the National Highway (NH) 48 in Gujarat for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project has been completed. Pics/X (Story/Rajendra B. Aklekar)
07 January,2025 07:17 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedThe Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project has reached a significant engineering breakthrough with the installation of 2,06,000 noise barriers along its 103 km viaduct corridor, NHSRCL said in an official statement on Monday. (Pics/ X, NHSRCL)
23 December,2024 06:43 PM IST | Jyoti ShuklaThe construction of the bullet train corridor has commenced in the elevated section spanning Palghar and Thane districts in Maharashtra, the Western Railway said on Thursday. Pics/Western Railway
07 March,2024 06:56 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedMid-day took a trip to Antroli, Niyol and Mohni villages in Surat district where villagers who’ve received some of the highest land compensations for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project are wrestling with a range of emotions from ecstasy to confusion
11 June,2023 11:54 AM IST | EditorThe high-speed rail corridor, set to connect Mumbai and Ahmedabad by 2023, has been touted as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project. However, in May 2013, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced the launch of the project in India. In 2014, however, when the NDA government came to power, PM Modi announced that this was his dream project. It was then decided to run the high-speed train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai at a speed of 360 km/hr. While the initial deadline for this project was 2020, it has now become December 2023. In a six-part series to assess on-ground protests against the Bullet Train project, mid-day travelled across and spoke to people who may lose their ancestral land. (All photos: Sneha Kharabe)
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