World's fastest train: China launches rail model prototype which hits highest speed of 450 kmphChina is all set to launch the world's fastest train which has a maximum speed of 450 kmph. The prototype has been unveiled.
29 Dec, 2024, 08.53 PM IST
China is raising bullet train fares as debts and costs balloonChina raises bullet train fares to address rising costs and debts, impacting public services, state-owned enterprises, and international tr...
14 May, 2024, 12.40 AM IST
To be the next China, India needs faster trainsStarting with the inaugural Beijing-Tianjin line in 2008, China’s high-speed rail is now a 26,000-mile network and supports a top speed of ...
14 Nov, 2023, 04.38 PM IST
Driver killed, seven passengers injured as bullet train derails in ChinaThe bullet train D2809 was running from China's South Western Guiyang province to the Southern province of Guangzhou when the two carriages...
04 Jun, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
Time for Centre to embrace cooperative federalism for bullet train project?India’s maiden effort in construction and operationalizing 508-km high speed railway corridor connecting Gujarat with Mumbai stands in star...
29 Jun, 2021, 04.10 PM IST
Crime, not an accident of berth! Why China has been cracking down seat-robbing in its trainsChina’s stand on bullet train seat robbery highlights an often ignored transgression.
15 Dec, 2018, 10.17 AM IST
China developing 400 kph bullet train: OfficialHe also said China was carrying out research on the next generation magnetic-levitation (meglev) trains which have a top speed of 600 kmph.
28 Feb, 2018, 08.18 PM IST
How Doklam dents China's bullet train chase against Japan in IndiaChina and Japan have been competing to bag high-speed rail contracts in the region. China beat Japan last year to bag a project in Indonesi...
08 Sep, 2017, 01.54 PM IST
Thailand approves $5.5 bn bullet train project with ChinaThe project is part of China's huge regional infrastructure plan to build a high-speed rail network connecting the southern city of Kunming...
12 Jul, 2017, 11.49 AM IST
China's fastest bullet train makes debutThe train took about five hours and 45 minutes to reach Shanghai. On its way, it stopped by 10 stations, including Jinan, Shandong province...
26 Jun, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
China launches longest bullet trainThe train left Kunming at 11:05 am on a 2,760-km trip to Beijing, which takes about 13 hours.
05 Jan, 2017, 09.24 PM IST
China operationalises world's longest bullet train lineThe Shanghai-Kunming line -- 2,252 km in length -- traverses the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan and cuts tr...
28 Dec, 2016, 01.10 PM IST
Beijing-Shanghai bullet train nets about a $1 billion profitIn 2015, the gross revenue of the company was 23.42 billion yuan, and its total operating costs hit 16.74 billion yuan, state-run Xinhua ne...
20 Jul, 2016, 12.51 PM IST
Japan pips China in race to build India's first bullet train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad routeIndia's move to opt for Japanese bullet trains on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route has raised concerns in China which is vying with Japan to buil...
09 Dec, 2015, 07.27 PM IST
China's bullet train on trial run in China's farthest northA bullet train departed from the provincial capital of Harbin at around 5 am to the city of Qiqihar, according to the Harbin Railway Bureau.
13 Jul, 2015, 12.39 PM IST
'Delhi-Chennai bullet train to bring untold dividends for India and China'A railway ministry team is in China to discuss the Chinese offer to conduct a feasibility study for the 1,754-km Chennai-Delhi line which c...
27 Nov, 2014, 06.49 PM IST
- China's bullet train to cut Beijing-Shanghai travel by 13 hrs
Chinese railway is all set to test its bullet train in the longest Beijing-Shanghai rail corridor next month, which is expected to cut the ...
21 Feb, 2011, 04.13 PM IST