Indian bullet train met with criticism as Modi celebrates with Japanese PM
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a ceremony for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail project - AFP/ Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone of a £14.4bn high-speed train project in his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s western home state of Gujarat on Thursday. Funded largely by a loan from Japan, the bullet train is expected to reduce the time of the 310-mile long journey between Gujarat’s largest town of Ahmedabad and the port city of Mumbai to less than three hours, which ...
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