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Railway Minister Shares Video Of Ballastless Track For Bullet Train

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Railway Minister Shares Video Of Ballastless Track For Bullet Train: ''First Time In India''

According to Mr Vaishnaw, 295.5 km of piers and 153 km of viaducts have already been finished.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw took to X on Thursday to share a video of India’s first ballastless track system being developed for the bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Significant progress has been achieved for the Bullet Train, which has a 320 kmph speed barrier, the minister revealed. According to Mr Vaishnaw, 295.5 km of piers and 153 km of viaducts have already been finished.

He posted a video of the same on his X account and wrote, “Bharat’s first ballastless track for Bullet Train. 320 kmph speed threshold, 153 km of viaduct completed, 295.5 km of pier work completed. More to come in Modi 3.0”.

Watch the video here:

Bharat’s first ballastless track for #BulletTrain !

✅320 kmph speed threshold
✅153 km of viaduct completed
✅295.5 km of pier work completed

More to come in Modi 3.0 pic.twitter.com/YV6vP4tbXS

— Ashwini Vaishnaw (मोदी का परिवार) (@AshwiniVaishnaw) March 28, 2024

Ballastless track, or ‘slab track’ is growing in popularity in some countries for high-speed lines. Notably, this is for the first time, the J-slab ballastless track system is being used in India. The innovative track system features pre-cast track slabs meticulously equipped with fastening devices and rails.

This slab rests on the RC track bed which has a thickness of approximately 300mm and is constructed in situ (at the site) for individual UP and Down track lines on the viaduct top. The RC track bed boasts a width of 2420mm, ensuring stability, National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) said.

“The bullet train project has to be seen from the perspective of integrating economies. In the first corridor that Indian railways are doing, Mumbai, Thane, Vapi, Baroda, Surat, Anand and Ahmedabad – all these economies will become one single economy. So you can have breakfast in Surat, go and complete your work in Mumbai, and come back with your family in the night,” Mr Vaishnaw said at NDTV Indian of the Year award on March 24.

The projected cost is an estimated ₹ 1.08 lakh crore, of which the Centre is committed to providing ₹ 10,000 crore, while Gujarat and Maharashtra will contribute ₹ 5,000 crore each. The remaining funding will be secured through a loan from Japan – at a minimal 0.1 per cent interest rate.

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Rameshwaram Cafe blast: NIA questions Bareilly preacher

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Officials noted that the preacher attracted NIA attention due to his mobile phone being traced to Karnataka on the day of the blast

Updated On – 29 March 2024, 09:49 AM

Rameshwaram Cafe blast: NIA questions Bareilly preacher

Lucknow: The Lucknow unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided the house of a preacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district and questioned him for several hours after picking him up in connection with the blast at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on March 1, senior police officials said.

The officials added that the preacher came on the NIA radar as his mobile phone location was found in Karnataka on the day of the blast.

They said the NIA team had been camping in Bareilly and raided the preacher’s house in Dhaura Tanda town under the Bhojipura police station limits after tracing his mobile phone location.

They added that the preacher was not found at his house and was later picked up from a place of worship and taken to the Bhojipura police station in Bareilly.

A senior police official said the NIA team questioned the suspect for around five hours at the police station. The local police were kept away from the entire process.

He added that the NIA team left after questioning the suspect, issuing instructions that he should not leave the city without informing the police.

He said the local police have been asked to keep a vigil on the suspect and inform the NIA if he ventures outside Bareilly.

The NIA team also asked the suspect the reason for his presence in Karnataka on the day of the blast and why he moved to Bareilly afterwards.

The official added that the suspect was said to be preaching at a Karnataka centre, following which he stayed there for some months and returned to Bareilly after completing his work.

The NIA team obtained contact numbers from the preacher’s mobile phone book and was likely to check the credentials of all the persons who were in touch with the suspect.

The official said the agency could initiate action against the suspect if his involvement surfaced in the investigation.

The investigation agency suspected Al-Hind Islamic State module was behind the blast and apprehended that it was linked with the Mangaluru cooker blast of November 2022 due to a similarity in the timer and detonator devices in the IEDs used in the Rameshwaram Cafe and the cooker blasts.

Here are 10 facts on the big story:

Prohibitory orders banning large gatherings have been imposed across the state and additional security personnel deployed in the Banda, Mau, Ghazipur and Varanasi districts.
The jailed gangster was rushed to the hospital in Banda after he fell unconscious at a district jail on Thursday night. A few hours later, he was declared dead by the doctors at the Rani Durgavati Medical College.
While the hospital says the cause of death was a cardiac arrest, Mukhtar Ansari’s son and his brother have demanded a probe as they believe he was poisoned while in jail.
“Two days ago I came to meet him, but I was not allowed. Despite being unwell, he was sent to jail. If the stomach was bloated then how could there be a heart attack? In the video that went viral, you can see that his stomach was bloated. His condition was serious. He was brought to be admitted to the ICU. But after 12-14 hours he was sent back to jail,” his son Umar Ansari told the media.
A panel of five doctors will conduct the postmortem today. A large force of police personnel has been deployed outside the Banda hospital where Mukhtar died.
Ansari, who hailed from Mau, was believed to have a strong influence in the adjoining Ghazipur and Varanasi districts as well. A large crowd has already gathered outside the former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA’s house in Ghazipur.
Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Prashant Kumar that as a precautionary measure, Section 144 of the CrPC has been imposed across the state.
Central Reserve Police Force has also been called in to assist the police. CRPF units have already been deployed in Banda, Mau, Ghazipur, and Varanasi.
The social media cell of the Uttar Pradesh Police is also on high alert to track “unlawful elements” that may try to spark a riot.
Mukhtar Ansari was a former five-time MLA from Mau Sadar seat and had 60 criminal cases pending against him. He was sentenced in eight cases since September 2022 by different courts of UP and was lodged in the Banda jail.