{"id":315405,"date":"2019-10-03T05:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315405"},"modified":"2019-10-03T05:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:21:14","slug":"union-home-minister-amit-shah-flags-off-delhi-katra-vande-bharat-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-flags-off-delhi-katra-vande-bharat-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Amit Shah flags off Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315406 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shah-train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shah-train.jpg 748w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shah-train-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shah-train-696x235.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday flagged off Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express train from New Delhi railway station. He congratulated the\u00a0Indian Railways for the Vande Bharat Express between Delhi and Katra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vande Bharat Express will begin its commercial run between New Delhi and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra from October 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was also present at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at the function, Goyal said that the new Vande Bharat Express is the fastest train between Delhi and Katra Vaishno Devi. He also congratulated Indian Railways engineers for their hard work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vande Bharat Express, which is popularly known as Train 18 will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Mata Vaishno Devi Katra stations to just 8 hours from the current 12 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday flagged off Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express train from New Delhi railway station. He congratulated the\u00a0Indian Railways for the Vande Bharat Express between Delhi and Katra. Vande Bharat Express will begin its commercial run between New Delhi and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra from October 5. Union Railway Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1194,10806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315407,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315405\/revisions\/315407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}