NEW DELHI -- India on Thursday inched closer to its dream of getting a bullet train when Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone for the country's first high-speed rail link based on Japan's famed shinkansen technology.
Economy
PM Modi and Japan's Abe launch Indian shinkansen project
$17bn railway expected to serve 15 million a year, create thousands of jobs
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, celebrate the beginning of construction on a high-speed rail project in Ahmadabad, India on Sept. 14. (Photo by Yuji Kuronuma)
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