{"id":6302,"date":"2015-12-14T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:58:41","slug":"japan-india-sign-bullet-train-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/japan-india-sign-bullet-train-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan & India sign bullet train deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Japan<\/a>India has agreed to buy a high-speed bullet train from Japan, in an attempt to transform its creaking rail system.
\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi said the train would link Mumbai and Ahmedabad, cutting travel time on the route from eight hours to two.
\nThe deal was one of a raft of agreements reached after talks between the two sides in Delhi.
\nThe leaders of Asia\u2019s second and third largest economies also announced other areas of co-operation.
\nThese include working on defence technology, and agreeing a memorandum of understanding on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
\nThe latter agreement is expected to allow Japan to export nuclear plant technologies to India.
\nLast week Mr Modi\u2019s cabinet cleared the $14.7bn (\u00a39.6bn) cost of building the bullet train system.
\nThe agreements with Japan came during a three-day visit to India by the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, which began on Friday.
\nBoth countries are in territorial disputes with China, and their new accords may be seen by some as a reaction against China\u2019s growing influence in the region. -BBC<\/p>\n

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