PM Modi to flag off nine Vande Bharat Express trains | Daily Current Affairs Dose

PM Modi to flag off nine Vande Bharat Express trains | Daily Current Affairs Dose

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PM Modi to flag off nine Vande Bharat Express trains | Daily Current Affairs Dose

PM Modi to flag off nine Vande Bharat Express: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off nine Vande Bharat Express trains on 24th September 2023 via video conferencing.

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These nine new Vande Bharat trains will boost connectivity across eleven states. New Vande Bharat Express trains provide world class experience to passengers and provide a boost to tourism.

9 new Vande Bharat trains flag off

The 9 new Vande Bharat trains that PM Modi will flag off are as follows:

1. Udaipur – Jaipur Vande Bharat Express
2. Tirunelveli-Madurai- Chennai Vande Bharat Express
3. Hyderabad –Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express
4. Vijayawada – Chennai (via Renigunta) Vande Bharat Express
5. Patna – Howrah Vande Bharat Express
6. Kasaragod - Thiruvananthapuram Vande Bharat Express
7. Rourkela - Bhubaneswar – Puri Vande Bharat Express
8. Ranchi – Howrah Vande Bharat Express
9. Jamnagar-Ahmedabad Vande Bharat Express

These nine Vande Bharat Express trains will boost connectivity across eleven states namely Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, Odisha, Jharkhand and Gujarat.

Background

These Vande Bharat Express will be the fastest train along the routes of their operation and will help save considerable time of the passengers.

As compared to the current fastest train along the route, Rourkela- Bhubaneswar – Puri Vande Bharat Express and Kasaragod - Thiruvananthapuram Vande Bharat Express will be faster by about 3 hours; Hyderabad – Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express by more than 2.5 hours; Tirunelveli-Madurai- Chennai Vande Bharat Express by more than 2 hours; Ranchi – Howrah Vande Bharat Express, Patna – Howrah Vande Bharat Express and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad Vande Bharat Express by about 1 hour; and Udaipur - Jaipur Vande Bharat Express by about half an hour.

Static Current Affairs related to India for upcoming exams

• President of India: Droupadi Murmu 
• Vice President of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar
• Prime Minister of India: Narendra Modi 
• Chief Justice of India: Justice DY Chandrachud
• Lok Sabha Speaker of India: Om Birla 
• Capital of India: New Delhi 
• Largest city of India: Mumbai 
• Official languages of India: Hindi / English 
• Currency of India: Indian rupee (₹) (INR) 
• Total Population of India 2023 estimate: 1,428,627,663 (1st)