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June 6, 2025, 04:52 PM - 2 min read
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the railway link to Kashmir was a welcome development but asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release the political prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir if he sincerely sought to reduce the mistrust.
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June 6, 2025, 03:42 PM - 3 min read
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday raised statehood demands at the flagging off of the maiden train to Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Holy Katra town.
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June 6, 2025, 03:25 PM - 2 min read
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the first Vande Bharat Express train service between Katra and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. Modi inaugurated the train in the presence of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
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June 6, 2025, 03:08 PM - 2 min read
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the service will be extended to Jammu by September, once necessary platform upgrades are completed. A Delhi-Srinagar sleeper version of Vande Bharat is also in the pipeline.
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June 5, 2025, 08:02 PM - 3 min read
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, along with Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Jitendra Singh, arrived in Katra on Thursday to oversee final preparations ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Friday.
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June 5, 2025, 07:39 PM - 3 min read
A multipronged security plan has been put in place for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to inaugurate the much-awaited Kashmir rail link and also dedicate to the nation projects worth over Rs 46,000 crore in Katra, officials said.
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June 5, 2025, 06:46 PM - 5 min read
"If I say that I have been waiting for this day for a long time, it won't be an exaggeration. This project started when I was in school, maybe in class 7 or 8. Today, my children have also completed their education and are now working," Abdullah told mediapersons at the Katra Railway station.
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June 5, 2025, 02:51 PM - 2 min read
Besides, flagging off the first train to Kashmir, he will also lay the foundation stone of the road widening project from Rafiabad to Kupwara on National Highway-701 and the establishment of the Shopian road on National Highway worth over Rs 1,952 crore. Additionally, he is likely to inaugurate two flyover projects at Sangrama Junction on National Highway-1 in Srinagar and at Bemina Junction on National Highway-44. These projects are aimed at reducing traffic congestion and enhancing traffic flow for commuters, the statement further said.
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June 5, 2025, 02:40 PM - 2 min read
The train passes through towering peaks of the Himalayas, with hundreds of tunnels built by years of hard work, showing the technological prowess of India. The 111-kilometre-long stretch is part of the broader Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL), a transformative project designed to link the Kashmir Valley directly to the Indian mainland via a robust, all-weather railway network.
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June 3, 2025, 06:25 PM - 2 min read
Chenab rail bridge is a key part of the 272-km Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla railway link (USBRL) that will provide direct train connectivity to the valley
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