{"id":1116,"date":"2018-09-13T06:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:16:59","slug":"wah-kolkata-to-china-in-few-hours-new-bullet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Wah.. Kolkata to China in few hours.. New Bullet train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>Chinese Consul-General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu said his country was mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities,\u201d Mr. Ma said at a conference in Kolkata. \u201cIt will only take a few hours to reach Kolkata from Kunming if the rail link becomes a reality,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy also said that Myanmar and Bangladesh would benefit from the project. \u201cWe may have a cluster of industries along the route. That increases the possibility of economic development of countries involved in the 2,800 km-long project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The project had also found mention at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) meeting at Kunming in 2015, he said. The rail route was aimed at boosting trade flow in the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) corridor, Mr. Ma said, adding that his country has been striving for the revival of Silk Route to increase connectivity from Kunming to Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Chinese Consul-General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu said his country was mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh. \u201cWith joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities,\u201d Mr. Ma said at a conference in Kolkata. \u201cIt will only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}