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Owned by Siasat DailyMangaluru-Bengaluru Vande Bharat train to start on Saturday: Vaishnaw
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Bengaluru‑Mangaluru‑Madgaon Vande Bharat Express on Friday in Bengaluru. The new Yesvantpur‑Madgaon service aims to improve rail connectivity between Bengaluru, coastal Karnataka and Goa, providing direct access to stations such as Hassan, Sakleshpur, Subrahmanya Road, Mangaluru, Udupi, Kundapura and Murdeshwar. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the Mangaluru‑Bengaluru Vande Bharat service will start on Saturday, linking the two major Karnataka hubs, and said that challenges on the steep ghat section, including electrification modifications, have been resolved. Ticket fares and exact timings were not disclosed in the reports.
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RSS excerpt
Mangaluru: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that a new Vande Bharat service between Mangaluru and Bengaluru will begin on Saturday, linking the coastal region with the state capital. “This is a very important service. It will connect the two major hubs in Karnataka,” Vaishnaw said before…