{"id":31914,"date":"2020-10-19T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=31914"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:06:48","slug":"zero-rajdhani-bypasses-guwahati-to-bridge-time-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/zero-rajdhani-bypasses-guwahati-to-bridge-time-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zero Rajdhani\u2019 bypasses Guwahati to bridge time gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bogibeel, India\u2019s longest rail-and-road bridge across the Brahmaputra, had in December 2018 brought the two \u201cemotionally connected\u201d banks of eastern Assam closer by more than seven hours. A \u2018zero Rajdhani\u2019 train via this 4.94 km bridge has now brought the people of the two banks closer to New Delhi by more than 100 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 02505\/02506 between New Delhi and Dibrugarh on October 12 is technically not a Rajdhani, a superfast train whose number starts with 2 while those of mail express trains start with 1. The zero makes it a special train, the likes of which are operated temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railway officials said the special \u2018Rajdhani\u2019 could be the first of its kind, deviating from the definition of such trains \u2013 connecting the national capital with the capitals or nearest largest city of the States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train bypasses Guwahati, Assam\u2019s principal city and the original terminal for the Rajdhani, by some 50 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogibeel, India\u2019s longest rail-and-road bridge across the Brahmaputra, had in December 2018 brought the two \u201cemotionally connected\u201d banks of eastern Assam closer by more than seven hours. A \u2018zero Rajdhani\u2019 train via this 4.94 km bridge has now brought the people of the two banks closer to New Delhi by more than 100 km. Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":31915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[2996,66],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-31914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2020","tag-assam-current-affairs-2","tag-railway-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31916,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions\/31916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31914"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=31914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}