Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a ceremony for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail project - AFP

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone of a £14.4bn high-speed train project in his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s western home state of Gujarat on Thursday. At a time when Japan and China are locked in an intense rivalry for providing this technology to countries around the world, Japan’s Rs 88,000 crore-soft loan to India will cement a long-standing friendship between the two countries.
Japan agrees to help with the construction of an Indian bullet train.