Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Japan has offered to finance India’s first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than 1 percent, officials said, stealing a march on China, which is bidding for other projects on the world’s fourth-largest network. Tokyo was picked to assess the feasibility of building the 505-kilometre corridor linking Mumbai with Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, and concluded it would be technically and financially viable. The project to build and supply the route will be put out to tender, but offering financing makes Japan the clear frontrunner. In September China won the contract to assess the...
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