New Delhi, July 3 -- In a major push for mega-infrastructure collaboration, Japan has reaffirmed its commitment to extending all necessary cooperation to meet India's target of commencing commercial operations on priority sections of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project by 2027.

According to the joint statement by the Ministry of External Affairs after the bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi in New Delhi, the flagship bullet train project anchors a comprehensive joint agreement between the two leaders, who acknowledged the milestone goal of introducing E10 trains to the network.

Looking to the future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi explicitly invited Japanese companies t...