Jammu, April 30 -- Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said a "new stream of development" has been flowing in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370, as he flagged off a 20-coach Vande Bharat train between Jammu and Srinagar following massive public demand.

Railway minister Vaishnaw recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the Jammu-Srinagar rail link a year ago with an eight-coach train from Katra. "That train is now running at 100 per cent capacity, and demand is very high. Normally, when an eight-coach train fills up, we increase it to 16 coaches. When that fills, we make it 20 coaches. Here, demand is so high that we directly moved to 20 coaches," he said.

The minister informed that over 5....