{"id":13691,"date":"2023-11-18T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/banaras-visakhapatnam-express-via-sambalpur-to-run-from-nov-22-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T14:03:48","slug":"banaras-visakhapatnam-express-via-sambalpur-to-run-from-nov-22-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/banaras-visakhapatnam-express-via-sambalpur-to-run-from-nov-22-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Banaras-Visakhapatnam Express via Sambalpur to run from Nov 22 &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-504615\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will flag off the extension of Banaras-Sambalpur-Banaras bi-weekly Express up to Visakhapatnam on November 20.<\/p>\n<p>The two Union Ministers will flag off the train at Sambalpur Railway Station in the afternoon of November 20, said a statement issued by the Ministry of Railways today.<\/p>\n<p>Sambalpur MP Nitesh Gangadev and Sambalpur MLA and Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly Jayanarayan Mishra will also participate in the programme.<\/p>\n<p>MPs Suresh Pujari, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Niranjan Bishi, Basanta Kumar Panda and Sujeet Kumar will grace the function through videoconference from Bargarh, Balangir and Kesinga railway stations.<\/p>\n<p>On the inaugural day, the train will be flagged off from Sambalpur towards Visakhapatnam as a special train. However, the regular service of the extended portion of the train will commence from Visakhapatnam on November 22 and from Banaras on November 23, Railways sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Extension of the Banaras-Sambalpur Express up to Visakhapatnam is a game-changer for the people of Southern and Western Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>However, the scheduled timings and stoppages for the train between Sambalpur and Banaras will not be disturbed due to the extension, sources added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will flag off the extension of Banaras-Sambalpur-Banaras bi-weekly Express up to Visakhapatnam on November 20. The two Union Ministers will flag off the train at Sambalpur Railway Station in the afternoon of November 20, said a statement issued by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13693,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691\/revisions\/13693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}