India is in talks to buy its first bullet trains for the nation's creaking and accident-prone network, but the new fleet will run at only a fraction of its top speed, a report said on Wednesday.

China's second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons, the firm said on Friday, dealing a fresh blow to the nation's scandal

Aiming at connecting Patna with high speed train, the railways will undertake a pre- feasibility study of Delhi-Patna rail route, which would be conducted by a British firm.