India, Feb. 25 -- IIT Madras, with support from the Ministry of Railways, has now developed India's first hyperloop test track which is 422 meters long and allows a high-speed train to travel in a near-vacuum tube at speeds of more than 1,000 km/h.

"Government-academia collaboration is driving innovation in futuristic transportation," Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw wrote in a post on X.

The hyperloop track showed that about 350 km can be covered in just 30 minutes. This means that if it is implemented in the real world, passengers can travel from Delhi to Jaipur, which is roughly 300 km, in less than half an hour.

"The first pod of 422 meters will go a long way in developing technologies," Vaishnaw said. "I think the time has come whe...