New Delhi, April 16 -- The launch of the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express by Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled on April 19 has been has been postponed due to bad weather.

Modi was scheduled to inaugurate the much-awaited Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail Project (USBRL), the World's tallest Chenab Rail Bridge and Anji Khad Rail Bridge on April 19 besides flagging off the special Kashmir edition of Vande Bharat Express from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Railway Station to Srinagar.

"The Prime Minister was scheduled to visit Chenab Rail Bridge and Anji Khad Bridge, for which two helipads were readied, but due to the bad weather forecast from April 19 to 22, the visit has been postponed," news agency UNI quoted official sources as sa...