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ultra-high-speed rail (UHSR), or hyperloop. The concept was first published by Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper, 'Hyperloop Alpha'. Hyperloop envisions pods carrying passengers or cargo in near-vacuum tubes at speeds approaching that of aircraft. Reduced friction and magnetic levitation enable significantly abbreviated travel times, reducing energy consumption and emissions compared to traditional modes. India commissioned a 422-m hyperloop test track — the world's longest — in December 2024, developed by Avishkar Hyperloop at IIT Madras, in collaboration with the Indian Railways and L&T Construction. Last month, TuTr Hyperloop, another IIT Madras-incubated deep-tech startup, working with Swisspod Technologies, conducted India's first commercial hyperloop pod test run.

honhar birwan ke hote chikne paat—suggests that the signs of future success are visible early. It sums up the early years of Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani—Dhirubhai—one of India’s greatest industrial empire builders, whose youth too shimmered with portents.Ambani passed away in July 2002, leaving behind a giant conglomerate whose market capitalization today exceeds $250 billion and a legacy that continues to shape Indian business.While the details of his professional life are household lore now, repeated across newspapers, magazines, and films, it’s his early life, vividly captured in Dhirubhai Ambani: The Man I Knew by Kokilaben, that provides fascinating clues to his career.

Elon Musk's travel to Mars will be deemed safe after tech mogul's mother visits the red planet. Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think very highly of tech billionaire Elon Musk's desperate desire to send humans to Mars and the two have been at loggerheads over the topic for long. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Neil deGrasse Tyson cracked the joke while speaking about the future of space tourism and if he was interested. «I joke about this — if you want me to get on an Elon rocket, I'll say first have him send his mother to Mars and back. Then I will go and know it's safe,» he told NDTV when asked about space exploration. ALSO READ: US recession chances thrice the normal rate now? Harvard Professor sounds alarm amid Trump's tariff initiative

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 25 February, the Avishkar Hyperloop student team from IIT-Madras and the railway ministry along with ArcelorMittal, Hindalco and Larsen & Toubro unveiled the Hyperloop test track. Once commissioned, it could cut Delhi-Jaipur travel (250km) to 30 minutes compared with 1 hour by air and 4–5 hours by road.

NDTV. ALSO READ: Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson reaches edge of space, and then returns This was Branson's gift to the passengers in honour of the ship's move to San Juan as its new homeport.

Mint explains the flight path of recovery and the challenges associated with it. Running an airline is a risky business. Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has famously said: “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." Revival of airlines is challenging as a profitable carrier is an output of several things, such as the right fuel price band, perfect aircraft type, solid maintenance contracts, great network, good slots at airports, skilled workforce etc.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business tycoon Richard Branson, allegedly having intimate relations with an unnamed woman. In a series of emails in 2016 to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan, she wrote about one of her friends, «She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples.» She also wrote that she knew she had intimate relations with Trump at Jeffery’s New York mansion on regular occasions.

Hyperloop One, the futuristic transportation company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is shutting down, according to people familiar with the situation.

Jeff Bezos heads back into space. The launch window from the pad in west Texas opens at 8:30 am local time (14H30 GMT), said Blue Origin, which plans to livestream the event. This mission known as NS-24 will not carry a crew but rather equipment for scientific experiments, more than half of which Blue Origin has developed in conjunction with NASA.

Investing.com — U.S. futures traded lower Monday, handing back some of the previous month's strong gains at the start of a new week.

The first transatlantic flight by a commercial jet powered solely by so-called sustainable aviation fuel has flown from London to New York

Mukesh Ambani owns one of the world’s most expensive private jets and even gifted his wife an Airbus A319 for her birthday. Gautam Adani has three private jets, housed in a $50 million hangar. Neither of them owns an airline, though.

The fund will be liquidated on 7 November 2023.

The funds aim to maintain a net asset value of $/€/£ 1 per share while any excess earnings generated through interest on the portfolio holdings will be distributed to investors via dividends.

Virgin Galactic has rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists

Virgin Galactic flight were 80-year-old former British Olympian Jon Goodwin and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. Goodwin bought his ticket in 2005 for $200,000, but didn't think he'd be able to make it after being diagnosed with Parkinson's.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Virgin Galactic on Thursday blasted three tourists to the edge of space aboard its air-launched VSS Unity spaceplane, a live stream showed, the Richard Branson-founded company's second commercial mission as it starts routine flights.

mother-daughter duo to journey into the cosmos. Their incredible journey will happen aboard Virgin Galactic's 'Galactic 02' flight, scheduled to take off from New Mexico on Thursday. In an interview for the BBC, Schahaff told that the remarkable story began when she, while on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Antigua to the UK, stumbled upon an ad about a space travel competition hosted by Virgin Galactic. Intrigued by the prospect of space travel, she decided to participate in the competition, never anticipating the destiny that awaited her. Months later, Schahaff received the news that she had not only made it to the top 20 finalists but had emerged as the ultimate winner, securing her seat on the space expedition.

ethos and much of the produce served in the two restaurants are grown in the estate's gardens and orchards. The next stage at the Son Bunyola estate will be to keep building paths to the sea and around the olive groves.

Elon Musk's efforts to put a man on the Moon, and possibly Mars, ended in mid-flight failure Thursday after SpaceX's Starship exploded shortly after taking off on its maiden flight from a launchpad in South Texas.

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