This story requires our BI Prime membership.
To read the full article, simply click here to claim your deal and get access to all exclusive Business Insider PRIME content.
December 16, 2019: British business magnate Richard Branson was in Mumbai last week to discuss the Pune-Mumbai hyperloop project with Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and launch the new London-Mumbai flight of Virgin Atlantic.
In 2008, Virgin Hyperloop One has committed to working with the state government to create the world’s first hyperloop transport project in between Mumbai and Pune to bring down the travel time from 3 hours to 30 minutes.
Virgin Atlantic had previously launched London-Mumbai flight in 2005 and 2012 only to withdraw them eventually in 2009 and 2015.
“I’ve always been so inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people.
I’m so excited that they’ve embraced the hyperloop concept and share our vision of creating new and sustainable transportation for the region,” said Richard Branson.
“The fact that Virgin Atlantic has returned to the Mumbai route for the third time shows how if you’re willing to accept when something isn’t working, and look at other options (hopefully to return to it when conditions are more favourable), then you might have a stronger shot at success,” he added.
The race to space is heating up indeed.Yesterday, Sir Richard Branson became the first person to reach space in a vehicle that he funded himself.
As far as Sundays go, his was quite eventful.He beat jeffbezos by nine days to achieve this feat.
Bezos is going to space on July 20th in a shuttle designed by his own company Blue Origin.Do these billionaire expeditions help in democratising space travel in the future?
If so, to what extent?Read further by clicking on the link below.https://transfin.in/branson-vs-bezos-a-2021-space-odyssey
Get far more info about virgin maryAnd yet, must devotion to the Virgin Mary be the exclusive domain of Catholics?
Or is this a valuable spiritual heritage that Jesus left not only for Catholics - but for everybody, which includes our non-Catholic brethren?It really is fascinating to note that an growing trend at present will be the conversion of numerous previously high-profile non-Catholics towards the Catholic Faith.
Fierce attackers of devotion towards the Virgin Mary throughout their non-Catholic days, these non-Catholic converts, upon converting to Catholicism, ironically end up the fiercest defenders of devotion towards the Virgin Mary.
Actually, lots of of those converts attribute their conversion to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.One such convert is Steve Ray, a prominent Catholic convert who previously tried nearly the whole spectrum of several sects - Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist, Evangelical, and so forth.
Eventually, he discovered true which means and happiness upon progressively reading book upon book, particularly those by early Church fathers.Interestingly, Steve Ray notes that their choice to enter the Church was on January 1st, the Feast of your excellent Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
He could have come in a cloud of glory, inside a blazing chariot.