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L&T Technology Services lends tech, financial support to IIT Madras’ Avishkar team for Hyperloop project

CHENNAI : Indian Institute of Technology Madras Students’ Team Avishkar Hyperloop has received investment from global pure-play engineering services provider L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) to develop innovations in the Hyperloop landscape

The visionary has invented or invested in numerous breakthrough technologies.

The Pittsburgh metropolitan region now is down to a single proposed hyperloop system project, which if built would have the power to speed passengers to Chicago in less than an hour in special pods.

A proposed hyperloop line that promised to provide high-speed travel from Chicago to Columbus and Pittsburgh appears to be dead in its tracks, at least for now.

Last month Virgin Hyperloop laid off over 100 staff and abandoned its effort to be the first people carrying hyperloop. What now?

20 members of the Eastern European replacement crew who were drafted in following the sacking scandal were pictured being shown around the docked Pride of Hull in Yorkshire.

Workers refused to leave their ships after being told in a pre-recorded three-minute video they were being fired with immediate effect by Stephen Nee, the companys laughably titled employee relations chief.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is led by General Secretary Mick Lynch, whose name is now notorious among London commuters as the public face of a recent wave of Tube strikes.

Mr Shapps said the company had only let a very small group of officials know about the decision on Wednesday evening, meaning it was far too late for the Government to intervene.