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...T V Narendran, the Tata Steel chief executive, said last week he did not rule out such a plant, if conditions were right....
...Tripathi also said he never received any benefits from sums paid by Signifier into Co V, which was owned by a close friend....
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...The 16th-century artwork, nearly 3.5 metres tall, depicts Saint Jerome’s vision of John the Baptist revealing the Virgin and Jesus. It has a rich history....
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...In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...The town of Guadalupe, whose eponymous Virgin is the patroness of Extremadura, Mexico and much of Latin America besides, is worth the journey for Francisco de Zurbarán’s luminous portraits of Hieronymite...
...The recycled material is not homogeneous like virgin plastic, he says. Close-up it shows little flecks, traces of the varied packaging it once was....
...Tata Steel’s chief executive, T V Narendran, warned that time was running short to make the business sustainable given high energy prices....
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...You see the effect in Mantegna’s statuesque “Virgin and Child” (c1490-95) and the sculptural texture of the rippling saffron and pink robes in Masaccio’s “St Paul” (1426)....
...Guedes said the country had entered a “V-shaped” recovery and would grow as much as 2.1 per cent next year, aided by investment commitments from the private sector of more than $100bn....
...“If you look at, say, a Leonardo drawing of the head of the Virgin Mary, it looks effervescent. There’s something unreal about it – and one of the secrets is this paper.”...
...Airlines including United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are hoping to use them to ferry business and first-class passengers rapidly to airports to board long-haul flights....
...Our introduction to Crivelli’s startling world is “Virgin and Child” (c1480). On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...“All of these systems are very complicated and don’t cover all the emissions,” said Jaime Ramos, manager of the global equities climate transition fund at Aviva Investors....
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...It was only two years ago – the same year that Richard Branson announced Virgin Orbit’s mission to Mars – that Virgin Atlantic offered its female flight attendants trousers as part of their core uniform...
...The aircraft, which American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and others have also bought, are still some years away from commercial flights....
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