Jamshedpur, April 29: AHA Air Hostess Academy opened its 39th branch on Kalimati Road in Sakchi today.

The officials AHA cited the exodus of students to nearby areas for training as one of the main reasons for this move.

Inaugurating the centre, the officials of AHA said that they have been a pioneer in this field since past 10 years now. It was started as a brain child of Sapna Gupta and Akash Gupta. The academy has to its credit 90 per cent growth in student enrolment. It has also got a validation from Cambridge University.

Currently starting with a one-year diploma in Aviation and Hospitality Management, the centre hopes to expand its course variety in the days to come.

Jamshedpur, April 29: Information blended with a lot of fun: that is what promises to keep children studying at both the schools run by Jusco busy from today.

The school authorities have incorporated the latest tech-savvy method of imparting education to children by using modules designed by Educomp Solutions Limited.

With five classrooms at South Park School and three at Kadma School being designed to conduct the technology-oriented classes, the schools are happy with the feedback taken from the schoolteachers alone. “It is a very innovative concept designed with the objective to make classroom studies more interesting, rather than make them concentrate on textbook learning, the effort is on developing their concepts right from the formative years,” said Madhu Singh, the principal of both the Jusco schools.

In each of the eight classrooms, the blackboard has been replaced by a sliding digiboard, which acts as the perfect cover of the TV screen which doubles as the display board. Connected to the main server, each teacher gets to choose the modules according to their requirement from the available database of more than 40,000 pieces on as many as 12 subjects.

Jamshedpur, April 28: Tennis, in the state, is on a roll. And officials are trying to ensure that the phase continues.

If increased participation in national tourneys, three state cadets making it to the top 50 rankings in India, exchange programmes with top players of neighbouring states scheduled in May were not enough, state officials will now explore tennis talent in schools.

State officials as well as those under Jharkhand Tennis Development Scheme (JTDS) now want to initiate mini tennis in city-based schools. Their objective is to tap talents at the grassroots level and provide them training under experts. Officials said that they would approach the different schools to discuss a suitable time without disturbing the routine.

“We can take the lunch time or post-school session and organise mini tennis matches and see how the children fare. There would be experts watching and those having the talent can be taken up and given further training to make them into better players,” said an official.

Jamshedpur, April 28: There will be no respite from the sweltering condition at least in the next 72 hours.

The meteorological department today warned of a heatwave condition in various parts of the state as there is no possibility of rainfall in the next three days.

“The maximum temperature will continue to rise due to the westerly winds dominating the state. We find no signs of rain in the chart analysis. In the prevailing condition, the mercury is likely to reach 45°C in the next 72 hours,” said T.N. Jha, the director of Patna meteorological office.

The Patna Met office today issued heatwave warning for Daltonganj, Gumla, Koderma, Hazaribagh and Singhbhum-Kolhan region.

“The satellite pictures suggested that there will be no change in the wind pattern for some more days. There are also no chances of formation of cumulonimbus clouds which generally bring rains,” added Jha.