Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: Aftercreating history of sorts with the launch of world’s first Bhojpuri language portal, the city software firm — Infogate is set to scale newer heights.

Come next week, this Bistupur-based firm would launch a one of its kind online travel portal from the steel city.

It will be christened flyagents.com.

“Thanks to my first venture, bhojpuria.com. I got a chance to travel across the globe. It was during these visits that I realised how painstaking bookings could be. Therefore we at Infogate decided to launch this unique portal which can address all our travel needs,” said Sudhir Kumar, director of the firm.

To be launched in a span of six to seven days, the portal is unique in all ways. To begin with the portal would not only provide online booking facilities of hotels and airlines across India, but also all over the world.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: Chinese, Japanese, Bengali and Ho are the languages that would be taught at Language Resource Centre at Karim City College from now on.

To be introduced in the next academic session these languages would be added to the current list, which includes German, French, Arabic, Santhali and Urdu.

“We thought that a few more additions in the language centre would help students,” said S.M. Yahiya Ibrahim, the co-ordinator of the Language Resource Centre at the college. The programmes were formally inaugurated today by some top brass in the city’s corporate world.

The ceremony was attended by executives like Hemant Nerurkar, chief operating officer of Tata Steel, Partho Sengupta, vice-president of corporate services in Tata Steel and B.L. Raina, the managing director of Tinplate Company of India Limited.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: If the IT sector is head hunting from the steel city, can the fashion industry be far behind?

After setting up shop here, international brands are for the first time choosing designers from the city’s fashion institutes.

Come March, students from International Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD), Jamshedpur, would appear for placement interviews for leading global brands including Tommy Hilfiger, United Colors of Benetton and Esprit.

“It is indeed a great achievement for Jamshedpur-based institutes to send their students for campus interviews conducted by leading fashion giants,” said Neetu Manikatalia, the centre director of INIFD, Jamshedpur.

The move comes in the wake of the institute’s tie-up with Istituto di Moda Burgo, Milan, an international fashion school of Italy, in 2007.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: Police believe the principal and the games teacher of DAV Public School (Bistupur) were “negligent” in handling the sudden death of nine-year-old Harshdeep Singh Kalsi on campus early this month.

Deputy superintendent of police Dinesh Oraon, who supervised the probe, added that three of Harshdeep’s classmates — named in the FIR lodged by his father Paramjit — had indeed assaulted him earlier in the day.

Superintend of police Naveen K. Singh, who has received the report but is yet to go through it, said those named may be arrested.

Harshdeep, in Class II of DAV Public School in Bistupur, died under mysterious circumstances after collapsing on campus on February 8. He was rushed to the Tata Main Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.