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Value fashion and lifestyle products retailer V-Mart Retail Saturday said it has opened a new store in Bihar. The company has also closed a store in the state, it said in a BSE filing.

"With this total number of stores remains to 201 stores in 163 cities across 16 states and total the tally of stores in Bihar to 40," it said.

********** Pulwama attack: WPO offers assistance to children of martyrs

* World Punjabi Organisation (WPO) Saturday offered to adopt the children of all the Pulwama terror attack martyrs from Punjab. "WPO, announces that children of all the martyrs from Punjab will be adopted and all expenses of their education and bringing up will be borne by the organisation," WPO International President Vikramjit Singh Sahney said in a statement.