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City bus stand gets ready for a new voyage

Jalandhar, August 23 Another month to go and the city bus stand will be reopened with a brand new look. While most of the construction work is over, it is now being given the finishing touches.

City bus stand adorns a new look as work on its reconstruction nears completion. —Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

ATMA-farmers tie-up to boost rural economy
Kapurthala, August 23
An Agriculture Technology Management Agency, (ATMA), has been set up in Kapurthala district under the centrally sponsored scheme ‘Support to state extension programme for extension reforms’.

Trader robbed of Rs 1.5 lakh
Phillaur, August 23
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants took away Rs 1.5 lakh from a trader, Narinder Singh, on the Phagwara-Dosanjh-Kalan road last evening.

Army conducts campus placement at DAVIET Jalandhar, August 23 A three-officer team of the Army conducted a campus placement at the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology under the university entrance scheme. Nearly 120 students studying in the final year of various engineering disciplines appeared for the interview.

Camp for grooming future soldiers Kapurthala, August 23 A 12-day pre-Army camp from August 18 to 29 is being held at Theh Kanjla here. The camp will play a major role in grooming the future soldiers of the Army.As many as 370 cadets, drawn from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chandigarh, are participating in the camp. Cadets undergo training at a pre-Army camp being held at Theh Kanjla in Kapurthala on Thursday

‘Include landless labourers for atta-dal’
Jalandhar, August 23
Dehati Mazdoor Sabha has decided to fight for the inclusion of names those labourers who have been left out of the list of beneficiaries under the atta-dal scheme after a government survey.

Atta-dal: 2 ration depots booked
Phagwara, August 23
The Punjab government today ordered registration of an FIR against two ration depots in Mohali and Jalandhar districts under various sections of the IPCand CrPC for various irregularities, including diversion of stocks of wheat and pulses, detected during intensive checking campaign launched by the food and civil supplies department to ensure delivery of proper quality and quantity of atta and dal to the blue card holders. 

It is child’s play school Begin early and half the battle is won. That’s the dictum that defines all the sweat and toil the young parents are putting into their tiny tots today, with the choice of a good play school being the first step.To give their child a headstart in life, these ambitious parents leave no stone unturned when it comes to looking for the best for the little ones. Parents are grooming their tiny tots through pre-school activities in some of the city’s best play schools. — A Tribune photo

Market Buzz
Leaptop experience carnival by HCL
Jalandhar, August 23
HCL Infosystems Limited, one of the largest PC manufacturers in several computer segments, inaugurated an HCL leaptop experience carnival in Jalandhar last week.

Fun of fraction
Have you ever written 1/9 in the decimal form? If yes, you might have observed the result carefully. If not, let us see how fraction 1/9 leads to an interesting result.