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Chandigarh
6 teachers to be awarded: The National Award to Teachers-2013 will be conferred on six teachers of the state by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development in New Delhi on Teachers’ Day. The selected teachers are Sunita Nandal, Aarti Sethi, Narender Goss, Dharam Singh, Ved Vati and Satbir Singh.
Jind
Rs 14.50 lakhs snatched: Two motorcyclists snatched Rs 14.50 lakhs at pistol point from a manager of a local petrol pump on the Rohtak road. Police have registered a case and started investigations. Parvesh, a resident of Akalgarh village, who works as a manager at the Malik filing station, was going to State Bank of India when the incident took place.Rewari
Villagers protest: Residents of Tatarpur village on Monday held a demonstration outside the office of Food and Supply Department at Dhaaruhera town to protest inordinate delay in preparing ration cards of eligible beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act. The authorities had filled forms of 380 eligible beneficiaries but ration card of merely 112 beneficiaries had been made so far, they said. 
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Chamba
Villager dies after fall: A villager died after he slipped and fell into a gorge near Kalhel on the Chamba-Tissa road on Saturday, according to a report received here yesterday. It said the deceased has been identified as Abdul Latif of Naila village. The body was handed over to his family after the post-mortem.
Mandi
Police trace 23
missing persons: During a special drive, the police traced 23 persons missing from the district. The police said the drive (from July 28 to August 31) was launched to trace missing children and adults. The 23 missing persons, including 17 women, girls, three men and three boys, were traced from different parts of the state. They were traced by the Mandi police in coordination with special teams and police stations.
Solan
Father, son get
one-year RI: Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Gaurav Mahajan sentenced a father-son duo to one-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) and a fine of Rs 5,000 each for subjecting his daughter-in-law to cruelty. As per the judgment pronounced last week, husband Manish Ghai, a teacher in a residential school, and his father, Surinder Ghai, had been harassing his wife for dowry. Surinder had also been found guilty of making sexual advances towards her. The woman was also harassed for giving birth to two daughters. She was forced to fulfil their financial and other demands. Though the husband had promised her family in 2012 that he would behave well with the victim, the father-son duo kept subjecting her to physical and mental trauma, compelling her to file a complaint in April 2012.

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