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House panel adopts Lokpal draft but hurdles remain
Leaves it on House to decide on PM inclusion
Discussion likely to begin by December 19
3 Cong MPs submit dissent notes on leaving Group C employees out of Lokpal ambit
New Delhi, December 7
Wednesday was supposed to be the day when the Parliamentary committee on Lokpal would have met for the one last time to formally adopt the report on the anti-corruption Bill it has been reviewing since August.

FDI put on hold as govt stoops to conquer
Parliament begins work as 15-day logjam ends
New Delhi, December 7
The 15-day logjam, which cost nine working days in this winter session of Parliament and made the 15th Lok Sabha the most 'disrupted’ since 1985, ended this morning.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee after the all-party meeting on FDI in retail in New Delhi on Wednesday. — PTI

Business page: Industry disappointed

Protesting EGS teachers gherao CM, manhandled
Agitators threaten to spoil Badal’s birthday bash today
Gidderbaha, December 7
Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers, mostly women, were manhandled by the police when they gheraoed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s convoy at Sukhna Ablu village in Muktsar district today.

Cops take away a protesting woman who tried to stop CM Parkash S Badal’s motorcade in Muktsar. Tribune photo

Punjab page: Slapgate: Dy CM evades queries

SC quashes CBI case against Saini
New Delhi, December 7
The Supreme Court today quashed the CBI case against Punjab’s Vigilance Bureau chief Sumedh Singh Saini for the “elimination” of three persons in 1991, including Balwant Singh Bhullar and Manjit Singh, father and maternal uncle, respectively, of death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar.

SUV cash haul: Karmapa named conspirator
Una police files chargesheet against nine others as well
Dharamsala, December 7
Ten months after Rs 1 crore was confiscated from a SUV at Himachal’s Mehatpur barrier, the Una police today presented a chargesheet against nine accused and named 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee as one of the conspirators in the case.

Sick Zardari flies to Dubai, fuels resignation rumours Beleaguered Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was on Tuesday flown to Dubai after suffering a minor heart attack, triggering intense speculation in the country and abroad about his ability to continue in office. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says he is undergoing heart treatment but is stable, will return after medical clearance