Sunday, November 18, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Govt pleads for POTO
 PM for debate
New Delhi, November 17
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today sought a “free and frank” debate on the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance and stressed for the setting up of a federal agency to pursue and combat cases of terrorism in the country.
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Punjab opposes
New Delhi, November 17
Speaking today at the Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security being held at Vigyan Bhavan here, the Punjab Finance Minister, Capt Kanwaljit Singh, strongly opposed POTO and the move to set up a federal agency on the pattern of the FBI even as he favoured suitable legislative protection to policemen fighting terrorism.
Capt Kanwaljit Singh, Finance Minister, Punjab, talks with Mr Chandra Babu Naidu Capt Kanwaljit Singh, Finance Minister, Punjab, talks with Mr Chandra Babu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh during the Chief Ministers’ conference on internal security at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday. 
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Maharashtra, Assam reject
New Delhi, November 17
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today bluntly told the Centre that “The ordinance had far reaching implications and in its present form, we are not in a position to support it.”

Taliban leaving Kandahar
Jets pound militia posts; Rabbani in Kabul
Islamabad, November 17
Amidst conflicting reports of Taliban withdrawal from their stronghold of Kandahar, former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani arrived today in Kabul.

Sinha plan to starve terrorists of funds
Ottawa, November 18
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha today suggested a seven-point action plan, including freezing of assets and curbing informal money transactions, to choke funds for terrorists.

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Miss Nigeria is Miss World
Agbani Darego Sun City, November 17
Agbani Darego of Nigeria won the 2001 Miss World contest at the Sun City resort in South Africa, saying that the joy of victory was “just indescribable”. Darego, an 18-year-old computer science student, tall, athletically built, and with shoulder-length hair, is a hiker, a dancer, and has the ambition to become a supermodel.

The Maharaja’s birthplace
Chandigarh, November 17
While the year-long bicentenary celebrations of the coronation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh will conclude after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee addresses a public rally at New Amritsar on Sunday, debate on certain issues, including exact place of birth of the Maharaja, may continue for the time to come. 
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The historic room in the haveli at Gujranwala where Maharaja Ranjit Singh was born.
The historic room in the haveli at Gujranwala where Maharaja Ranjit Singh was born.

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