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    TURKEY'S EUROPEAN ASPIRATIONS
    WITH TURKEY UNDERTAKING reforms in several spheres in order to fulfil the criteria for admission to the European Union, the West is confronted with an intriguing problem. Membership talks could begin by the middle of 2005 if the positive report ...

    PRIORITIES IN BANK CONSOLIDATION
    FINANCIAL SECTOR CONSOLIDATION in India, a perennial theme of the economic reform agenda, has gained topicality with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and senior government officials advocating mergers between banks as a means to speed up the ...

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    LAW AND SOCIETY
    Terrorism by ordinance
    By Rajeev Dhavan

    The Unlawful Activities Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance 2004 is an unsatisfactory half-hearted measure that leaves matters resolved halfway.

    Moving forward on Kashmir
    By C. Raja Mohan

    In moving beyond the traditional posturing on Kashmir, Manmohan Singh and Pervez Musharraf have created a template in which their representatives can explore the elements of a final settlement.

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    INSIDE NEPAL - I
    Thinking aloud on rule without a king
    By Siddharth Varadarajan

    KATHMANDU, SEPT. 30. It is a paradox of political life in Nepal that of all the demands raised by the Maoist insurgents in the past few years, their call for a democratically elected Constituent Assembly has proved to be the most subversive one. ...

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