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CPM asks govt to pursue CMP instead of nuke deal

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IBM India Lab develops data security solution for call centres

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Plastic Electronics have a bright future in Flexible Laptops

TDI Bureau

July 3: With market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry from 1.5 to 15 million pounds, by 2014,it is no wonder that scientist and government are keen to advance research into  "plastic Electronics" that c ould not conduct electricity, but ground-breaking research in the 1970s proved that some plastics could do so. Now, more than thirty years later some of the potential applications of these breakthrough materials -- electronic billboards, flexible laptops, high-definition television screens only one centimetre thick -- are coming to light.

Plastic-based transistors and organic light-emitting displays are set to shake the electronics market. Transistors, the fundamental building block in modern  

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The British Library presents 120 paintings from 

 ^{July 3: For the first time nearly 120 paintings from the British Library’s lavishly illustrated 17th century Ramayana manuscripts are on  public display in its summer exhibition: The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic, 16 May – 14 September 2008. The Mewar Ramayana manuscripts were produced between 1649 and 1653 for Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar in his court studio at Udaipur . Illustrated on the grandest scale, with over 400 paintings. Two volumes have been identified as being painted by}

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Dia Mirza is presently enjoying playing the role of a mean girl who is good at being utterly bad.

The actress with an angelic face has shed her dainty image for director Sanjay Gupta 's film Acid Factory in which she is the only girl in the male-dominated cast. Not just this, she plays a wicked girl who gives real bad time to the boys.

The movie has Dia doing some gravity defying stunts using cables and ropes. She has been jumping from dizzy heights, doing 360-degree spins mid air, and locking in hand-to-hand combat with men.

The stunts though have been taking a toll on Dia's body and

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