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Now, an Indian website for BPO matchmaking - Bposhaadi.com!

Now, an Indian website for BPO matchmaking - Bposhaadi.com!London, Aug 10 : The taboo of having unsociable working hours retracts many Indian males from marrying female call centre executives. But this won''t be the scene anymore, thanks to Bposhaadi. com - a website that offers to put female call centre staff in touch with possible suitors working in the BPOs.

With growing numbers of India''s lady call centre workers reporting problems finding husbands, Bposhaadi. com certainly proves to be a saviour.

Charles Darwin''s inconclusive theory - do blondes have more fun?

Charles Darwin''s inconclusive theory - do blondes have more fun?London, Aug 10 : His contributions in the field of science are immense, but Charles Darwin also devoted a part of his time in unravelling a rather less weighty puzzle: do blondes have more fun?

According to letters that have been discovered as a part of a major project of Darwin, the great Victorian naturalist used his formidable intellect to find whether hair colour affects a woman''s ability to find a mate.

RIM Rolls Out ‘Blackberry Bold’ To Take On Apple’s iPhone

Canada-based technology giant Research in Motion (RIM) has made RIM Rolls Out ‘Blackberry Bold’ To Take On Apple’s iPhoneannouncement about the launching of its new smartphone ‘Blackberry Bold’ in Austria with the intention to take on rival Apple’s iPhone 3G.

Targeting business segment, the newly launched 3G-enabled phone comes packed with a half-VGA LCD display with 480x320 resolution, full QWERTY keyboard, powerful 624 MHz processor and 1GB internal storage memory.

UK Health Minister warns social service chiefs to shape up or ship out

Britain's Health Minister Ivan LewisLondon, Aug. 10: Britain's social services chiefs have been warned by the Gordon Brown Government that they will lose their responsibility for care unless they step up on improvements over the next three years.

According to a report in The Independent, over 370 nursing and care homes have been given "no star" ratings after the independent Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) assessed their services as "poor".

David Miliband leadership bid challenged by UK Schools Minister

David Miliband leadership bid challenged by UK Schools MinisterLondon, Aug. 10 : British Foreign Secretary David Miliband''s attempt to project himself as the rightful successor to incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hit a roadblock of sorts, with UK''s Minister of State for Schools, Jim Knight, becoming the first member of the government to criticize him publicly.

150 UFO sightings in UK in 2008

UFOLondon, Aug. 10: The British Ministry of Defence has said that 150 apparent 'flying saucers' have been reported to it, the police and military bases in 2008 so far, compared to 135 in 2007 and 97 in 2006.

These figures were released under the Freedom of Information Act, and according to The Sunday Telegraph suggest that 2008 will be a bumper year for alien activity.

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