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Co-workers are always a great topic of conversation. You never run out of things to say when it comes to talking about the different types of people you work with, what you love, what you hate and how you deal with it all.

The Kyrgyz president says he would not resign despite the opposition’s assertion that it had ousted the government following days of bloody civil unrest in the central Asian nation.

Gross margin for outsourcing services was45.3%for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 compared to 43.7% for the quarterended December 31, 2008. Migratingprocessesfor four recently acquired clients.–Gained significant traction in expanding relationships intransformationservices that are annuity in nature across clients in insurance,retailbanking and credit cards.–Reported record low quarterly attrition of 21.0% for billableemployeescompared to 34.3% for the first quarter of 2008 and 33.8% for thefourthquarter of 2008.–Extended the scope of a contract with a top 10 U.S. insurance companyincluding a contract value anticipated to exceed $100 million over 5years to provide insurance domain-specific processing, analytics, andfinance and accounting services.–Renewed a strategic outsourcing contract with our largest client,Centrica, PLC (British Gas), through April 2012 with the option tofurther extend the contract for two annual periods.Other Business Announcements–Vishal Chhibbar will join EXL as Chief Financial Officer effectiveJune1, 2009. Vishal joins from GE Capital where he was most recentlyRegional Head, Group Financial Planning, Strategy and Treasury forAustralia and New Zealand. Previously, Vishal was the Chief FinancialOfficer for GE Capital South Korea and prior to that assignment theChief Financial Officer for GE Capital Indonesia and Malaysia.

Vishalisa Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree fromDAVCollege, Dehradun.2009 Outlook The Company is maintaining its guidance for calendar year 2009:–Revenues between $170.0 million to $175.0 million–Adjusted operating margin, excluding the impact of stock-basedcompensation expense and amortization of intangibles, between 10.0%and12.0%Conference Call EXL will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 6, at 10:00 a.m. (ET) todiscuss the company’s quarterly results and operating performance. Theconference call will be available live via the internet by accessing theinvestor relations section of EXL’s website at , where theaccompanying presentation can also be accessed. Please go to the website atleast fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install anynecessary audio software.To listen to the conference call via phone, please dial 1-800-706-7745 or1-617-614-3472 and enter “49246160.” For those who cannot access the livebroadcast, a replay will be available by dialing 1-888-286-8010 or1-617-801-6888 and entering “28815805″ from two hours after the end of thecall until 11:59 p.m (ET) on May 13, 2009. The replay will also be availableat the EXL website.About ExlService Holdings, Inc ExlService Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXLS) is a leading provider of outsourcingand transformation services.

EXL’s outsourcing services include a fullspectrum of business process outsourcing services from offshore deliverycenters requiring ongoing process management skills. Transformation servicesenable continuous improvement of client processes by bringing together EXL’scapabilities in reengineering including decision analytics, risk and financialmanagement and operations and process excellence services. Headquartered inNew York, EXL primarily serves the needs of Global 1000 companies in theinsurance, utilities, financial services and transportation sectors. Findadditional information about EXL at press release contains forward-looking statements. You should not placeundue reliance on those statements because they are subject to numerousuncertainties and factors relating to the Company’s operations and businessenvironment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which arebeyond the Company’s control. Forward-looking statements include informationconcerning the Company’s possible or assumed future results of operations,including descriptions of its business strategy.

Since the volcanic eruption beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland, many travelers and families are finding themselves in unusual situations.

The leaders of bitter rivals India and Pakistan met Thursday in an effort to resume a peace process that was derailed by the 2008 attack on Mumbai by alleged Pakistan-based militants India.

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Russia has expressed outrage over the alleged rape of a nine-year-old girl in an Indian seaside resort, the latest in a series of attacks reported against foreigners in the tropical tourist hotspot.

Just weeks before a major earthquake rocked Haiti, a British disaster committee released a report noting the lessons learned in rebuilding after a massive tsunami killed an estimated 228,000 people five years ago.

Thirty to 40 ships — including several passenger ships — were stuck Thursday in ice off the coast of Sweden, said a spokesman for the Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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The sole surviving suspect in Mumbai’s terror attacks told his trial Monday that four of the gunmen involved in the siege were Indians and not Pakistanis as Indian authorities allege, attorneys said.

China’s information technology ministry called accusations of government involvement in cyber attacks alleged by Google “groundless” in an interview with state-run media.

President Obama pressed Wall Street bankers at the White House on Monday, urging them to make more loans and modify mortgages to help taxpayers who propped their banks up with federal bailouts.

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A remotely detonated bomb damaged a school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday morning, police said. No one was hurt.

About 30 armed men described as “lawless elements” broke a wall of a Philippine jail early Sunday and freed dozens of inmates in a jail break that left two dead, a police official said.