A 24-hour government-imposed curfew kicked in yesterday evening at 5.30pm (UK time) leaving Be’s broadband punters without any cover. In an email to customers yesterday evening the firm explained: "As you are aware, the majority of our Be agents in our call centre are based in India. "We have just been informed that there is a 24 hour government enforced curfew in Bangalore due to local civil unrest and, as a result, we are unable to handle any calls or tickets from there as of 5.30pm today. Unfortunately this unrest has affected not only our main call centre, but also our back-up sites. A spokesman for the ISP told El Reg that Be has drafted in a small team of contractors from the UK to provide emergency back-up. As for Be’s outsourced call centre staff in Bangalore, they “will return to work as soon as it’s safe to go back”, he said.
**Leading IT companies – including Wipro, iGATE and Infosys, India’s second-largest software company, along with multinationals Microsoft, Dell Inc and IBM **– said they would stay closed on Thursday. “Most companies are forced to close. Nobody wants to take a chance,” an official at a multinational firm told Reuters on the condition that that the person and company not be named. “Offices that are open get stoned. This is bad for Bangalore’s international image.” Offices belonging to AXA, a leading French insurance firm, and Microsoft were pelted with stones, company officials told Reuters.
Yaar, we are talking to a Silly wall here,,,,,,,, so it doesn't matter what language we use he won't listen..
I am one of the new people in Banglaore, and am here for last 8 years now. My wifey is going through Kannada lessons and hopefully she will teach me some and than I can answer you in Kannada.......... :-)
By the way what all i wrote in kannada, nothing was concerned with the topic. All i said was that i was brought up in mysore and born in bangalore. Anyway....see ya
I am doing business in India Rahul. My Business was shut down for one and a half day. Raj Kumar was pronouned dead at 2 pm on wednesday, soon after that we had to close our business around 3 pm. Then the next day curfew prevailed and we were closed for the whole day. Though i am not living in India I am aware of the situation there. Almost all businesses were closed including big IT companies. I disagree to whomsoever said that it was business was usual.
Please go through the posts buddy, I never said that things were hunky dory. I did agree that there was trouble. I started debate on three adjectives used by "Silly"..
1. Civil Unrest
2. Western Companies Finding it quite disturbing
3. Operations Disrupted
and all three accroding to me didn't happen. Yes you can say that number Three, operations disrupted may have happened to non_IT companies, Since people can't work from home in that case.
Exactly, rather than trying to create an anti India thread and go for unstated hidden negative objectives to be fulfilled through a well organized discussion board like GS.
Thank you for providing an accurate on the location account, which has been reported by the world’s media, and rather foolishly denied by Indian posters. The amount of civil disturbance that led to 8 people being killed](| The Peninsula Qatar)over an actor dying a natural death, and which disrupted the work of a thousand companies](BBC NEWS | South Asia | Companies hit by Rajkumar riots), and caused them 10’s of millions of losses, shocked so many around the world. That is hardly business as usual as some had to tried to claim?
shocked so many around the world.
Above is your opinion with no backing? Infact companies have come out saying that things were in control.
Actor
Now everybody on the board get this right. Rajkumar may have got his fame from being an actor. He wasn’t just another chocalaty amir, sharukh or Hrithik. He was icon for Kannad, he was epitom of good man for lots of Knnnad people. He supported Kannad for Knnada movement in early 1990’s. When Rajkumar died most of us who understand Karnataka knew that its trouble.
Though calling it CIVIL UNREST, WORLD SHOCKED, are just gross exaggeration, and people only with motives use these such strong words for a general law and order problem.
I can’t prove things to a person who doesn’t stand to his word and can’t even say yes I agree exaggerated the claims… it was a law and order problem due to sheer clout of the person and mishandling of the event by police…:naraz:
