Yes many a times here in kolkata also gmail is not working and i am seeing each time google is trying some feature. Especially these days google has been playing too much with google docs very annoying..
GMail seems fine for me here, I can understand that it is quite frustrating if the email does not reach the recipient, or be able to access your email account. GMail is probably the next better thing you can get.
Gmail is working fine but read the thread's title, he wants to know if www.gamil.com is down and the answers is no, it is up and running. Jokes aside (and Gamil does really exist), from time to time Gmail suffers downtimes that don't last beyond few seconds or several minutes in the worst case scenario
some times Its your own browser that doesn't load Gmail , it happened with me also few days ago.. (i was using FireFOX ) try opening the Gmail in Internet Explorer or Opera
We are use gmail under google apps and have found that - while I can access gmail through imap here in the office my partner cannot from home. Usually the problems lasts for 20/30 minutes. The error is some like imap.google.com is temporarily unavailable - could this be a DNS problem?