Bangalore riots force long IT-BPO weekend The day after iconic Kannada film hero Rajkumar died, India's IT-BPO capital came to a standstill but the contingency plans of companies prevented any disruption in services. While information technology firms got a large number of their people to work from home, business process outsourcing companies diverted the traffic to their centres in other cities. This is because almost 95 per cent of the staff could not make it to their work stations as mobs went on a rampage in the city. IBM, a majority of whose 40,000 staff in India are spread across eight centres in the city, is understood to have totally shut shop for the time being, keeping only a small portion of its BPO work going. According to IBM executives, most of the work has been diverted to the company's Delhi centre. Pureplay BPO firms like 24/7 Customer, too, had to down shutters today, making do with little staff, and had to divert work to other centres in India. Almost the entire IT staff of software vendors chose to stay away from work as many of them had the liberty to co-ordinate work from home, unlike BPO staff that cannot work out of home because of data security or unavailability of bandwidth. Infosys' IT employees, too, did not have to turn up for work ahead of the company's annual results on Friday. Source: Rediff People walk past a burning vehicle set a blaze by fans of actor Raj Kumar after they demanded his body be kept for public view in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Raj Kumar, a onetime child actor who became one of the most beloved movie stars in south India, died Wednesday, news reports said.
They are rioting because an actor died? I'll make a note to have a few extra magazines loaded when Clint Eastwood kicks off.
Rioting and destroying things because an actor died? come on... it's not like the lakers won the NBA championship or something!
People are strange, nobody knows how a mob would react in a given situation. Even, i found it funny, i would never do a thing like that, celebrities are overrated anyway.
Google main office is at bangalore. The chief minister of there has helped the software community to settle there and this has made a difference there. They got lot of finance from the world bank to set up the software park. Infosys and TCS are the biggest leader present at the bangalore. this has made a huge difference
Yes. Heroes are wordhipped in this country, especially down south. I remember people building temples for actors or actress whom they see as Gods. Many untoward incidents take place when rival actors' movies release on the same day, especially in the same cinecomplex.