Rare Cable Rupture 'a Wake-Up Call' for India
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 1 -- In the heart of an industrial zone and up an ordinary flight of stairs, young computer engineers buzzed with activity Friday in front of a huge screen tracking Internet connectivity in this country's booming service sector.
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India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half.
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Damage to undersea Internet cables hit business across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call centre industry, prompting calls for people to limit their surfing.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the worst-ever industrial disaster in Bhopal, the BBC&#39;s coverage of the story has left the organisation red-faced and searching for answers.
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It&#39;s one thing to watch a special-effects-laden disaster movie about a tsunami or other outrageous act of nature; it&#39;s quite another to watch the TV news and see the devastation wrought by a real-life magnitude 9 earthquake that struck under the Indian
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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INDIA&#39;s chiefs went into an emergency huddle yesterday amid fears next month&#39;s home series against Australia will be cancelled if a television rights imbroglio is not resolved.
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India unveils a 27bn rupee ($628m) reconstruction package for mainland areas hit by December's tsunami.
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A breakdown in an international undersea  cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf  Arab countries on Wednesday, and Egypt said it could take  several days for its services to return to normal.
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Asian countries are reeling from cuts in underwater internet fiber optic cables that have left millions in the e-dark. While the internet feels crucial, one internet analyst says such outages are the cost of cheap internet access fees.
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A day after losing most of its internet service as part of a wider Mideast-Asia blackout, India expects to have most customers back online by sundown Friday.
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After a huge earthquake struck Pakistan and India a year ago, one of the biggest fears was for the more than 3 million newly homeless facing the onset of the Himalayan winter.
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Three vital undersea cables were cut last week, but India's IT sector coped well.
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The northern tip of the Bay of Bengal, home to tens of millions of people, faces a potential double whammy from an earthquake and tsunami, a scientist warned on Wednesday.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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Melbourne: Early breaking news of the devastation wrought by the tidal waves, perhaps the worst in human history, that lashed the southern and eastern coasts of India and elsewhere in Asia yesterday did not convey to people abroad the true, tragic
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How a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered sea surges and the deaths of thousands of people.