Monster outage blacks out more than half of India

NEW DELHI: A massive power failure hit India for the second day on Tuesday as three national grids collapsed, blacking out more than half the country in an unprecedented outage affecting over 600 million people. Hundreds of miners were trapped underground in the eastern state of West Bengal when the lifts failed, metro services were stopped temporarily in the capital and hundreds of trains were held up nationwide.Naresh Kumar, a spokesman at the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, said that... more

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