Subject: Thanks to statists, hundreds of millions without power after Indian grid goes down for second time in 2 days Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:37 am
A massive blackout hit populous northern and eastern India on Tuesday afternoon, leaving more than half of India's 1.2 billion people without electricity.
The government said that the northern, eastern and northeastern grids were hit on Tuesday. Together the three grids cover at least 600 million people, reports said.