Forget 370 million, second India blackout leaves 670 million without power!

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By Frank Jack Daniel
REUTERS
NEW DELHI | Tue Jul 31, 2012

(Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days.

Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage covered states where half of India's 1.2 billion people live and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand...

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India's power grid crashes - 370 million without electricity...

On Monday, Northern India suffered a massive blackout  affecting 370 million people, stopping all communications and running back up power where possible at the airport and hospitals. The worst blackout to hit India in a decade, believed to be caused by a surge in demand for electricity in the summer heat that the grid could not just keep up...

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