INDIA'S POWER FAILURE LEAVES 600 MILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT LIGHT

India's Northern and Eastern power grids have collapsed leaving 600 million people in the country without electricity. The failure of the Eastern grid occurred a day after the country's northern grid collapsed for several hours. Officials managed to restore power for a few hours but the Northern grid eventually collapsed again at 1.05 pm on Tuesday said Shailendre Dubey, an official with the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation.
Traffic lights across New delhi and the metro rail which carries about 1.8 million passengers a day have shut down because of the outage.