Tech Window: Blackout in Northern India

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India, the country home to the world’s second largest population of 
1.2 billion, is in the midst of what’s possibly the largest electrical 
failure in history. More than <b>600 million people </b>are without power 
throughout 11 provinces in the Indian north and east.<br />
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The <b>country experienced its first major outages Monday</b>, which 
affected upwards of 350 million people — more than the entire U.S. 
population. New Dehli, the capital city whose metro area is home to more
 than 20 million people, was left in the dark by both power failures. 
According to Indian Railways, at least <b>300 trains have been canceled due
 to the outages</b>.<br />
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<a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/india-hosts-worlds-largest-blackout/?smid=tw-nytimesworld&seid=auto" target="_blank"><i>The New York Times</i></a>
 reports that Tuesday afternoon’s outage is the largest outage ever on 
record, effecting the equivalent of most of Europe’s population or more 
than the population on North and Central America combined.<br />
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India’s power minister hasn’t specified the root cause of the 
problem, though he says there are problems with the country’s power 
grid. Some are speculating that states are using more power than the 
grid can handle, causing the outage.<br />
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Sporadic power outages are the norm in most of India, where local power supplies regularly cut out for several hours a day.<br />
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<b>Read More at</b> :<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/31/india-power-outage/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashable </a><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Source</span>:<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://mashable.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashable</a> </span></div>
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