Power blackouts in India

Darly
By Darly

More than 600 million people are without electricity after the collapse of a third power grid in India.
Stretching from Assam to the Himalayas and Rajasthan, one of the worst blackouts to his the nation in a decade has plunged the country into darkness for a second consecutive day

Hope the miners are safe and they sort it out soon .

By Mandilulur• 7 Aug 2012 18:19
Mandilulur

Colt45, WV???

Mandi

By anonymous• 7 Aug 2012 12:44
anonymous

I heard the reason for the blackout was the main power generating company had a complete shutdown. Their worker fell off his generator bike and broke his leg.....

By radoha• 7 Aug 2012 10:39
radoha

[yawn] boring!!

By Good old joe• 2 Aug 2012 15:23
Good old joe

...looks like India is really making a start to save the world and reduce carbon emissions by starting to go green by trying to reduce electricity consumption. Good job India.. You sure can do your bit to save the world

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 13:52
anonymous

Its ok monkey my brothers are here to protect me from unwanted indian attention, especially when there is a black out.

By dota• 1 Aug 2012 13:21
Rating: 4/5
dota

More than 600 million people w/o electricity... OMG!

By FlyingAce• 1 Aug 2012 13:02
FlyingAce

brit, That would only remain a Wish....

Establishments at both sides of the Border, will not let it happen...

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 1 Aug 2012 12:57
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

mozaismyhero its not good to call any maintenance guy when ur alone as ur a lady for safety reasons

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 12:54
anonymous

I have an Indian maitenance guy who is an electrican, maybe I could send him there to help. He is also a plumber, carpenter, driver, building, a/c specialist and gardener. However nothing seems to get fixed in my villa...:(

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 12:45
anonymous

Delhi airport was functioning normally yesterday with no impact of the power cut!

By Good old joe• 1 Aug 2012 12:35
Good old joe

Yeah and then our technical worker could not get to Doha as the metro was not working and the airport was loaded with a backlog of flights all stuck at Delhi because of the avoidable mess that the goverment did not see coming as they must have been to busy with looting the public treasury and filling their own pockets

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 11:58
anonymous

again India

By Khanan• 1 Aug 2012 11:37
Khanan

Tinkerjee...ahem...secret..:)

Painther Jee..I know Bloody Pakistanis ;)

By britexpat• 1 Aug 2012 11:13
britexpat

If only governments realised the same.

India and Pakistan working together could achieve great things.

By painther• 1 Aug 2012 11:09
painther

..actually i was very worried not to see this so important news in QL for sometime, but guess what, there're people, concerned as always, in the service of mankind through this post...........!!!

:P

By painther• 1 Aug 2012 11:06
painther

haha khanan, good, plz don't say it’s ABP news (formerly star news) ..lol,

Once one squirrel, in my neighborhood, got sick and subsequently died, some of us blamed it to ISI but they say it was in response to what RAW did when they found one crocodile unconscious in clifton :)

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 10:53
anonymous

Khanan I didn't catch much coverage of it on TV so not sure what they were speculating.

Some analysts were wondering what will happen if some terrorists tried to take advantage of such a blackout in future to strike. Maybe some news channel picked up on it and allowed their imaginations to run riot.

By Khanan• 1 Aug 2012 10:50
Khanan

I saw two Indian news channel yesterday speculating a 'terrorist link in neighbouring country' for the power outage.

One of them quite reputed one :) L

By radoha• 1 Aug 2012 10:50
radoha

Whats this got to do with Doha?

By Colt45• 1 Aug 2012 10:45
Colt45

I know, I was being cocky :-P

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 10:42
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Narendra Modi doesn't need to blame anyone, Gujarat (Where he is the chief minister) is the only power surplus state in India and the only state where every village gets 24 hours power supply. They enjoyed uninterrupted power supply yesterday.

Colt45 it had nothing to do with a thunder-storm.

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 1 Aug 2012 10:39
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

for sure narendra modi will blame pakistan for the power blackout :)

By Colt45• 1 Aug 2012 10:37
Colt45

That's the norm with every thunder-storm in WV :-(

By anonymous• 1 Aug 2012 10:36
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Use "were without electricity" and "had plunged" in your post. Power was restored last night.

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