Dive Summary:
- Monday's grid failure in India was followed by another day of crippling outages on Tuesday, with 600 million people losing power from the northern and eastern grids.
- Public transit in New Delhi was severely crippled as traffic lights went out and trains stopped.
- India's Ministry of Power was working to identify the source of the problem.
From the article:
About 600 million people lost power in India on Tuesday when the country’s northern and eastern electricity grids failed, crippling the country for a second consecutive day.
The outage stopped hundreds of trains in their tracks, darkened traffic lights, shuttered the Delhi Metro and left nearly everyone — the police, water utilities, private businesses and citizens — without electricity. About half of India’s population of 1.2 billion people was without power. ...
