Bloomberg News By Kartikay Mehrotra and Andrew MacAskill on July 30, 2012 Tweet Facebook LinkedIn India’s worst power grid failure in a decade cut electricity supplies to nearly 360 million people in seven northern states today, shutting transport networks, triggering commuter chaos and halting water supplies. About 50 percent of the system has been restored and the remainder should resume in 3 to 4 hours after all generation plants start functioning, V.V. Sharma, a general manager with the system...

By Kartikay Mehrotra and Andrew MacAskill - 2012-07-30T05:54:47Z India ’s worst power grid failure in a decade cut electricity supplies to nearly 360 million people in seven northern states today, shutting transport networks, triggering commuter chaos and halting water supplies. About 50 percent of the system has been restored and the remainder should resume in 3 to 4 hours after all generation plants start functioning, V.V. Sharma, a general manager with the systems operation unit of Power Grid Co...

What #Irene looked like yesterday (8/26/11) #FromSpace just off the East Coast of US taken @ 8:30pm GMT from #ISS