Blackout leaves 300 million without power in northern India

More than 300 million people were left without electricity on Monday after a massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India. The lights in Delhi and seven states went out about 2am and had not been restored by the morning rush hour, Reuters reports. This was one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade. By mid-morning electricity had returned to parts of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir were also hit by the blackout.



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