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August 1, 2012

India Restores Electrical Power After Outage Affects Hundreds of Millions 
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India has restored electric power across the country after a massive
outage that affected nearly half its population of 1.2 billion. More
than a dozen states with about 670 million people were left without
power on Tuesday. It was the worst energy crisis to hit India in more
than a decade.

 

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