Posted on 07/31/2012 4:47:12 AM PDT by John W
NEW DELHI -- Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power Tuesday as the grids covering 19 states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days.
Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan, the power cut was the worst to hit India in more than a decade. The power loss includes grid failures in northern, eastern and northeastern India.
Trains were stranded in Kolkata and New Delhi and thousands of people poured out of the sweltering capital's modern metro system when it ground to a halt at lunchtime. Office buildings switched to diesel generators and traffic jammed the roads.
The cut left hundreds of miners trapped underground in Kolkata, Sky News reported, citing AFP.
The power outage is likely the largest ever in India, the Economic Times reported.
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And that's why everyone should be driving a government subsidized electric car! (No wait, that would create an even greater stress on the fragile grid...) /sarc
Our foreign affairs aren't screwed up enough, lets attempt to exploit more countries....
Gezzz..
Livin in an Al Gore paradise.
Sigh. If your competitor is corrupt it is sometimes to your advantage. If India can’t provide a safe and fair place to do business we might be able to attract some of our expat business back! Such competition is absolutely fair game.
Go to china smack dot com and see the human remains they drop in the Ganges and allow to decompose. Nothing much romantic about India for me.
I’ve seen it and it’s shocking. It’s the Hindu customs that as an observer, interest me.
You seem a bit slow.
Ya see the only thing you'll attacked here from India are more people from India which we certainly do not need. Might be a shock to you but fairness and safety have zip to do with anything when it comes to dirt cheap labor.
Companies went to Mexico for cheap labor. Guess how that worked out?
puff-puff-puff, rushing ....
Well, not so good, Mexico. It got dangerous and corrupt and the companies left.
puff-puff-puff
Many of them went to India, which had the traditions and law patterns of Great Britain as well as a cheap labor source.
Somehow, I think if the incompetent and corrupt government of India does not deliver reliable energy and the corporations start to become afraid of the behaviors of that chap labor, we might be in a position to attract some business back.
Are you you such an advanced intelligence that this makes no sense? Slow as I may be...I think you might slow down your dazzling intellectual speed to consider my argument, humbly chugging along at the speed limit.
Did you know that kidnapping for ransom has become almost as commonplace in Mumbai and Delhi as in Mexico City?
Can I see a list of all the companies who opened up shop in Mexico and left within the past 10 years due to fairness and safety?
Thanks.
Once again, fairness and safety have zip to do with anything when it comes to off shoring for the dirt cheap labor.
Ya think Communist China is safe and fair?
Lets see ya twist into knots and explain that.
Law patterns? LOL!
Did you know that kidnapping for ransom has become almost as commonplace in Mumbai and Delhi as in Mexico City?
Oh sure, all these companies are going to run back to the U.S. because India might be unsafe or unfair.
All these American companies+ more, moved to India. Which ones have come back from India due to lack of fairness or safety?
Agilent
Agro Tech
American Express
Amway
Avaya
Caltex
Caterpillar
CB Richard Ellis
Cisco
Citigroup
Coca Cola
Cognizant
Colgate Palmolive
CSC
Cummins
Discovery
Dupont
EDS
Eli Lilly
Emerson Electric
EXL
Federal Express
Ford
Franklin Templeton
GE
General Motors
Gillette
Honeywell
BM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan
Kellogg India
Kimberly Clark
Kodak
McDonalds
Metlife
Microsoft
Morgan Stanley
New York Life
Ogilvy and Mather
Oracle
Pepsico
Pfizer
Pizza Hut
Sun Microsystems
Texas
Tecumseh
Timex
Tyco
UPS
Visteon
Whirlpool
Xerox Modicorp
Take your time
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