India power outage affects hundreds of millions (PHOTOS)

A major power outage, which knocked out three grids, left at least 600 million people with no electricity in northern and eastern India.

More than half the country's population, spread across 20 states, was affected when trains and traffic came to a standstill and hospitals started running on generators, said the BBC.

India's power minister blamed the outage on certain states overdrawing power from the grid.

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