Month: July 2012

Dubbed the Largest Blackout Ever in History By CBS News NEW DELHI, July 31, 2012 – Electric crematoria were snuffed out with bodies inside,New Delhi’s Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade Tuesday, cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout. Click on this link to watch the video: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57483166/india-blackout-worsens-600m-in-dark/ While Indians were furious and embarrassed, many took the crisis in stride, inured by the constant – though far less widespread – outages triggered by the huge electricity deficit stymieing the development of...

By Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, July 23, 2012 – Pranab Mukherjee was elected yesterday the President of India, trouncing PA Sangma by a huge margin to embark on a new journey capping over four decades of active political innings. In a virtually one-sided election that saw divisions in the opposition NDA, the 76-year-old UPA nominee Mukherjee secured a vote of 713,763, garnering 69.3% of the total 1,029,750 valid votes polled. Rival Purno Sangma, who was backed by BJP and some other opposition parties like AIADMK and BJD, trailed far behind with 315,987 vote value in the polling that saw...