In the worst ever power crisis, over half of the country's population in 21 states went without electricity for several hours on Tuesday as three major transmission grids failed, bringing northern, eastern and north-eastern regions to a grinding halt.
The massive failure came less than 24 hours after the northern grid collapsed and was revived yesterday.
Today, the worst sufferers were 265 miners who got trapped in coal mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand due to power outage. They were evacuated after hours of agony.
In the national capatal, thousands of Metro commuters had a harrowing time when the trains stopped inside the tunnels as transmission lines tripped at 1pm.
Railway services too were hit, with 300 trains getting disrupted in seven zones in 10 states.
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