Link to story by Times of India:

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/06mdel14.htm

NEW DELHI: The city witnessed heavy power cuts on Wednesday morning and evening with the DVB resorting to loadshedding to the tune of 325 MWs even as the peak demand in the morning and evening touched 2436 MWs and 2425 MWs respectively. The power cuts were widespread and many areas in east Delhi had no power for more than half a day. On Tuesday night also, the city was plunged into darkness as the Badarpur and Rajghat power plants tripped because of grid problems. DVB member technical M K Gupta said, ``Rajghat was affected for less than an hour. The plant tripped at 11 pm but was restored by 11.45 pm.'' Gupta added that the other two DVB plants -gas turbine station and the IP power station -were not affected by the problem in the grid.

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 05, 2000

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it's funny, you never hear any reports of civil disturbances during these outages, which is odd, considering that, for example, india in recent years has seen a spike in the number and frequency of lynchings in broad daylight. btw, indian women are some of the most beautiful in the world, imho, and i'd hate to hear of any getting lynched.

-- RSN (robinsun@netscape.net), January 05, 2000.

Who needs power? You can read by the torches which are the 20,000 Indian women set on fire each year for refusing to marry the suitor their fathers sellect (often chosen for father's financial or political gain).

(((Callous remark to raise consciousness; my best friend is an Indian woman, first generaton American.)))

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000.