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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Indian businesses weather blackouts, but at a cost

An Indian barber holding a candle give a customer a haircut at his shop in Kolkata, India, Tuesday. India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout.