Grid Collapse in India Leaves 360 Million People Without Power | Peak Oil News and Message Boards

Grid Collapse in India Leaves 360 Million People Without Power  |  Peak Oil News and Message Boards: "India’s worst power-grid failure in a decade cut electricity supplies to almost 360 million people in seven northern states today, shutting transport networks, triggering commuter chaos and halting water supplies."

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Assam in disarray after massive floods, hundreds of thousands homeless

Violence in Assam continues, death toll rises to 36 - Hindustan Times: "Blood on the streets
The latest violence erupted just days after floods killed more than 100 people and left at least 400,000 homeless in Assam."

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Maruti shuts factory after management attacked | Reuters

Maruti shuts factory after management attacked | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car manufacturer, stopped production at one of its factories on Wednesday after workers attacked managers at the plant and set fire to company property, the automaker said."

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The Associated Press: Floods swamp thousands of Indian villages, kill 27

The Associated Press: Floods swamp thousands of Indian villages, kill 27: "GAUHATI, India (AP) — Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, sweeping away homes and leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned Friday. At least 27 people were killed, but the toll was expected to rise."

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Seventy dead, 200,000 stranded in Bangladesh floods - AlertNet

Seventy dead, 200,000 stranded in Bangladesh floods - AlertNet: "DHAKA, June 27 (Reuters) - Days of rain in Bangladesh, some of the heaviest in years, have set off flash floods and landslides, killing at least 70 people and stranding about 200,000, police and officials said on Wednesday.

Low-lying and densely populated Bangladesh is battered by torrential downpours during the wet season, which began in the past few weeks."

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Energy is a crisis, while we continue wasting it on cars

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\07\story_7-6-2012_pg12_1

KARACHI: The enraged residents of Liaquatabad on Wednesday torched a Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) office as their protest against power suspension entered fourth day, causing financial loss amounting to millions of rupees to the company.

Angry residents of Al Karam Square, Apsara Apartment and surrounding localities of Liaquatabad Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4, including women and children, took to the Shahrah-e-Pakistan and other key roads, crippling their traffic flow.

Bhutan bans driving...on Tuesdays | Fox News

Bhutan bans driving...on Tuesdays | Fox News: "THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Tuesdays in the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan will become "Pedestrians' Day" after the country's cabinet approved a one-day-a-week ban on driving in town centers during business hours, the Kuensel newspaper reported Friday."

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