Electricity Outage

Millions of Cubans awoke on Sunday to find their homes still without power after another partial grid failure overnight, deepening a crisis that has raised questions over the viability of the government's efforts to reestablish electrical service.

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again early on Saturday morning, state-run media reported, plunging the entire country into blackout for a second time just hours after authorities announced they had begun reestablishing service.

The Assam Rifles today said their posts across Mizoram faced an electricity outage for several hours on Thursday after soldiers allegedly stopped the convoy of Mizoram Power Minister F Rodingliana.

Several parts of Chennai reeled under a sudden power outage due to a fire incident which caused sequential faults on both feeders at the Manali substation, here.

The death count from a cyclone that smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, top local officials said Monday.

The government of Venezuela has joined forces with the national electrical system to identify and disconnect crypto mining farms from the power grid in the course of the coming few days. The Venezuelan Ministry of Electrical Energy (MPPPE) has already kick started a power supply control plan to bust crypto mining clusters.

Ukraine on Monday restored power to most of the households that lost electricity during overnight Russian strikes on the northern region of Sumy.

Pockets in south Mumbai plunged into darkness for a second consecutive day on late Friday evening following a snag, electricity officials said.

Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday.

With the ongoing power crisis in the Karnataka, the farmers in the state found a bizarre way of protesting.

Two people were killed in police firing when protests over power outages in Bihar's Katihar turned violent.

Heavy rains and gusty winds at a speed of over 115-120 kilometres per hour created havoc in Gujarat's Morbi district, damaging over 300 electric poles, leading to power outage in around 45 villages.

The outage began at 1 pm on May 16 and affected about 16,000 customers at its peak.

It resulted in the failure of many grid stations and left nearly 40 per cent of Karachi in the dark.

Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system.

Millions of Cubans awoke on Sunday to find their homes still without power after another partial grid failure overnight, deepening a crisis that has raised questions over the viability of the government's efforts to reestablish electrical service.

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again early on Saturday morning, state-run media reported, plunging the entire country into blackout for a second time just hours after authorities announced they had begun reestablishing service.

The Assam Rifles today said their posts across Mizoram faced an electricity outage for several hours on Thursday after soldiers allegedly stopped the convoy of Mizoram Power Minister F Rodingliana.

Several parts of Chennai reeled under a sudden power outage due to a fire incident which caused sequential faults on both feeders at the Manali substation, here.

The death count from a cyclone that smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, top local officials said Monday.

The government of Venezuela has joined forces with the national electrical system to identify and disconnect crypto mining farms from the power grid in the course of the coming few days. The Venezuelan Ministry of Electrical Energy (MPPPE) has already kick started a power supply control plan to bust crypto mining clusters.

Ukraine on Monday restored power to most of the households that lost electricity during overnight Russian strikes on the northern region of Sumy.

Pockets in south Mumbai plunged into darkness for a second consecutive day on late Friday evening following a snag, electricity officials said.

Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday.

With the ongoing power crisis in the Karnataka, the farmers in the state found a bizarre way of protesting.

Two people were killed in police firing when protests over power outages in Bihar's Katihar turned violent.

Heavy rains and gusty winds at a speed of over 115-120 kilometres per hour created havoc in Gujarat's Morbi district, damaging over 300 electric poles, leading to power outage in around 45 villages.

The outage began at 1 pm on May 16 and affected about 16,000 customers at its peak.

It resulted in the failure of many grid stations and left nearly 40 per cent of Karachi in the dark.

Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system.