News Summary: India swelters after power fails

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POWERLESS: Northern India’s power grid crashed Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a dark reminder of the nation’s inability to feed a growing hunger for energy.

HOT UNDER THE COLLAR: The outage left millions sweltering in the summer heat. It hit 370 million people, more than the population of the U.S. and Canada combined.

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