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India names new finance, power ministers

Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was switched to the finance portfolio on Tuesday in a reshuffle that also saw the power minister promoted as a massive electricity failure struck the country. The president’s office announced that Chidambaram would begin his third stint as the head of the finance.

This Is What 670 Million People Without Power Look Like: Pictures From Blacked Out India

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Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here. Submitted by Tyler Durden. First thing today we reported that India just suffered what may have been the biggest blackout in history, after half of the country’s population of 1.2 billion, or just under 700 million was without power, as the electric grid.