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Malaysian websites protest against changes to Internet law

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 15:11

Most of the popular websites pledged their support to the 'Internet Black-out Day' campaign against the controversial Evidence Act amendment (no.2) by replacing their home pages with black screens.

Pak: `Public protest against outages are natural`

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 15:48

Pakistan`s judiciary has put its weight behind the PML-N leadership on the issue of power cuts.

India's blackout is a wakeup call in US too

Last Updated: Friday, August 3, 2012, 14:43

India's historic blackout has not only prompted inevitable calls from the United States for much needed reforms in India's energy sector, but also a great deal of introspection about America's own ageing infrastructure.

Power outages to hurt Indian economy: Moody's

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 23:28

The widespread power outages this week reflects the inadequacy of India's infrastructure and has a negative impact on economic activity, rating agency Moody's said Thursday.

Telecom sector too could face a blackout: COAI

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 22:57

Highlighting that mobile services were not impacted by the worst ever blackout, GSM industry body COAI on Thursday asked the government to address the issues faced by operators to avoid a situation similar to what happened in the power sector.

India's blackout offers lessons to China: Official media

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 20:54

China, which is facing "development bottlenecks" in its path of development, should learn lessons from a large-scale power outage experienced by India this week, the state media here said Thursday.

After India's blackout, US experts suggest energy sector reforms

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 11:52

As power was getting restored in India after one of its worst blackouts in history, US energy experts called for reforms in India's energy sector while US officials just said it's an "internal Indian issue".

Punjab again overdraws power from Northern Grid

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 13:26

States, it appears, have failed to learn from the blackout witnessed on Monday and Tuesday due to overdrawing of power from the grids.

DDMA pressed into service during outage

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 21:54

Delhi government on Tuesday pressed its disaster management mechanism into service.

Grid failure: WB allows employees to go home early

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 13:56

The West Bengal government on Tuesday allowed its employees to leave for home before office closure in view of failure of the Eastern Grid.

Blackout hits business activities

Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2012, 17:39

Power supply was hit in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir.

300,000 computers with deadly virus to lose internet today

Last Updated: Monday, July 9, 2012, 08:48

Around 300,000 internet users across the world may lose their internet connections today if their computers have been infected with the deadly "Alureon/DNS Changer bot" virus.