 "mumbai power outage")
The country’s financial capital came to a standstill on Monday morning, temporarily halting the city’s suburban rail services, disrupting work from home, and even trapping people inside elevators, as a technical failure hit power supplies. Electricity supply to hospitals was also interrupted, and telecom services in the city took a hit.
Executives at the stock exchanges and the airport, however, said operations remained unaffected.
The outage, that also hit adjoining areas of Mumbai, was attributed to a technical failure involving multiple tripping of power transmission lines and supply transformers. Restoration work started in phases at noon, with power restored in some areas
