Power outage in parts of central, south mumbai; local trains stop on one line

Train movement halted between Andheri and Churchgate railway stations as the power supply stopped

No outage due to power shortage in Delhi: Power Ministry

A factsheet on power supply in Delhi showed that there was no energy deficit in the city from September 26 to October 11

“The virus has attacked City Power database and other software impacting most of our applications and networks,” City Power said in a tweet.

A company spokesman told CNN that the slug had burned to death after touching an electrical cable leading to the mass power failure.

The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway is closed for vehicular traffic due to heavy snowfall on Saturday which has rendered the road unsafe.

Snow and rain will taper off as skies clear, but winds gusts of up to 50 miles per hour will persist through the day across the region.

Eight male patients, four female, and eight children have died.

More power distruptions on cards as peak summer season is yet to begin.

In the general wards and out-patient departments, patients were forced to suffer the summer heat.

The roar of generators and the smell of diesel fuel filled the morning air, as the temperature rose to around 90 degrees.