Passengers waited for trains Tuesday at a railway station in New Delhi. Another grid failure cut power, causing chaos. Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images The Two-Way Massive Failure: 600 Million In India Lose Power July 31, 2012 Tuesday's outage affected nearly 200 million more people than live in North and Central America. It created chaos again in New Delhi and other major cities as trains and traffic stopped.