Ludhiana, Sept. 2 -- Various parts of the city witnessed power outage for long hours on Monday after heavy rains battered Ludhiana, plunging nearly 20% of the population into blackout and disrupting supply to both residential and industrial pockets, officials familiar with the matter said.

Reportedly, the downpour damaged several transformers and crippled multiple substations, leaving the entire neighbourhood in darkness. Areas such as Islamganj, Prem Nagar, Janta Nagar, Daba Road, Lohara, CRP Colony and Giaspura faced outages stretching as long as 16 to 18 hours, officials said.

Additionally, 98 feeders tripped across the city. The Estate division was the worst hit with 41 feeders down, followed by City Centre with 18, CMC with 17 and ...