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Nearly a third of India’s coal power plants have critical low fuel stocks

NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Nearly a third of India’s coal-fired power plants are operating with critically low fuel stocks despite ​government efforts to boost supplies, as an extended spell ‌of hot weather keeps electricity demand elevated, government data showed. India’s peak power demand, a measure of the maximum electricity requirement, has been hovering near the record ​270.70 gigawatts touched in May. Demand has consistently reached around 267 ​GW over the past few days, driven by increased ⁠cooling needs amid an El Nino weather pattern. The number of power ​plants with critical low coal stocks of less than 25%

‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans’: if AI labs are so worried about AI doom, why don’t they stop?

September 11, 2026 (Conversation) Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” added current Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger in a post on X. Coxon isn’t the first to down tools over fears of AI doom. The idea that AI could wipe out humanity, advanced in Nick Bostrom’s 2014 book Superintelligence and the influential LessWrong forum, has long circulated among researchers. There are many scenarios for how this could happen, but the core idea is that AI smarter than humans

Supreme Court orders regulator to provide timeline for food warning labels

NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to provide a clear pathway for the implementation of ​food warning labels on packaged products within 10 days, ratcheting ‌up pressure on New Delhi to implement the public health measure. The Supreme Court has piled pressure on New Delhi to implement stricter warning labels ​following complaints from a health non-profit, amid a crackdown on ​food safety which has seen regulators raid eateries nationwide. The ⁠food regulator last month suggested a two-phased labelling programme, starting ​with red-coloured hexagonal warning labels on products that exceeded limits in ​at

BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi as wars and rivalries strain the expanded bloc

NEW DELHI, September 11, 2026 (AP) — NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group’s ability to act together. Host India will seek to balance its ties with China and Russia against its growing partnerships with the United States and other Western powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the leaders expected to attend. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries, named after an acronym

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