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Thursday, September 25, 2025
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Topic: Airbags

India can’t prevent road accidents but it can reduce fatalities—advanced tools, trauma care

One in every three accidents on Indian roads leads to a fatality. Developing road infrastructure cannot compensate accident fatalities that can be prevented with better facilities.

Hyundai India raised the bar with 6 airbags. But here is why you shouldn’t obsess over them

It’s a misconception that airbags save lives no matter how bad an accident. If you’re not belted in, hitting an airbag can feel like an uppercut from Mike Tyson.

All Hyundai cars will now be fitted with six airbags as standard safety requirement

The government has not made this mandatory for manufacturers but has said buyers were smart enough to choose cars which were the safest.

India’s auto component industry is clocking billions but road to Atmanirbhar is still bumpy

India makes 36 to 40 million airbag modules every year. But the high-strength fabric used to make each one of them is imported.

Airbag industry to more than double in worth to Rs 6,000-7,000 crore by FY27, says ICRA

New rules to kick in from October 2023, mandate six airbags per car, but increasing domestic manufacturing capacity is crucial if this target is to be met, said the ratings agency.

All passenger cars to have a minimum of six airbags from 1 Oct, 2023, says Nitin Gadkari

The move, aimed at improving safety, was initially planned for 1 October, 2022, but faced resistance from some carmakers.

Mistry’s death shows the importance of airbags. But they are pointless without seat belts

Many would consider Cyrus Mistry’s Mercedes-Benz GLC 220d ‘safer’. But there were several bad hot-takes on social media about the car's ‘rear’ airbags not getting deployed.

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.