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Just seat belts and airbags won’t protect you. India’s deadly roads need to be fixed too

Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway or Delhi's Peripheral Expressway, one thing is certain — poor road design has a huge role to play in accidents in India.

Cyrus Mistry tragedy shows road safety is not limited to seatbelts

The govt has admitted to the design of roads often being faulty. It is now aiming to take actions to improve curves on highways and identify black spots.

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.

Wearing seat belts on rear seats of cars is mandatory but 7 in 10 Indians do not, finds survey

According to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, ‘persons occupying front facing rear seats’, need to mandatorily wear seat belts'.

Cyrus Mistry, the first non-Tata to head the group, dies in road accident

Mistry and another person were killed in the tragedy. PM Modi, Union minister Piyush Goyal, Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran among those who condoled the loss.

Tata-Mistry saga can only end with a divorce. That could still get messy

All of Shapoorji Pallonji's troubles would be over if it could get a nice divorce settlement from Tata. Trouble is, Ratan Tata also knows it.

Tata vs Mistry, Ambani vs Bezos among biggest trials in the world coming to courts in 2021

With vaccines heralding a return to normalcy, next year should see courtrooms around the world coming back to life and some very important cases being heard.

Tata vs Mistry fight will now be over the value of Tata Sons’ shares

Focus of Tata-Mistry dispute could shift to what each party thinks is fair valuation of the stake, with court filings pegging it at more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore.

Who will buy Mistry’s 18% stake in Tata Sons could be the next big fight

The worry for Tata Sons could be the Mistrys selling their 18% stake to an unfriendly investor who doesn’t share the group’s long-term vision.

Ruchir Joshi on Modi govt’s bluff, Justice Swatanter Kumar calls out NCLAT’s Tata ruling

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On Camera

India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.