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Topic: seat belts

Brought in after Cyrus Mistry’s death, Mumbai’s new rear seatbelt rule gets mixed response

Purva Chitnis -
The new rule kicked in on 1 Nov, but cops are conducting awareness drive for 1st 10 days. Some motorists feel it's 'for their own good', others say it's 'unnecessary within city'.

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

Kushan Mitra -
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.

Spotlight on seat belts can’t be episodic or driven by tragedy. India needs a sustained campaign

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Fine for passengers who don’t wear seat belts in the rear, announces Nitin Gadkari

ThePrint Team -
The Centre is also in talks with car manufacturers to include a beeper that will go off if the rear seat passenger is not wearing a seat belt.

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

Kushan Mitra -
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

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

Govt makes three-point seat belts must for all front-facing passengers in car

PTI -
The norm will also be applicable for the middle seat in the rear row of a car, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said at a press conference Thursday.

Wearing seat belts offers a key lesson for pandemic behaviour. But do we have enough time?

Randy Juhl -
Yes, we have started wearing masks, washing hands several times and not coughing openly. But everyone isn’t doing it.

More than 90% of Indian car passengers risk their safety by not using rear seat-belts

Ifrah Mufti -
A research report released by Union Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari also highlights the shocking state of children's road safety in India.

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Economy

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

Sampurna Panigrahi -
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.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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