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Topic: seat belts

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

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

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.

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

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

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'.

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

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

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

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.