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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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Opinion

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Arvind Kumar -
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Economy

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Shekhar Gupta -
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.

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