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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Seat belts to be mandatory for all passengers in cars, says Union Minister Nitin Gadkari

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the government is making seat belts mandatory for all passengers travelling in a car, including the ones sitting on the back seat. He said that as of now, the car rings an alarm if those in the front seat don’t wear the seat belt. Soon, cars will be fitted with a mechanism that will sound an alarm when passengers at the back seat of the car don’t wear a seat belt.

In addition to this, the government will also levy a penalty if passengers at the back seat of the car don’t wear the seat belt.

“Earlier, there was a penalty for not wearing seat belt for the driver and co-passenger only, but we have updated the law to include rear seat passengers as well,” the Union Minister said at an event.

He also said that the government will issue a notification within three days notifying citizens about the changes in the law that would make seat belt alarms for passengers on the back seat mandatory within cars across categories and penalise citizens should they not wear a seat belt.

In a separate interview with NDTV, the minister said that changes that the government is making in the existing laws will ensure a fine of Rs 1,000 if passengers at the back seat are found violating the laws.

Additionally, the government is also making it making it mandatory for carmakers to include six airbags in cars. While this is expected to drive up the prices, the minister in a statement to the publication said that the cost of producing airbags is expected to go down as the production increases. “Cost of 1 airbag is 1,000, for 6, it’s 6,000. With more production, the cost will be reduced. Cost is not important, people’s lives are,” he told the publication.

Union Minister Gadkari’s statement comes just two days after the former Tata Groups chairman Cyrus Mistry passed away in a road accident near Mumbai evening. Report says that Mistry was not wearing any seat belt which is what increased the impact of the accident and lead to his death.

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