On the World No Tobacco Day, the Union health ministry on Wednesday notified the amended rules under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2004, making it mandatory for OTT platforms to......
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday dismissed Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Dilip Gandhi's remarks that all studies linking cancer to tobacco have come from abroad and that......
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Saturday that the mandated pictorial warning on cigarette and beedi packets will come into effect from December 1. Speaking tomedia-persons in......
Amidst a raging controversy over remarks on smoking by a Bharatiya Janata Party MP who is a 'beedi' baron, another Member of Parliament from the party Ram Prasad Sarmah on Friday waded into the......
Air quality in Delhi and its suburbs dropped to the severe category again on Wednesday morning, with smoke from post-harvest paddy straw burning in neighbouring states accounting for one-third of......
India’s largest cigarette manufacturer ITC’s plan to develop a market for e-cigarettes might hit a roadblock with the Union health ministry planning to impose a ban on all products......
The GST rate is also proposed to be cut on food delivery platforms like Swiggy and Zomato, to 5 per cent from the current 18 per cent. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The GST Council, in......
The health ministry has accepted the recommendation of an internal panel to ban the sale of single cigarettes, Health Minister JP Nadda said in a statement in the upper house on Tuesday. The World......
Shares of cigarette companies such as Godfrey Phillips and ITC surged as much as 10.4 per cent on Thursday following reports that a Health Ministry proposal to ban sale of loose cigarettes is......
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) under the Ministry of Commerce has called a meeting on July 10 to discuss the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in the cigarette......
'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!' *IMAGE: 'The idea of censoring films was instituted by the British our colonial masters who never trusted......
Woody Allen, I salute you for taking a position against the anti-smoking messages in theatres, writes Aseem Chhabra. Dear Woody, I hope you don’t mind me calling you Woody. I don’t......
'No one in this industry could have made Bombay Velvet in less than Rs 300 crore.' 'I made it possible in Rs 90 crore and I want the film to do business of at least Rs 150 crore' Anurag......