What Director Mahesh Narayanan captures perfectly in C U Soon is the texture of our online conversations, observes Sreehari Nair.
Puffing away on a cigarette to absorb the tension of the Indian Premier League has put Bollywood super star and owner of Kolkata Knight Riders team Shah Rukh Khan in a spot with the anti-smoking lobby. The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), on Saturday protested against the filmstar who was shown on television smoking during an IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in Durban, on April 21.
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Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have shown that changes in brain activity, triggered by physical exercise, may help reduce cigarette cravings.
The ban on lighting up rolled tobacco in public places came into effect from Thursday with hotels, restaurants, pubs, offices and even the international airports becoming out of bounds for smokers.
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It is not just injurious to your health, but smoking can harm your career and your earning power too, finds a new study.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday sought to ignore Union Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss' suggestion that he give up the cigarette by refusing to react to it."No comment," was all Bhattacharjee, a heavy smoker, told reporters when asked for his reaction to the minister's suggestion.Ramadoss had sent letters to all state governments, asking them to make the workplace smoke free by October 2.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic during his semifinal match against Jeremy Chardy at the Rogers Cup on Saturday, complained to the umpire that someone's cigarettes were making him dizzy.
Manish Malhotra gave it a blazing start with Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Kapoor as his showstoppers.
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Commerce Ministry proposes to scale back the Foreign Direct Investment ceiling for the tobacco industry from 100 to 74 per cent and insert a caveat that cigarettes manufactured in the new ventures or in upgraded facilities must be mainly for consumption outside India.Sources said the department, which is responsible for the policy on FDI, is finalising a cabinet note aimed at comprehensive review of the tobacco policy.
The practice -- known as the 'done-trade' business in Pakistan and involving the transfer of small quantities of items like nuts, cigarettes, betel leaves, sarees and cosmetics -- has been hit hard by a drop in the number of travellers between the two countries. Many involved in 'done-trade' business at Karachi's Bombay Bazaar have either switched to other businesses or started selling 'jainamaz' (prayer cloth) and other religious items.
Joshi said the Congress is 'led by an infiltrator' and is targeting Modi who hails from a humble family and is a popular leader.
Smokers beware! Hotels, restaurants, pubs, offices and even the international airport would be out of bounds to light up the rolled tobacco from Thursday with the ban on smoking in public places coming into effect.The ban, the implementation of which is effective from Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, will cover even hookah bars and pubs as well as private offices and public places like bus stops.
According to market experts, GST Bill, movement of the rupee and uncertain global cues amid expected rate cut by the US Fed will dictate the movement of the markets.
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An Indian student was beaten up and robbed by a group of teenagers in a moving train here, media report said today. Sourabh Sharma, 21, who came to Australia a year ago to study hospitality, was brutally bashed when six thugs confronted him in the train.
Much as we might like to believe that date rape is a curse of the Western world, we have to open our eyes to the fact that the crime is much closer to home than we realise.
A world without tobacco 'is a world in which people live longer and have happier lives,' Bloomberg, New York Mayor who has a fortune of $16 billion, said at a joint press conference with the Microsoft founder Gates. They said the money would go to anti-smoking groups working with governments to curb the consumption of tobacco and related products, including World Health Organisation and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The prime minister further alleged that the work of Congress while in power was mere pretentiousness.
Among Sensex components, shares of Reliance Industries, India's largest company by market value, stole the show by surging 1.61 per cent to their highest in over three months.
'Donald Trump' took Times Square by storm on Tuesday along with a group of scantily-dressed women as part of a project by spoof photographer Alison Jackson.
ITC, the cigarettes-to-hotels conglomerate, has recorded a 26 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 1,009 crore in the quarter ended September 30, from Rs 802 crore in the same period last year, led by revenue growth in almost all its businesses, except hotels. Net income grew 18 per cent to Rs 4,345 crore, up from Rs 3,682 crore in the same quarter last year.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget.
Till some time ago, Keralites could be seen puffing cigarettes furtively at bus stands and railway stations (there is already a high court directive against smoking in Kerala), but the Centre's recent ban has received an overwhelming response in the state.
'Our defence services are in a position to checkmate any Chinese adventurism.'
Kudos to Director Karthik Subbaraj for bringing back the Rajini of the 1990s, says A Ganesh Nadar.
Legendary music director Pyarelal of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo has joined the debate triggered by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' remarks on smoking and drinking scenes in movies.
After the 2019 election, one thing is sure: GST will see a number of changes, explains Indivjal Dhasmana.
They might be role models for the larger population, but a new study shows that health professionals are one of the maximum users of tobacco in the country, with more than 50 per cent of them engaging in smoking or other activities. According to the Global Tobacco Surveillance System, lifetime prevalence of cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products among third-year medical students was reported to be 28.2 per cent and 22 per cent respectively.
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The photo, downloaded from Internet and published in the Sunday edition of the paper, showed Jesus holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer can in the other. It evoked angry reaction from the Christian minority and the community members staged a protest demonstration and ransacked the offices of the newspaper at several places across the state.
The feeling was that the higher levy would prompt the company to increase prices in the process hurting volumes. But the unchanged central excise duty, analysts say, outweighs the VAT increases in Maharashtra and Delhi. As a result, estimates for the current year have been upped with expectations that the company could grow its top line by as much as 13-14 per cent driven by a 6-7 per cent rise in volumes.
Concerned over the impression they leave on youngsters when they smoke on the silver screen, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has urged Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to desist from smoking in their films. "The movies are most responsible (for encouraging smoking). When I said movies should not have smoking scenes, we have statistics which show that 52 per cent of children have their first puff of a cigarette because of movie celebrities."
While the company does not report segment results for the foods business until a specific vertical reaches a threshold limit, its entire FMCG business during the last financial year has reported revenues of Rs 2,523 crore. The food segment, which is still in the investment mode, crossed the Rs 1,000 crore revenue mark in FY 08 and is losing on an average close to Rs 60 crore on a yearly basis, accumulated losses of Rs 700 crore over the past seven years.
The cabinet on Thursday approved a Rs 8,000-crore scheme to provide cooking gas (LPG) connections free of cost to women members of poor households.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has lost the battle to make depiction of skull and cross-bones on all tobacco products mandatory with Cabinet on Friday declaring it would be optional.
The poor countries that smoke the most and pay the highest price.
Over 12,000 children in the age group of 6-13 years, mostly from poor families living near Ganga Ghats, in Varanasi are tobacco and drug addicts, a survey has said.
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