tobacco

Centre caps maximum GST cess rate on pan masala, tobacco

It has linked it to the retail sale price of the products; the cap was brought in as part of the amendment to the Finance Bill 2023

State Commissioner of Food Safety has no power to impose ban on manufacture and sale of gutka and pan masala: AP High Court

Data | Relatively fewer tobacco users in the southern States

Navneeta Nandan,Vignesh Radhakrishnan

Buoyant tobacco market brings cheer to farmers

Dakshina Kannada: Uppinangady Police seize 52 prohibited e-cigarettes, arrest shopkeeper

The Hindu Bureau

Tobacco crop coverage reaches 85,000 hectares in south coastal Andhra Pradesh this rabi season.

Tobacco growers look for better prices with bright-grade boom

T.N. Health Minister urges traders not to sell gutkha, pan masala

Revisit the tax treatment of tobacco products

Concerted efforts needed to claim major share in world tobacco output, says Tobacco Board Director

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Shopkeeper arrested, 417 kg of banned tobacco products seized in Madurovoyal

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Tobacco Board offers interest-free loan to farmers who lost their crops to Cyclone Mandous in Andhra Pradesh

Over 1,000 kg of banned tobacco products seized in Tiruchi and Pudukottai districts

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Eking out a living: Women rolling beedis outside their houses at Dhuliyan municipality in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which is home to lakhs of beedi workers and is the hub of beedi making in the country.

Dusk descends on the beedi rollers of Murshidabad

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Tobacco valued at ₹6,880 crore exported in 2021-22 financial year

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Excessive rains and cyclones are adding to the miseries of small and marginal tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh.

Farmers’ associations urge Centre to maintain stable taxation on tobacco products

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Explained | The recommendation to ban the sale of single cigarettes

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The call follows review of 95 studies conducted on occupational health hazards of beedi workers in the country.

Researchers want beedi rolling declared hazardous process

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The Central Hospital for beedi workers at Dhuliyan in West Bengal.

In India’s beedi hub of Murshidabad, exclusive hospital for workers of the industry lacks doctors and facilities

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Tobacco seedlings are much in demand for replantation as Cyclone Mandous destroyed plantations, at Velampalli village in Prakasam district. KOMMURI SRINIVAS

Cyclone Mandous, an year-end jolt for tobacco growers

Tobacco Board Executive Director A. Sridhar Babu during his visit to a rain-hit farm near Ongole on Thursday.

Tobacco Board’s intervention sought as Cyclone Mandous inflicts heavy crop loss

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Prakasam District Collector A.S. Dinesh Kumar inspecting an inundated field at Chekurupadu village near N.G. Padu in Prakasam district on Monday.

Farmers rue their fate as incessant rain submerges fields in South Coastal Andhra Pradesh

The police seized a bus and two cars along with the banned tobacco

Six held for possessing 423 kg of banned tobacco products near Madurai

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