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A migrant labourer was charred to death while asleep after a fire broke out in a room in Jammu Basti in Abohar on Tuesday.

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India’s beedi industry, shielded by political patronage and regulatory loopholes, thrives despite severe health risks and tax evasion. While manufacturers amass fortunes, millions of underpaid workers ...

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Sessions specific to the region focused on smokeless tobacco and bidis, smoke-free environments, and e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and nicotine pouches. Participants came from the priority ...

“The current tax on cigarettes in the country is 52.7%, while it is 22% on bidis and 63.8% on chewing tobacco,” he said. While pointing out that there are 245 million consumers of smoke and ...

“Currently, the highest rate of GST at 28% is levied on luxury goods and goods having negative impact on the society such as tobacco, cigarette, aerated drinks, alcohol, and gambling. Further, ...

This stagnation has made tobacco products, especially bidis and chewing tobacco, more affordable over the past decade, which has the potential to undermine past tobacco control success.