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COTPA AMENDMENT BILL
Improvement in ITC’s FMCG business key for investor confidenceThe cigarette segment sales moved up by 3.5 per cent but its net profit declined 8 per cent. The metro markets are yet to recover to their ...
12 Feb, 2021, 07.30 AM IST
View: There is a need for high taxes uniformly across all tobacco productsHigher taxes will work in tandem with greater controls, and will help GoI pay for all the direct and indirect costs it incurs due to tobacc...
20 Jan, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
Removal of smoking rooms, increasing smoking age, licensing will adversely impact business: NRAIRemoval of smoking areas will mean consumers will have no avenue to smoke at bars, restaurants or at airports, which will not only hugely i...
20 Jan, 2021, 01.56 PM IST
Farmers' body FAIFA asks Prime Minister Modi to withdraw bill on cigarette, tobaccoFederation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA) General Secretary Murali Babu said that in the amendment bill all the provisions of the...
13 Jan, 2021, 02.44 PM IST
FRAI urges PM Modi to order recall of proposed changes in law on cigarettes, other tobacco productsFRAI, which claims to represent 4 crore micro, small and medium retailers from across India with membership of 34 retail associations from ...
07 Jan, 2021, 12.51 PM IST
Health Ministry mulling to increase legal age for tobacco consumptionThe committee, besides increasing the legal age of tobacco consumption, has also recommended increasing the fine amount for violation of ru...
23 Feb, 2020, 03.09 PM IST
Government re-initiates process of amending Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products ActThe aim is to make it more effective and more inclined to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) guidelines, sources sa...
13 Aug, 2019, 11.32 PM IST
India needs comprehensive tax policy for curbing tobacco use: WHOThe Centre, this January, has moved to amend the anti- smoking law and proposed radical changes, including a ban on sale of loose cigarette...
22 Mar, 2015, 11.20 AM IST
Ban sale of loose cigarettes: Voice of Tobacco Victims Kerala to PMVictims of tobacco use and their doctors, brought together under umbrella of Voice of Tobacco Victims Kerala, have appealed to PM to ban sa...
15 Jan, 2015, 06.10 PM IST
Narendra Modi government shelves anti-tobacco bill“The tobacco growing farmers have requested that without providing a suitable alternative crop they should not be deprived of their livelih...
04 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST