The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday notified new rules for anti-tobacco warnings on OTT platforms. This notification mandates OTT platfo...

OTT platforms may soon be mandated to display anti-tobacco warnings and disclaimers as are seen in movies screened in theatres and in telev...

According to rule five of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, the specified health warning on tobacc...

The committee, besides increasing the legal age of tobacco consumption, has also recommended increasing the fine amount for violation of ru...

The aim is to make it more effective and more inclined to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) guidelines, sources sa...

A bench today made "absolute" its earlier interim order by which it had stayed the High Court order.

The court will hear pleas that have challenged the HC verdict of striking down the 2014 amendment rules that mandated pictorial health warn...

Passing its orders, the high court bench held that the Union Health Ministry does not have any jurisdictional power to make such rules.

Moreover, hotels, restaurants and airports will now have to prominently display a board at the entrance of designated smoking areas with th...

A Parliamentary panel has recommended framing an "equitable and pragmatic" National Tobacco Control Policy so various organs of govt can wo...

Nearly nine lakh people die every year due to diseases attributable to tobacco use in India and the govt has taken a series of measures to ...

The Delhi government today issued challans to several educational institutions for allegedly not following rules under the Tobacco Control ...

In an order, the DGP directed all district police chiefs to implement the rules related to section 5 of COTPA (restriction of tobacco adver...

On February 28, the department had undertaken a massive awareness and enforcement drive in the city during which 60 shops were raided.

As per earlier rules, pictorial warnings covered 40% of just the front surface of the cigarette packs in India.

Government will launch a fresh campaign against tobacco smoking to warn people about the health hazards and the penalties to be faced by vi...

The court also slammed the Centre for "conniving" with the tobacco lobby when people are daily dying of cancer.