BJP MP SC Gupta crosses over to SP, to contest from BandaAn SP release on Saturday said that Gupta will be its candidate from Banda Lok Sabha seat.
16 Mar, 2019, 03.38 PM IST
BJP MPs in UP fear denial of tickets as party looks to overcome anti-incumbencyWhat’s making matters worse for these MPs is that some MLAs from the party appear to be readying to contest the election and that some memb...
13 Mar, 2019, 07.53 PM IST
Health ministry: A slew of programmes for kids in 2015Health Ministry agreed to bring into force larger pictorial warnings on tobacco products from next year as the issue remained in news for m...
29 Dec, 2015, 11.32 AM IST
Bigger pictorial warnings on tobacco products from April next: GovernmentA notification to this effect was issued today by the Health Ministry saying that all tobacco products will carry warnings covering 85 per ...
28 Sep, 2015, 09.49 PM IST
Tobacco warnings: Bidi baron Shyama Charan Gupta renominated to parliamentary panelBidi baron Shyama Charan Gupta has been nominated to the reconstituted panel looking into the issue of increasing size of pictorial warning...
07 Sep, 2015, 10.26 PM IST
Agriculture department for bigger tobacco warningsThe department of agriculture has said it doesn't support tobacco cultivation and has thus "no objection" to the amendment notification.
15 Aug, 2015, 12.02 PM IST
Tobacco pictorial warnings will be bigger: GovernmentThe statements of the two BJP members that there was no Indian study to link use of tobacco with cancer had triggered a row recently.
25 Apr, 2015, 11.37 AM IST
Government committed to bigger pictorial warnings on tobacco: JP Nadda"There is a direct relation between the consumption of tobacco and cancer... The ministry is consistent and crystal clear in its efforts to...
24 Apr, 2015, 07.33 PM IST
Research has been done and it's a known fact that tobacco causes cancer: Top health officialThe Centre had stayed the decision to increase the size of pictorial warnings on tobacco products, which was to come into effect from April...
07 Apr, 2015, 05.01 PM IST
No going back on bigger warnings on tobacco packs, says Heath ministry"In our submission to the parliamentary committee,we said the same thing. There is no change in the ministry's stand since then" an officia...
06 Apr, 2015, 11.19 AM IST
Not asked to quit Parliamentary panel,says BJP MP Shyam Charan GuptaGupta is a member of the Committee of Subordinate Legislations examining the provisions of Cigerattes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003.
05 Apr, 2015, 02.45 PM IST
Pro-tobacco MPs Shyam Charan Gupta, Dilip Gandhi and Ram Prasad Sarmah may be axed from panelRam Prasad Sarmah had kicked up a controversy by saying that there was no link between cancer and smoking. He claimed it had "medicinal val...
05 Apr, 2015, 11.13 AM IST
Government will take measured decision on pictorial warning on tobacco products: FM Arun JaitleyJaitley's comments came amid reports that PM Modi had directed removal of the members with conflicting interests from the Committee on Toba...
04 Apr, 2015, 09.54 PM IST
VHP demands uniform law to 'rectify' demographic 'imbalance'Jain also made it clear that the Ram temple is very much on the agenda and urged the government to remove obstacles in the way of its const...
04 Apr, 2015, 08.07 PM IST
Another BJP MP wades into smoking row, government dissociates itself from remarksGupta are members of Parliamentary Committee of Subordinate Legislation looking into the rules regarding tobacco sale in the country.
03 Apr, 2015, 09.39 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Maverick contestants add colour to Varanasi contestVaranasi has attracted not just VIP contestants but a bunch of others bordering on the bizarre who are running for the Lok Sabha election h...
29 Apr, 2014, 07.17 AM IST
BJP brushes aside dissent, clout in UP, banks on OBCs for big winPoll managers have taken the traditional rivalry between Thakurs and Brahmins into account, and refrained from being generous towards the c...
22 Mar, 2014, 11.16 AM IST