Budget 2012 announced a proposal to increase basic excise duty on cigarettes of more than 65mm length by adding an ad valorem component of ...

Cigarette makers heaved a sigh of relief as union finance minister kept excise duty on cigarettes unchanged in the Union Budget 2011-2012.

The government on Tuesday decided to retain the existing pictorial warnings on cigarette and bidi packages for one more year.

India's largest cigarette firm ITC, maker of India Kings, Gold Flake and Navy Cut, has stopped production at all its manufacturing units.

Even as the Union commerce ministry has been talking for the last few months about a 10-year plan to phase out cultivation of the Flue-Cure...

The Tobacco Institute of India (TII) director on Thursday urged the government to formulate a pragmatic and equitable taxation policy to re...

Tobacco industry has urged finance minister P Chidambaram to retain the specific duty structure on cigarettes and make it an exception to v...