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Murshidabad’s forgotten crisis: Beedi workers struggle amid charged political debates, SIR deletionsIn Murshidabad's beedi belt, children work alongside mothers to meet daily targets. Families earn meager wages for rolling beedis. Contract...- West Bengal polls 2026: Amid welfare push, bidi work sustains women in Malda villagesIn Malda's remote villages, women are actively engaged in bidi-making, a traditional livelihood. This self-employment provides income indep...
- Congress comparing people of Bihar with 'bidis' insult to all 'Biharis', NDA to make it poll issue: BJPThe BJP has strongly criticized the Congress for a controversial social media post by its Kerala unit that allegedly compared the people of...
- Reduce tax on 'bidis', keep it out of purview of proposed changes in COTPA: SJMThe government should create alternative employment and livelihood options for those who depend on bidi industry to earn their livelihood b...
- World No Tobacco Day: How cigarettes, bidis & hookahs affect the bodyTobacco contains many chemical substances such as nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar and potential carcinogen.
- View: Why ban vaping but not the more dangerous bidis?Vaping has certainly caused some deaths and diseases but these pale into insignificance when compared to more than a million deaths a year ...
- Bidi smoking cost India Rs 80,550 crore last year: StudyBidi -- a cheap cigarette made of unprocessed tobacco wrapped in leaves -- is very popular in India, accounting for 81 per cent of the toba...
- GST rollout from July 1 will have serious problems: Amit MitraThe finance minister has to decide whether it should go ahead with the biggest fiscal reform when the IT preparedness is not 100 per cent, ...
- Include 'bidi' in demerit category under GST: ExpertsThe Indian market of smoked tobacco is dominated by bidis, which outsell cigarettes by 8:1 ratio.
- Include bidi in GST's demerit category: ExpertsOncologists at Tata Memorial Hospital said bidis, which cause 5.8 lakh deaths annually in India, are as dangerous as cigarettes and should ...
- Centre, states may settle for 4 per cent GST on gold, silverA similar case is also being made for handloom and handicrafts, where some states as well as the textiles ministry is in favour of either e...
- Government mulls compulsory licensing for 'other tobacco products'These tobacco products include khaini, tobacco blended pan masala, hookah or gooduku tobacco, zarda, bidis and other chewable/eatable tobac...
- 'Sin Tax' on tobacco below 40% to have negative impact: Voluntary Health Association of AssamVHAA demanded at least 40 per cent sin tax with a provision for states' right to impose top-up taxes on all types of tobacco, like cigarett...
- Budget 2016: NOTE wants Excise duty to be hiked for 'bidis' as wellUnion Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in the budget presented today, increased Excise duty on tobacco products by 10 to 15 per cent, but exe...
- Tobacco products cheaper than essential food items: WHO study"Prices of tobacco products in the country have not increased substantially over time, thus making these products even cheaper than essenti...
- How increased excise duty on cigarettes has made the Indian market vulnerable to Chinese brandsIn a country where about 102 billion cigarette sticks were smoked in FY15, illegal brands and cheap imports aren’t new, although they’re sp...
- From sleek packaging to exotic flavours, bidis getting makeover to lure urban smokersNew bidi brands Camel, Black Swan and Enigma being introduced to take on cigarettes as urban smokers try out cheaper alternatives.
- Budget 2012: Government should tax all forms of tobaccoGovernment’s current administration of tobacco taxes neither serves the purpose of revenue generation, nor serves the public good and deter...
- Pictorial warnings must for tobacco goodsIt will now be compulsory for packs of cigarettes, bidis and chewing tobacco to carry pictorial warning to discourage tobacco consumption e...
- Mandatory pictorial warning to push up cigarette cos' costsThe introduction of compulsory pictorial consumption will inflate manufacturing and packaging costs of the cigarette industry by at least 2...
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