Cigarette prices have significantly increased following a new excise duty. This tax hike, the first in seven years, aims to align India's t...

Cigarette prices have surged by at least ₹22-25 per pack following a new excise duty. Premium cigarettes will see an increase of ₹50-55 per...

KT&G, the maker of ESSE cigarettes, has filed a lawsuit in Delhi High Court. This action follows raids on 14 wholesalers in Delhi NCR. The ...

Authorities in Gujarat have busted a factory producing large quantities of counterfeit Colgate toothpaste, along with fake Sensodyne, Eno, ...

Delhi Police have dismantled a counterfeit goods racket, arresting six individuals involved in the production of fake antacids, toothpastes...

"The high taxes are creating a huge demand for smuggled and counterfeit products across the country and are forcing millions of small and i...

Various battalions of the forces intercepted smugglers transporting the illicit consignments using bikes, cars and trucks while hiding them...

FICCI CASCADE (Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy), said the seizure of foreign brand cigaret...

Smugglers pay protection money to various insurgent groups who use these amounts in subversive activities, Assam Additional DGP Mukul Sahay...

The report by Ficci body CASCADE pegged the loss in seven industry sectors at Rs 1,05,381 crore, increasing 44.4 per cent between 2011-12 a...

Over 56 per cent smokers prefer attractive packaging of foreign smuggled brands which does not adhere to Indian regulations like pictorial ...

The pricing and regulatory differential with neighbouring Afghanistan also plays a key role in the continued inflow of smuggled cigarette i...

Assam has seen an influx of cheap king-size cigarettes from Bangladesh, China and Myanmar into Assam, with Northeast has become a distribut...

Amongst the various sectors, the maximum revenue loss was from counterfeiting and illicit trade is tobacco products 23% and Rs 9,139 crore.

India has lost annual tax of more than Rs 26,000 crore in 2012 due to counterfeiting, smuggling and tax evasion.

High excise duty on cigarettes in India has resulted in the growth of contraband trade of the product with the total market estimated to re...

Contraband cigarettes, estimated to be at Rs 1,700 crore, are posing a threat to the livelihood of five million tobacco farmers in the coun...