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Parliament approves Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to levy excise duty on tobaccoParliament has approved a new bill. This legislation will allow for higher excise duty on tobacco products. This change will take effect on...
Karnataka cracks down on tobacco use: Legal age raised to 21, hookah bars banned under new lawKarnataka has implemented a strict anti-tobacco law. Hookah bars are now banned. The legal age to buy tobacco has increased to 21. Penaltie...
Hookah is more dangerous than cigarettes, can give Hepatitis, heart attack, cancer: Karnataka HCThe Karnataka High Court has upheld the state government's ban on the sale of hookah items, citing health risks associated with hookah smok...
Karnataka tightens cigarette laws: From sales to public smoking restrictions, new rules hereThe Karnataka government introduced the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Bill, 2024, raising the legal age for purchasing cigarettes. ...
Karnataka Assembly passes bill prohibiting hookah bars, use of tobacco products in public placesThe bill titled the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, S...
Hookah bars and their sale banned in Karnataka. Here's whyThe state government of Karnataka has imposed a ban on hookah bars, including the sale and promotion of hookah and its related ingredients....
Fire dept identifies 240 rooftop restaurants in Bengaluru violating fire safety normsThe Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services Department has identified more than 240 rooftop restaurants in Bengaluru, Karnataka, that a...
Karnataka plans to ban hookah bar, raise tobacco items purchase age to 21The government plans to increase the age limit for buying tobacco items to 21 years and ban hookah bars due to concerns over their addictiv...
Karnataka government to increase age for purchase of tobacco productsSpeaking after the meeting, the Health Minister said apart from schools, the sale and consumption of tobacco products had been banned aroun...
Despite ban, e-cigarettes widely available at tobacco shops, sold without age verification: SurveyE-cigarettes are widely available in India despite being banned by law, according to a joint survey covering seven areas, including Delhi a...
Karnataka will have basic FSL labs in every district to fight drug menace: Home MinisterAsserting government's strong commitment against the menace,the minister also said synthetic drugs like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) ha...
Permit regulated FDI in tobacco: Par panel on Commerce recommendsWelcoming the renewal of the Indian-Chinese Phytosanitary (related to plant) protocol on reviving the export of tobacco leaves to China, th...
Coronavirus cases rise to 283 in India; sees highest rise in a dayThe country is also set to observe a janata curfew from 7 am to 9 pm on Sunday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched for s...
Union Health Ministry's proposal to classify ENDS devices as 'drugs' sent to Attorney GeneralThe Union Health Ministry's proposal pertains to classifying ENDS devices including e-cigarettes as "drugs" under the Drugs and Cosmetics A...
Health ministry calls for halting sales of e-cigarettes, smoking devicesThe health ministry said it was possible that children and non-smokers using such products could switch to cigarettes once they get addicte...
Health ministry planning to issue advisory to states on risks of e-smoking"The public will be advised, in their own interest, not to use any such products, sold or marketed in any form and under any name or brand,...
How two low-cost, made-in-India innovations MiraCradle & Embrace Nest are helping save the lives of newbornsThe machines — MiraCradle & Embrace Nest — that would help cool the newborns cost over Rs 15 lakh and most hospitals in India do not have t...
Cafe Seven Beans: Huballi venture may expand to towns with a strategy different from CCD & StarbucksCafé Seven Beans, a venture founded in the town of Huballi, some 130 km to the southwest, will fill this void of a local hang-out place.
- Quest for fast growth lands India's microfinance institutions in soup
The quest for fast growth has landed india’s microfinance institutions in the soup. ET’s M Rajshekhar decodes the crisis and looks at the w...