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...
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For investors with long-term perspective: 6 large-caps from different sectors with an upside potential of up to 42%Here’s an interesting fact about the stock markets. A large majority of those in the market will say they are long-term investors. The real...
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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. ...
22 Feb, 2024, 10.01 AM IST
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...
21 Feb, 2024, 08.43 PM IST
These largecaps have ‘strong buy’ & ‘buy’ recos with upside potential of over 20%At a time when nifty is moving in and out of green territory, it would be better to add one more parameter to watch, that is market breadth...
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TCS faces hiring bias lawsuit in US; BJP MLA asks Centre to ban online gambling adsIn 2018, a California district court ruled in favour of TCS in a lawsuit filed by three former employees who accused the IT services provid...
12 Dec, 2022, 07.10 PM IST
Ban promotion of online gambling, Karnataka BJP MLA implores CentreKarnataka recently moved the Supreme Court challenging the High Court judgment early this year that had quashed key amendments to the Karna...
12 Dec, 2022, 03.52 PM IST
Online sales continue to surge; experts flag grievance panel concernsWhile offline trade boomed from this fiscal with withdrawal of all Covid restrictions and low infection rates, ecommerce continued its pace...
02 Nov, 2022, 08.14 AM IST
Farmers' body FAIFA asks Prime Minister Modi to withdraw bill on cigarette, tobaccoFederation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA) General Secretary Murali Babu said that in the amendment bill all the provisions of the...
13 Jan, 2021, 02.44 PM IST
Government set to push citizenship bill during winter sessionThe winter session begins on November 18 and will last till December 13. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend the definition of ...
16 Nov, 2019, 08.22 AM IST
GST in last lap: What's in it for businesses, firms and most importantly, you?The Lok Sabha nod will boost confidence that the implementation of the wide-ranging tax reform will meet the government's latest target of ...
30 Mar, 2017, 03.00 PM IST
need2know: Five macro triggers that may matter for market todayRBI is expected to stay put on the repo rate in its upcoming monetary policy next month because of rise in inflation -- both wholesale and ...
17 Mar, 2017, 07.59 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi to launch Rs 8,000 crore scheme for free LPG connections to poorModi will launch the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh on May 1 and do a repeat function at Dahod in Gujarat on May ...
22 Apr, 2016, 05.03 PM IST
Narendra Modi government shelves anti-tobacco bill“The tobacco growing farmers have requested that without providing a suitable alternative crop they should not be deprived of their livelih...
04 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Why government imposes tax on liquor despite being big businessLiquor is big business for governments. So naturally the tax rules are perverse. But there is method in this madness.
09 Jul, 2012, 11.52 AM IST
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- ITA slams AP anti-smoking law; terms it draconian
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