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...
23 Apr, 2024, 12.45 PM IST
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
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....
08 Feb, 2024, 02.29 PM IST
Congress, 'INDIA' parties trying to shield perpetrators of Parliament security breach: BJPThe BJP's IT department head Amit Malviya also slammed the Congress and said, "Rahul Gandhi never disappoints; always talks trash. For the ...
16 Dec, 2023, 07.26 PM IST
Lok Sabha security breach on Parliament attack anniversary: All you need to knowA young man with a smoke can in his hand jumped in the Lok Sabha and tried to move forward but the MPs surrounded him, and Hanuman Beniwal ...
14 Dec, 2023, 12.43 PM IST
Security breach on Parliament attack's 22nd anniversaryOn the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, two individuals jumped from visitors' gallery number 4 into the L...
13 Dec, 2023, 11.51 PM IST
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...
20 Sep, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
28 states, UTs ban smokeless tobacco products, spitting due to coronavirusPublic health experts have welcomed the move by the central government to ban the use of tobacco products and spitting in public places to ...
10 May, 2020, 02.50 PM IST
Allow smoking, lose bar & eatery licence: BBMP to bars in BengaluruThe circular is hailed as a victory to the sustained campaign by antitobacco activists including oncologist Dr Vishal Rao, who is a member ...
30 Aug, 2018, 10.51 AM IST
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,...
19 Nov, 2017, 12.01 PM IST
Burning Lakes: Custody of city's water bodies being passed on from one civic agency to anotherThe state government has quietly transferred custody of Bellandur lake back to the BDA, just five months after it was handed over to the ci...
20 Feb, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
- Preschools in residential areas must vacate: BBMP
Members of the Karnataka Council of Preschools, the Federation of Montes sori Schools and the Indian Montessori Centre are meeting on Wedne...
18 Jan, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
World No Tobacco Day: 15% Bengaluru PU students consume tobaccoIn Karnataka, 30% of the adult population, estimated at 1.5 crore is addicted to some form of tobacco.
31 May, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
Bengaluru IT companies told to ban smoking on campusAs per Section 4 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003, smoking is banned in all public places in India to protect passive ...
02 Nov, 2015, 11.23 AM IST
Over 23,000 persons booked under COTPA in Jammu and Kashmir: PolicePolice has booked 23,754 people for violating COTPA by smoking in public places from May 2013 to May 2015, they said.
02 Jul, 2015, 05.01 PM IST
- ITA slams AP anti-smoking law; terms it draconian
BANGALORE: The Indian Tobacco Association has described as draconian the 'Andhra Pradesh Prohibition of Smoking...Act', which was passed on...
30 Mar, 2002, 02.14 PM IST