Senior forest officials in Haryana are locked in a turf war over illegal tree felling. This dispute highlights a wider problem of instituti...

Jaipur consumer forum issued notices to Shahrukh Khan, Ajay Devgan, Tiger Shroff, and JB Industries over a misleading Vimal Pan Masala ad. ...

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on August 6 notified October 1, 2024, as the date for levy of up to Rs 1 lakh penalt...

Government extends CBIC's new procedure deadline for pan masala and tobacco product manufacturers till May 15 to improve GST compliance, fa...

Kothari, who owns the Dum Pan Masala, had started another company by launching Rotomac Pen in 1995. He was initially involved in the busine...

While the Budget did not change the basic excise duty for cigarettes, it increased the additional excise duty for filter cigarettes which w...

On January 18, the Delhi Government had written to several Bollywood personalities including Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan asking them not ...

Pan masala manufacturers have come under the scanner of the central revenue department for possible excise duty evasion.

The government today imposed a five per cent export duty on iron pellets, a critical raw material for the steel industry, and raised excise...

Gutkha and pan masala packaging units have found an alternative in paper and aluminium foil pouches.

On alternative ways of packing gutka, he said their are provisions of packaging gutka in paper and aluminium foils but it will increase the...

The ban on sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets beyond March 1, will severely hit the industrial city's Rs 400-crore gutka industry ...

In a setback to the manufacturers of gutkhas and pan masalas, the Supreme Court has banned the sale of such products in plastic sachets fro...

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly also asked the manufacturers to explore and decide by March 2011 on the alternative materia...

Godfrey Phillips India entered the pan masala category by launching premium pan masala brand Pan Vilas in Jaipur.

While the industry may be celebrating the reduction in median excise duty rate from 16% to 14%, the return of a small, seemingly innocuous,...

The wheel has come full circle exactly two years after the state enforced a ban on the manufacture, sale, store and display of gutka in 200...