Tobacco crackdown: India mulls stricter FDI normsThe Commerce and Industry Ministry plans to tighten foreign direct investment (FDI) norms in the tobacco sector to curb promotional activit...
28 Jul, 2024, 12.36 PM IST
GSTN rolls out special procedure for tobacco manufacturers to register machines with tax authoritiesThe GST Network (GSTN) has introduced an online facility for manufacturers of pan masala, gutkha, and similar tobacco products to register ...
17 May, 2024, 02.19 PM IST
Tax non-virginia tobacco to earn Rs 40,000 crore revenue: NGO writes to CentreThe NGO Shram has already written to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the issue urging to...
24 Aug, 2020, 01.15 PM IST
DPIIT kickstarts exercise to ease FDI norms moreThe department held an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss further opening up in sectors, especially where 100% FDI is not allowed on the ...
30 Oct, 2019, 12.02 AM IST
Budget 2019: What's cheaper and what's dearerHere's a list of what will be cheaper and what will be dearer as the budget proposals kick-in.
05 Jul, 2019, 06.11 PM IST
Commerce ministry asks health ministry to frame law to ban manufacture, sale of e-cigarettesThe health ministry had asked the commerce ministry to issue a notification banning import of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), ...
10 Apr, 2019, 05.49 PM IST
Godfrey Phillips rejects FDI norms violation allegations; says in complete compliance with lawGodfrey Phillips has an exclusive procurement and supply agreement with Philip Morris International to manufacture and distribute Marlboro ...
11 Mar, 2019, 11.20 PM IST
Karnataka HC strikes down 85% pictorial warning rule for tobacco productsPassing its orders, the high court bench held that the Union Health Ministry does not have any jurisdictional power to make such rules.
15 Dec, 2017, 11.47 PM IST
Government wants 28 per cent tax on all tobacco productsThe ministry, which has favoured higher taxes on all tobacco products for long, also highlighted that tiered tax structure for cigarettes n...
11 Apr, 2017, 08.08 AM IST
Cabinet may soon consider complete FDI ban in tobacco sectorThe Commerce and Industry Ministry has forwarded the final cabinet note for the Cabinet's consideration, sources told PTI.
16 Nov, 2016, 03.38 PM IST
Plain packaging for cigarettes will kill industry: Tobacco institutePlain packaging means there would be no branding or promotional information on the packet. They would be replaced by graphic health warning...
31 May, 2016, 03.45 AM IST
Plain packaging will destroying legal domestic industry: TIIUnder plain tobacco packaging currently followed only in Australia, logos, colours, imagery and promotional information are not allowed on ...
30 May, 2016, 06.49 PM IST
CSR by tobacco companies: Brand promotion or social welfare?The new Companies Act makes it mandatory for all major corporate entities to spend at least 2 per cent of profit on CSR (Corporate Social R...
13 May, 2015, 01.59 PM IST
Government to set up labs to test tobacco contents and emissionsIn phase-II, two more regional labs will come up in Central Drug Testing Laboratory, Hyderabad and Regional Drug Testing Laboratory in Chan...
04 May, 2015, 08.16 PM IST
Parliament panel concerned more about business and not healthThe panel’s report has given some very interesting reasons to emphasise that the size of pictorial warnings should not be increased from 40...
04 Apr, 2015, 04.38 AM IST
- Big tobacco wins: Pictorial warnings go up in smoke
The new warnings were meant to be much more powerful than cautionary notices on the ill-effects of tobacco.
10 Dec, 2010, 05.40 AM IST
- FDI effect on countryside to impact policy review
The department of industrial policy & promotion (DIPP) has asked the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) to conduct a stu...
10 May, 2007, 05.19 AM IST