Bidis

The MP from Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh also said around 80 per cent of the cancer deaths are due to addiction to tobacco, cigarettes, and 'bidi'.

Two brothers were arrested for allegedly killing a ragpicker in a fight over 'bidi' (type of thin cigarette) in central Delhi's Daryaganj area, police said on Wednesday.

In a gruesome incident, a man killed his father over a dispute for a 'Bidi' (a thin cigarette filled with tobacco flake and commonly wrapped in a tendu) in Assam's Barpeta district, informed police on Wednesday.

A 49-year-old labourer was killed allegedly by three men in southeast Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area after he refused to give them a ''bidi'' (a type of thin cigarette), police said on Saturday.

"As a revenue measure, I propose to raise excise duty, by way of National Calamity Contingent Duty on Cigarettes and other tobacco products. However, no change is being made in the duty rates of bidis," the Finance Minister had said in her Budget speech.

Replacing the existing images, the Health Ministry has released a new set of pictorial warnings for mandatory display on packets of cigarettes, bidis, and chewing tobacco with effect from April 1 this year.

Ahead of a crucial GST Council meeting, various health groups have strongly recommended that tobacco products, including bidis, should be taxed at uniformly high rates under the new indirect tax framework.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said appropriate action would be taken if it was found that beedi tycoon Muhammed Nisham, now serving imprisonment for killing a security guard, had been provided undue facilities at Kannur central prison, where he is lodged.

Parliamentarians, medical experts and health advocates today appealed to the GST Council to levy 40 per cent sin tax on all tobacco products to curb the addiction.

Two Lok Sabha members today opposed increasing the size of pictorial warning on tobacco products, saying it had adversely affected farmers and bidi workers and their livelihood was in danger.

India's tobacco industry has sought to delay strict new health warning rules by appealing to the Supreme Court, a move anti-smoking activists say could backfire given that the court has ruled against cigarette makers in the past.

Kerala multi-millionaire Mohammad Nisham has been given life term and an additional 24 years imprisonment, for the murder of Chandrabose, the security guard of his posh residential society whom he ran over with his Hummer in a fit of rage a year ago.

Will our Prime Minister be equally proud in showing off selfies with our poor and emaciated children bending over packets of bidis they are being forced to bind in "family enterprises" which he has legalized?

Terming the health and social costs of tobacco use "intolerable", Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asking him to impose a steep uniform hike of Rs 3.5 per cigarette so as to make their cost prohibitive and discourage consumption.

Workers at a U.S. funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

The MP from Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh also said around 80 per cent of the cancer deaths are due to addiction to tobacco, cigarettes, and 'bidi'.

Two brothers were arrested for allegedly killing a ragpicker in a fight over 'bidi' (type of thin cigarette) in central Delhi's Daryaganj area, police said on Wednesday.

In a gruesome incident, a man killed his father over a dispute for a 'Bidi' (a thin cigarette filled with tobacco flake and commonly wrapped in a tendu) in Assam's Barpeta district, informed police on Wednesday.

A 49-year-old labourer was killed allegedly by three men in southeast Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area after he refused to give them a ''bidi'' (a type of thin cigarette), police said on Saturday.

"As a revenue measure, I propose to raise excise duty, by way of National Calamity Contingent Duty on Cigarettes and other tobacco products. However, no change is being made in the duty rates of bidis," the Finance Minister had said in her Budget speech.

Replacing the existing images, the Health Ministry has released a new set of pictorial warnings for mandatory display on packets of cigarettes, bidis, and chewing tobacco with effect from April 1 this year.

Ahead of a crucial GST Council meeting, various health groups have strongly recommended that tobacco products, including bidis, should be taxed at uniformly high rates under the new indirect tax framework.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said appropriate action would be taken if it was found that beedi tycoon Muhammed Nisham, now serving imprisonment for killing a security guard, had been provided undue facilities at Kannur central prison, where he is lodged.

Parliamentarians, medical experts and health advocates today appealed to the GST Council to levy 40 per cent sin tax on all tobacco products to curb the addiction.

Two Lok Sabha members today opposed increasing the size of pictorial warning on tobacco products, saying it had adversely affected farmers and bidi workers and their livelihood was in danger.

India's tobacco industry has sought to delay strict new health warning rules by appealing to the Supreme Court, a move anti-smoking activists say could backfire given that the court has ruled against cigarette makers in the past.

Kerala multi-millionaire Mohammad Nisham has been given life term and an additional 24 years imprisonment, for the murder of Chandrabose, the security guard of his posh residential society whom he ran over with his Hummer in a fit of rage a year ago.

Will our Prime Minister be equally proud in showing off selfies with our poor and emaciated children bending over packets of bidis they are being forced to bind in "family enterprises" which he has legalized?

Terming the health and social costs of tobacco use "intolerable", Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asking him to impose a steep uniform hike of Rs 3.5 per cigarette so as to make their cost prohibitive and discourage consumption.

Workers at a U.S. funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.