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According to the youth groups, increasing excise on all tobacco products can be a very effective policy measure to address the immediate need to raise revenue by the central government.
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New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Friday notified new specified warnings for all tobacco products by making an amendment in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008. The amended rules will be applicable from December 1 and remain valid for a period of 12 months. All tobacco products manufactured, imported […]
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New Delhi: Finding a date can be difficult because everyone is so particular and set on what they want from their partner. Furthermore, if you are a smoker or addicted to other tobacco products, your chances of finding ‘the one’ are diminished. Smoking has lost its allure over time, but has this resulted in a […]
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United Nations/Geneva: The economic impact of cleaning up littered tobacco products fall on taxpayers, rather than the industry creating the problem and each year, this costs India about USD 766 million, the World Health Organisation said. Marking ‘World No Tobacco Day’, the global health organisation said Tuesday that every year the tobacco industry costs the […]
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Warangal: Task Force police team has raided the house of one Komuravelli Punnamchander of SRR thota locality under the Mills Colony police station limits here on Sunday and seized banned tobacco products worth Rs 1.90 lakh from his house. “During the questioning, Punnamchander said that he had gone to Bidar and purchased the tobacco products. […]
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Warangal: A Task Force team has intercepted a car and apprehended Md Yakub Pasha, a resident of Mandibazar while transporting banned tobacco products near Panchadhan college under Matwada police station here on Friday. On interrogation, Pasha told the police that he went to Bidar of Karnataka and purchased the tobacco products in order to sell […]
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Sangareddy: Sanagreddy Rural Police have seized a huge quantity of the Gutkha and tobacco products from a godown at Vidyanagar Road number 3 near Poythireddypally junction in Sangareddy town on Friday late evening. Speaking to news reporters on Saturday, DSP Sanagreddy A Balaji said that the Rural Police have found that the godown is owned […]
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Mancherial: The Macherial police on Saturday seized banned tobacco products worth Rs 5.05 lakh after conducting a raid on the hideout of a smuggler in the district. Task Force Inspector AK Mahender and Mandamarri Sub-Inspector Bhumesh said that Pindi Suresh, a trader of Mandamarri town, was found to be storing the banned products at his […]
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Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police Special Operations Team (Malkajgiri) raided a house at Jawaharnagar where LPG cylinders were being illegally refilled and seized 33 cylinders on Monday. Acting on a tip off, the team raided the house and found one Santosh refilling small LPG cylinders illegally. The police also seized tobacco products worth Rs 15,000 from […]
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Hyderabad: Public health groups, doctors and researchers have urged the Union Ministry of Finance to increase excise duty on all tobacco products including cigarettes, bidis and smokeless tobacco in the upcoming Union Budget of 2022-23, which can be a very effective policy measure to address the immediate need to raise revenue by the central government. […]
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Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice A Rajasekhar Reddy dismissed a batch of writ petitions challenging a notification issued by the government in banning/restricting sale of gutka and other tobacco products across the State. The panel observed that a similar question was dealt by Mumbai […]
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Adilabad: Police arrested two persons and seized banned tobacco products worth Rs 30 lakh at Bhoraj village in Jainath mandal on Thursday. The police said that accused were smuggling the products from Hyderabad to Raipur of Chhattisgarh by a van. According to Police, the duo was found to be transporting the prohibited products without carrying […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (south) team raided a shop at Mirchowk and seized tobacco products and e-cigarettes being sold illegally. The police seized property worth Rs. 2.5 lakh. The shop owner Mohd Sohaib (25), a resident of Talabkatta in old city, was running a shop ‘Lucky collection’ at Pathergatti. “Zameer was selling cigarettes […]
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Hyderabad: Public health groups along with doctors and economists have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products to generate additional revenue for the government. In their appeals to GST council before its meeting on September 17, they urged the council to consider an extra-ordinary measure of levying compensation cess on […]
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Acting on a tip off, the team raided a shop at Mirchowk and caught two persons Shailender Prasad (55) and Sudesh Kumar (52), both residents of Khairatabad
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Police seized Rs 3,60,000 worth gutkha from the accused along with a car
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Acting on a tip off, the Commissioner's Task Force (North) team caught K Mallikarjun (40) of Bowenpally, Suresh Ram (36) of Balanagar and Sitharam (22) of Jagadgirigutta
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Police said Ajay Singh (30), a resident of Jiaguda, was caught while he was selling ganja at the ITI Grounds in Kalapather on Saturday afternoon
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Task Force on Wednesday, simultaneously raided different places in Santoshnagar and Madannapet and nabbed two persons on charges of illegally selling gutkha, tobacco products and foreign cigarettes. The police seized material worth Rs 3 lakh from them. The arrested persons along with the seized material were handed over to the Santhoshnagar and […]
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Acting on a tip-off, the team raided New Royal Chaliya store located at MJ Market and caught Anwar Ali, proprietor of the store