The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) Gurugram Zonal Unit (GZU), Haryana has arrested one Satyender Sharma, resident of Haryana, on charges of manufacturing and supplying illegally manufactured cigarettes

From electronic products, furniture and cars to apparel, fashion accessories and food, smaller towns are outpacing metros and big cities in consumption revival. Will this sustain?

Until now, ITC was highly conservative when it came to acquisitions, marketing and geographical expansions compared to Hindustan Unilever and others

In its document 'COVID-19 Pandemic and Tobacco Use in India', the ministry said experts have confirmed that smokers are more likely to develop severe symptoms or die from COVID-19, as it primarily attacks the lungs and warned against use of any such products

Prolonged exposure to smoking a tobacco cigarette leads to thickening of blood vessels and making them weak in the long run, which can lead to blood clots and ultimately in stroke or heart diseases

ITC's acquisition of Sunrise is its biggest deal in the past two decades and shows company's readiness for inorganic growth to meet the turnover target of Rs 1 lakh crore for its non-cigarettes FMCG business by 2030

Coronavirus lockdown extension live updates: From Tuesday, Haryana will restrict movement to satellite cities of Gurugram and Faridabad. Borders in Sonipat and Jhajjar have already been tightened

While air quality monitoring has begun to expand under NCAP to address data deficit, without a methodical system for reporting, it will remain unusable and can't drive change in cities

In 2018 and 2019, one extreme weather event happened almost every month in India, says CSE and Down To Earth's State of India's Environment 2020 report

One of the reasons for such half-baked measures by the government is that while the impact of pollution doesn't take very long to develop, its effect is dispersed over large population, says Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at the George Mason University and Research Fellow with the Mercatus Centre

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

There is growing awareness and demand in the society on education. This is also seen in the yearly increase in the children admitted under the Section 12(1)(c) that mandates private schools to reserve 25 per cent of their seats for students from disadvantaged sections

The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019 was notified on December 6 making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such \"alternative\" smoking devices a cognisable offence attracting jail term and fine

Godfrey Phillips India was top gainer among the cigarette stocks, surging as much as 7.97 per cent to touch 52-week high of Rs 1,354 apiece on the BSE

Citing health risks, India in September banned the import, manufacture, sale, advertisement, storage and distribution of e-cigarettes, dashing future plans of companies such as U.S.-based Juul Labs and Philip Morris International

The 20-day session, scheduled between November 18 and December 13, will see the introduction of 27 bills, consideration and passage of 12 Bills and withdrawal of seven

Apple on Saturday banned 181 vaping-related apps from its app store worldwide owing to a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarette and vaping products

Voicing confidence that the ban on e-cigarettes will be highly effective as the consumer base is small at present, he said taking the ordinance route was an approach to nip the problem in the bud.

Making the country great was not the job of the Central government, but that of 130 crore Indians, said PM Modi

In his monthly radio address to the nation through 'Mann Ki Baat', PM warned that e-cigarettes, which are used as a \"fashion statement\", are a new way of getting addicted to nicotine