Beedi aka the poor man's cigarette wrapped in leaves plucked from the tendu tree (Diospyros melanoxylon) could disappear from petty stores three years down the line. Jaleel Puttur, federation ...
Beedi smokers have an elevated gastric cancer (GC) risk as compared to 'never smokers', according to the first cohort study on the subject in the country, a top RCC official said. (Representational ...
Beedi workers across Telangana await inclusion in the Aasara pension scheme, as outdated rules exclude those with post-2014 EPF accounts. Unions have slammed the State government for not fulfilling ...
Patna (Bihar) [India], Sep 14 (ANI): The elder son was sitting beside her and the younger son was in her lap, she bowed her head and was constantly rolling the tendu leaves filled with tobacco to make ...
"We have implemented the 85 percent pictorial warnings and now they can be seen on the new packets in the market," a company spokesman told IANS. (Reuters) Beedi manufacturers across India today ...
If increasing cigarette taxes is a public health measure to discourage smoking, then lowering beedi taxes to ‘protect’ rural workers ignores the long-term cost to their lives. While most tobacco ...
MANGALORE: Karnataka government asked Institute of Social and Economic Change ) to conduct a comprehensive study on declining work and resultant mass labour lay-off in the beedi industry. MANGALORE: ...
AIIMS Jaipur study says that the government should make beedi workers aware about the health hazards of beedi rolling, smoking, and passive smoking. For the betterment of the beedi workers and society ...
As dusk descends on Madna village, Bulan Bibi walks slowly down the road towards what can at best be described as a shack — a platform with a tarpaulin cover. Under it sits a teenage boy with a pile ...
The revenue this year so far stands at just Rs. 469 mn Only 840 of the 1,140 licensed beedi manufacturers renewed their licenses this year following the tax increase Excise Department attributes the ...
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