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World Cancer Day 2026: Dr. Bharat Agravat Unveils OLI Therapy and OSMF DIY
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], January 31: World Cancer Day 2026 In a landmark move to curb the rising tide of oral malignancies, renowned Oral Health Expert Dr. Bharat Agravat https://www.drbharat.agravat.com/ has launched the 2026 "United by Unique" campaign. This global initiative bridges t
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Odisha government imposes statewide ban on tobacco and nicotine products
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
In a groundbreaking move to protect public health, the Government of Odisha has officially banned the manufacturing, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution, or sale of all food products containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients in the state. This includes items s
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Karnataka seeks GST revenue protection, more tobacco excise duty sharing f
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Karnataka government has called on the Union Government, in the forthcoming Union Budget 2026-27, to ensure revenue protection for States post-GST rationalisation, share excise duty and cess on pan masala and tobacco products, release pending Central dues under flagship schemes such as th
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Lok Sabha passes Bill to collect cess for health, national security from p
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Lok Sabha on Friday passed The Health Security se National Security Cess Bill, 2025, whose objective is to raise additional funds from what is widely called demerit or sin goods -- such as pan masala -- for "Health Security" and "National Security."
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Parliament Winter Session: Lok Sabha to take up Health, National Security
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Friday move the Health Security and National Security Cess Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha for further consideration and passage during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
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Sitharaman moves Health Security se National Security Cess Bill in Lok Sab
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress MP from Haryana's Ambala Varun Chaudhury while noting that the Bill is silent on sharing the cess pool with States, suggested that the Bill be referred to a Select Committe. He noted that perhaps the name of a Bill is bilingual. The Bill can be in Hindi or English and need not be b
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Centre introduces bill to impose new cess on pan masala, Gutka for nationa
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
After a 'sin tax' on tobacco-related items during the GST rationalisation exercise, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday introduced 'Healthy Security se National Security Cess Bill, 2025', in the Lok Sabha. The Bill proposed a rigorous new tax regime on pan masala and gutkha manu
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Pan masala company owner's daughter-in-law dies allegedly by suicide in De
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Deepti Chaurasia, 40, daughter-in-law of Kamla Pasand owner Kamal Kishore, allegedly died by suicide in the national capital on Tuesday evening, officials said.
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Salman Khan in legal trouble over "misleading" pan masala advertisements;
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Bollywood actor Salman Khan has landed in legal trouble after a complaint was filed against him in the Kota Consumer Court, alleging that advertisements for a popular pan masala brand endorsed by him were "misleading."
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Successful completion of Special Campaign 5.0 by CBIC and its field format
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Around 250 Kgs of NDPS drugs (Heroin, Cocaine, Ganja, Charas, etc.), Gutkha/ Pan Masala, 26 Lakhs cigarettes of foreign origin, and e-Cigarettes valued at Rs. 1,011 Crores approx. The safe destruction of the field formations of CBIC is also a main milestone.
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NGT issues notices on alleged plastic waste violations by tobacco brands
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The petition claims that banned plastic packaging materials are still being used and calls for strict enforcement of existing regulations.
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UP Assembly bans pan-masala, gutka after spitting incident
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Following a pan-masala spitting incident in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Speaker Satish Mahana on Wednesday announced a ban on the consumption of pan-masala and gutka within the Vidhan Sabha premises.
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