New Delhi: Under flak for watering down pictorial warnings on tobacco products, and for coming under pressure from the tobacco lobby, for the first time the government is focusing on beedi smokers. It has planned a new ad campaign to start from Monday and wants to set up 5 labs to test beedi content. The Health Ministry's latest initiative to spread awareness on the ills of beedi smoking is a...
08:29 AM, Aug 01, 2011
The Union Health Ministry has cleared a new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products such as cigarettes, beedis, gutka, and cigars in India, which will be visible from December 1, 2011. ...
05:54 PM, May 28, 2011
The industry has sacked many workers citing losses incurred. ...
01:49 PM, Nov 21, 2008
Jaipur: The secretary of the Rajasthan Cricket Association Sanjay Dixit has distanced himself from the day to day affairs of the body due to the infighting going on for quite some time and the imminent threat of the Irani Trophy match being taken away from Jaipur. Though Dixit has not resigned from his post but he has declared that he would hand over the lock and key of the RCA...
10:00 PM, Feb 27, 2008
London: Never a permanent fixture in England's one-day team due to his inconsistent form, batsman Ravi Bopara says he is aiming to cement his place by scoring big against the hapless Indian team in the ongoing five-match series. Bopara has played 61 ODIs and averages 28. Injury to Eoin Morgan is the reason why he has been drafted into the side for the India series, and the 26-year-old wants to...
04:25 PM, Feb 27, 2008
New Delhi: His chances of playing in the Champions League T20 seems pretty bleak but Gautam Gambhir will take a final call on his participation latest by next Sunday, according to sources. Gambhir, had to return from England as he has been suffering from concussion due to a nasty fall while running backwards to take a catch and has been advised complete rest by the doctors as of now. Gambhir...
11:32 PM, Feb 26, 2008
The Health Minister has been politically correct in putting health before politics. ...
04:45 PM, Jul 20, 2007
The skull and bone warnings won't appear on cigarette and
beedi packs now and Ramadoss is upset. ...
09:27 AM, May 24, 2007
Once a bastion of the communist party, Dinesh Beedi cooperative is today nearing extinction. ...
01:12 PM, Apr 04, 2007
Kerala's beedi industry dies a silent death but also dying are old centres of Communist mobilisation. ...
09:06 PM, Apr 03, 2007
Gulzar is now doing an entire album of limericks for children with the duo who made Salman Khan starrer
Lucky. ...
08:35 AM, Jan 05, 2007
For over 1,50,000 homeless in the national capital it was just another day of a numbing battle for survival. ...
05:32 PM, Jan 01, 2007
Assembly passes resolution that warning on packets be toned down for the sake of
beedi workers. ...
09:59 PM, Dec 11, 2006
There's a smoking controversy in Andhra Pradesh that involves the
beedi business and a lot of politics. ...
12:39 AM, Nov 27, 2006
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