Mumbai: An Air India cabin crew was detained by the London police for allegedly smuggling 50 cigarette crates.
Though some members of the crew were released later Bhavik Shah, who admitted to his crime, was detained for eight hours. Later, Air India bailed him out by paying 5,000 pounds. Confirming the incident, a senior Air India official said the cabin crew member has been suspended.
"We suspended crew member Bhavik Shah for the alleged incident on the same day when it was reported," an AI official told PTI.
According to airline sources, the incident took place last Friday after Air India's Mumbai-London flight landed at the Heathrow airport....
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02:32 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Kolkata: As lakhs of investors affected by the chit fund scam demand refund, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to increase tax on cigarettes by 10 per cent to help them. She said smoking more won't harm, but help investors. "We have decided to increase the tax on cigarettes by 10 per cent in order to raise money for the Saradha Relief Fund. It wouldn't harm if you...
01:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Sports utility vehicles, imported cars and motorcycles, mobile phones, eating out at air-conditioned restaurants and cigarettes will become costlier with Finance Minister P Chidambaram deciding to impose higher taxes on these items. On the other hand, there is good news for ladies as far as jewellery is concerned as they will be allowed to bring more duty free gold items provided they have stayed out of India for more than...
02:25 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Three teenagers including a girl were beaten up by miscreants beat after their father refused to give them cigarettes at Patan in Palamu district, police said on Monday. The teenagers' father Amrika Paswan has shop which sells cigarette. On Sunday evening some miscreants came to the shop and demanded cigarettes. ...
12:23 PM, Feb 25, 2013
New Delhi: A new Lancet study reveals that there are more smokers worldwide than previously thought and that the global tobacco burden may have been underestimated. In the light of these revelations, does India need tighten its anti-tobacco campaign? The new study says that over half the world's population consumes tobacco. That's around 852 million people worldwide according to the new estimates. 661 million worldwide smoke and 247 million are...
06:32 AM, Aug 17, 2012
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05:35 PM, Aug 16, 2012
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01:06 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the health and family welfare ministry on film director Mahesh Bhatt's plea seeking quashing of a notification prohibiting smoking scenes in movies. Bhatt said that the government's notification of Sep 27, 2011 was 'illegal and arbitrary' and violated his fundamental rights. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher refused to stay the notification as sought...
03:53 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: Smokers can greatly cut down the risk of disease and death by replacing cigarettes with their smokeless version. They provide a much safer alternative to smokers, because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking, says Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville (UofL), who led the study. 'Quit or die' has been the brutal message delivered to 45 million American smokers -...
06:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Washington: Cannot resist your urge to tweet or check emails? Don't get surprised, as a new study has found that checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. US researchers who carried out an experiment to test the will power of 205 people, aged 18 to 85, in the German city of Wurtzburg found that most of them were more likely to give in to urge...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Smoke emitted from one mosquito repellant coil is equivalent to those of 100 cigarettes, thus causing harm to a large number of people in India, an expert said Wednesday. "Not many people know about it, but the damage done to your lungs by one mosquito coil is equivalent to the damage done by 100 cigarettes. This was according to a recent study conducted in Malyasia," said Chest Research...
10:26 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New York: Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant, according to a Swedish study. Snuff -- ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn't generate the same additional chemicals as cigarette smoke because it's not burned -- is generally assumed to be safer than cigarettes, said lead researcher Anna Gunnerbeck, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. That's...
12:23 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Richmond: In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use. Among the images to appear on cigarette packs are rotting and diseased teeth and gums and a man with a tracheotomy smoking. Also included among the labels are: the corpse of a smoker,...
05:57 PM, Jun 21, 2011
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12:20 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: Union cabinet is likely to take a decision on a request from the tobacco industry to increase the duration of display of a set of pictorial warning in cigarette and other tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry approached the Cabinet for a direction in this regard to seek clarity about the demands being made by other ministries who are facing the brunt of decrease in tobacco production in...
03:24 PM, Dec 03, 2010
London: Nicotine that makes smoking addictive is one of the chemicals in cigarettes that can trigger breast cancer, says a new research. Normal cigarettes are known to contain at least 60 cancer-causing compounds, including carbon monoxide, tar and arsenic, but until now nicotine had not been on the list, reports the
Daily Mail. Researchers looked at both breast cancer cells and normal cells to see if nicotine spurred tumour growth...
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