Right to rage
Sir — Anger is typically defined as a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or aggression. It is, however, also a critically useful emotion — anger is often the human res...
Cigarette-to-hotels conglomerate ITC is open to the idea of unlocking shareholder value by listing its non-tobacco businesses like hotels, infotech and fast-moving consumer goods but will not be persu...
Up in smoke
Sir — Where there is a will, there is a way. But for most smokers in India, it seems that their will to quit burns out faster than their cigarettes. What else explains the findings ...
Mallik said social media giants had a duty of care, especially to their younger users. “Though bidis are more harmful to health than other tobacco products, they have flown under the regulatory ...
Guinness attempt
It took Nirit three days to count the butts and figure out that 70 per cent of them were products of the same manufacturer. He now wants to approach this company to put up specialise...
ITC Ltd has reported a 22.6 per cent increase in revenues from operations in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal even as profit slipped 2.79 per cent on a consolidated basis in the same period becau...
Smoking is not only a hazard to your own health, but also to those around you. It’s time to quit.
Quitting cigarettes is probably one of the toughest things that you will ever do. Some people I...
An elderly man suffered fatal burns while striking a match to light a cigarette at his Kasba home.
The 68-year-old man, whose windcheater caught fire, was hospitalised on Tuesday afternoon and he die...
Bokaro was on Thursday declared the second smoke-free district in Jharkhand after Ranchi.
Bokaro achieved the smoke-free tag following a survey by the government in compliance with various sect...
The government has no plans to increase central excise duty on cigarettes, bidis and smokeless tobacco, Parliament was informed on Monday.
“The GST rates on goods, including compensation cess r...