Both had bad teeth and frequently interrupted their labors to light cheap, hand-rolled cigarettes known as bidis from the embers of their forge. Kailashi was embarrassed about the soap melee.

Public Health experts have called for innovative strategies for revitalising India's tobacco cessation drive and also ...

Inmates at Central Prison in Shivamogga demand bidis, attack staff, throw stones, scold officials, leading to police complaint.

I n a bustling Indian city, a corporate executive at a multinational corporation has been a smoker since his teenage years, ...

New Delhi, The Centre informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that there was no proposal to raise the excise duty on cigarettes, 'bidis' and smokeless tobacco. In a written reply to a question ...

that she smoked too many bidis, the strong Indian cigarettes tied together with string. It took longer than expected to get everybody attended to, and I watched one quartet of widows walk out ...

A second concern is that removal of agricultural subsidies would hurt farmers and small-scale manufacturers, including those that make cheap thin-rolled cigarettes called bidis. While it is true that ...

GST sleuths detect ₹82,000 crore tax evasion by online gaming firms, leading to only ₹53 crore voluntary recovery.

Consensus reached in informal cabinet Administrative correspondent, Bhopal, The leaders waiting for political appointment in ...

Before the ban, an individual was allowed to import only 800 sticks of cigarettes or 1,200 sticks of bidis or 150 pieces of cigars, or 750 grams of other tobacco or tobacco products. The economic ...

Lung cancer was a significant health issue in India, comprising 14.3% of all new cancer cases and being the second most common type of cancer. Smoking was a major contributor, with environmental ...