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Cigarette packets with graphic pictorial warnings are pictured on the counter of a cigarette seller in Mumbai

Tobacco Products to Carry Pictorial Warning on 85% of Packaging Space: SC

The apex court, on January 8, had stayed the...

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Health Ministry Extends Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products Till August 31

The extension was made considering the impending expiry of...

A shopkeeper selling cigarettes waits in his store at a market in Mumbai, India, January 6, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Shailesh Andrade

Supreme Court to Hear Plea on Pictorial Warning on Tobacco Products Today

A Karnataka high court order had quashed the government...

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India Threatens Philip Morris With ‘Punitive Action’ Over Alleged Violation of Anti-Smoking Laws

Aditya Kalra 18/08/2017

The letter sent by the health ministry revealed how...

The government of India, through five state-run insurance companies and Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India, owns a 32% stake in ITC. Credit: Reuters

LIC Thinks PIL Against Its Investments in Tobacco and ITC Is Frivolous

Anoo Bhuyan 26/06/2017

The public interest litigation seeks the divestment of 32%...

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What’s in a Pack? Sickness, Death and the Power of a Lethal Lobby

Jayna Kothari 31/05/2016

The tobacco industry and its political backers have delayed...