The government on Wednesday notified February 1 as the date from which additional excise duty will be levied on tobacco products, and a new cess on pan masala. The new levies on tobacco and pan masala ...

New Delhi: An additional excise duty on tobacco products and a health cess on pan masala will be levied from February 1, replacing the existing goods and services tax (GST) compensation cess levy on ...

New Delhi: A 28-year-old eatery worker was killed in east Delhi’s Shashi Garden near Pandav Nagar early Wednesday following an altercation over smoking a beedi, police said, adding that the suspect, a ...

The Marine Police have seized ₹71 lakh-worth beedi leaves even as it was about to be smuggled to Sri Lanka by boat in the early hours of Saturday. When the marine police, led by Inspector Petchimuthu, ...

After launching the “Remix” tool in August in a server-side update, Google Photos is bringing the image-to-cartoon feature to more users in a much wider rollout. The Remix tool in Google Photos was ...

Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” has been given the club treatment, thanks to a remix by the Chainsmokers. Today, Swift’s official fan account, Taylor Nation, announced on Instagram that the “The ...

Beedi and cigar workers are set to gain from guaranteed minimum wages and regulated working hours. India, this week, rolled out four consolidated labour codes, effective November 21, in a major reform ...

Android users are now getting a major injection of AI in their Google Messages app. Last week, Google announced a number of Android updates, including a major new Pixel feature drop. Among the many ...

A young woman was allegedly forced to smoke beedi and drink alcohol while being subjected to hours-long physical and mental torture in the name of black magic in Kottayam district of Kerala, police ...