Deepak Talwar is an influential tobacco consultant in India and confidant of the nation’s leading bidi maker. India Today Praful Patel (center) is India’s minister for heavy industries and a former ...

DHULIYAN, IndiaDHULIYAN, India — Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs ...

Bidi smoking cost India 805.5 billion rupees in ill health and early deaths in 2017 alone, finds research published in the journal Tobacco Control. The poor already bear the brunt of these costs, and ...

In January, the Indian government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum smoking age to 21 from 18, and to ban the sale of single cigarettes, which account ...

The GST Council on Wednesday overhauled tax rates on tobacco products, aiming to curb consumption while balancing economic realities. While cigarettes, gutkha, pan masala, and other tobacco products ...

New Delhi: Within days of many cigarette companies stopping production after the implementation of 85 percent pictorial warnings, the All India Bidi Industry Federation on Thursday said it will stop ...

Amidst controversy over a social media post seemingly equating “bidi” with Bihar, the Congress defended its Kerala unit, claiming the remark was taken out of context and twisted by political rivals.