In Devalgaon, a small village nestled in the Arjuni Morgaon taluka of this district, lives Smt. Anju Markand Kapgate, whose ...

BJP MP Tejaswi Surya on Monday welcomed Sergio Gor, the U.S. Ambassador to India, to Bengaluru for a meeting focused on strengthening bilateral ties. Taking to X, Surya said the two leaders shared a ...

An additional excise duty on cigarettes and tobacco products, and a health cess on pan masala, will come into effect from 1 February. This additional duty is imposed over and above the highest 40% ...

New Delhi, Pan masala manufacturers need to apply for registration under the health and national security cess law immediately after it comes into effect from February 1, the finance ministry said on ...

An additional excise duty on cigarettes and tobacco products, and a health cess on pan masala, over and above the highest 40 per cent GST rate, will come into effect from February 1. The cess and ...

The Odisha government on Wednesday announced a complete ban on the manufacture and sale of gutkha and similar products containing tobacco and/or nicotine across the state. The move strengthens earlier ...

Pan masala manufacturers need to apply for registration under the health and national security cess law immediately after it comes into effect from February 1, the finance ministry said on Friday. For ...

Cigarettes and other tobacco products like Pan Masala are set to become expensive from February 1, 2026, after the government rolled out a sweeping overhaul of the excise duty framework, citing rising ...

The Union government’s recent changes to excise duty on cigarettes and the introduction of a machine-capacity-based cess on pan masala mark one of the most significant recalibrations of India’s ...

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 ...

The clock is ticking toward February 1, 2026-a date that marks the end of an era for India's tobacco and pan masala industries. For nearly a decade, these "sin goods" were governed by the transitional ...