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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) Lucknow, 23 November 2025: Creature Industry, one of India's leading packaging machinery manufacturers, has officially launched its next-generation Masala Packing Machine, ...

Both Sontex’s new packaging machines work with corrugated board. Credit: Fevziie/Shutterstock. Packaging machinery company Sontex has launched its latest skin packaging systems, the Skin 5035 and Skin ...