Despite the growing incidence of oral cancer, anti-smoking laws remain poorly enforced in the state capital. Public smoking and illegal tobacco sales continue unchecked, contravening regulations under ...

How Mumbai was once central to Swiss intercountry adoptions—and the questions that remain ...

An excerpt from ‘A Trip to Delhi,’ by Rashid Jahan, in ‘Basti & Durbar, Delhi-New Delhi: A City in Stories,’ an anthology ...

such as the tax exemption granted for manufacturers of hand-made bidis and those with a turnover below certain threshold.29 30 The Indian government has sought to standardise tobacco tax policy with ...

Of note, bidis are often either manufactured by small companies or produced in the home and, therefore, tend to be unaffected by typical tobacco control initiatives. Indian women typically use oral ...

40,242 packets of bidis and cigarettes, 40,914 narcotic tablets/injections, 3,787 bottles of Iscaf syrup, 208 bottles of MKDil/Kofidil, 6,97,872 pieces of various medicines and tablets and 59,969 ...

In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a ...