Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Following the direction of the union government, Tripura and Meghalaya will ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of gutka (tobacco–laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala (a chewing mixture), officials said on Tuesday. Health department officials of Tripura and Meghalaya said that both the States have already taken initiative to …
ORAL cancer is the sixth most common cancer reported globally with roughly two thirds of these reported in developing countries, according to a report. Regardless of nationality, roughly half of long-term smokers will die from the effects of tobacco smoking, be it oral cancer, lung cancer or cardiovascular disease. In …
Jaipur:In a step to discourage the sale and consumption of tobacco products, the medical health and family welfare department has directed district collectors to launch a campaign to remove all the advertisement boards which violate the rules pertaining to point of sale of tobacco products. The Union ministry of health …
Assam is all set to table a bill to ban manufacturing, sale and storage of all kinds of smokeless tobacco products in the state. Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the bill would be tabled in the assembly in the ongoing budget session. He said the bill was awaiting …
GUWAHATI: The Assam Government has decided to ban the sale of gutka and smokeless tobacco in the State. The government is planning to introduce a Bill in the Assembly soon in this regard. If this Bill is passed by the Assembly, it will pave the way for Assam to become …
Disease Affecting More Women Than Men, Reveals ICMR Study Lucknow: Oncologists in the country see Uttar Pradesh as the emerging cancer capital of India. Findings of the Population Based Cancer Registry functioning under the National Cancer Registry Programme of Indian Council of Medical Research, suggest that UP accounts for more …
SHILLONG: People’s lifestyle has always been a factor in one’s health and this is true in Shillong too. With the rise in what doctors consider unhealthy life style the death rates too are rising. In the last 5–6 years Meghalaya has seen a huge rise in Cancer rates in the …
Centre, doctors have recommended ban on the cancer-causing product While 14 states in the country have banned manufacture and sale of gutka in accordance with the Centre’s directions, Karnataka is dragging its feet on the issue. The government is yet to take a decision in this regard, despite doctors’ associations …
‘40% Of Smokers Want To Quit The Habit’ Jaipur: Alarmed over several deaths reported in the state due to cancer caused by tobacco consumption, the medical, health and family welfare department has launched a massive anti-tobacco awareness campaign in rural Rajasthan, which is one of the biggest campaign in the …
Joining the league of tobacco-free states, the Odisha government on Tuesday imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale and consumption of guthka in the state. “Rising up to its concern for healthy living of common people, the state government has decided to ban tobacco containing gutkha according to section 234 …
Anti-tobacco activists urge the Government to follow the Australian example Days after Australia became the first country in the world to have brought in plain packing of tobacco products, anti-tobacco activists in the country have urged the Indian Government to follow this health-friendly trend. Lok Sabha MP Baijayant Panda this …
The incidence of oral cancer could see a drop. This is the hope held out by a survey conducted four months after the state banned gutkha and pan masala in July. Of a total of 2,500 respondents, 94% (2,350 people), including gutkha users, said the ban was justified. The survey …
Directors of 14 regional cancer centres across the country, including the Indian Dental Association and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Health Minister Ghulab Nabi Azad urging them to bring in a nationwide ban on the sale of gutka/pan masala products in the …
In one half of a PLOS Medicine Debate, Simon Chapman lays out a case for a smoker's license designed to limit access to tobacco products and encourage cessation.
Malda: Bidis bind villagers of Malda’s Uttar Dariyapur together, and so does cancer. Tucked away in a corner of Naoda Jadupur gram panchayat, about 20km south of Malda, nearly every household in the village has amember with cancer. In the last one year, more than 100 people have died of …
AIZAWL: With the number of cancer patients rising in Mizoram, the Lal Thanhawla government is seriously putting its effort to establish a cancer hospital and research institute in Mizoram. The rising cases of cancer patients in Mizoram has been caused by the excessive use of tobacco products by the people, …
Issue advertisements saying ban unfair when tobacco content is higher in cigarettes manufacturers in a few states have moved court against the ban Piqued by the number of states opting to ban the production, sale and marketing of gutkha, a group of manufacturers under the aegis of the Smokeless Tobacco …
SILCHAR : The consumption of tobacco and its related products are one of the causes of the dreaded disease cancer and the best way to keep oneself away from its spectre is to avoid the bad habit, pointed out Dr Ravi Kannan, eminent onco-surgeon and director of Cachar Cancer Hospital …
PANJIM: Staff of health department will be trained to implement the Control of Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), whose provisions ban smoking in public places, as part of measures to effectively implement the Act in Goa. The move suggested during a brainstorming session of a workshop on ‘Tobacco Control and the …
With a number states deciding to ban use and sale of gutka, the Union health ministry has urged the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government to follow its counterparts in rest of the country in banning sale of such products in the state. So far, states of Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Rajasthan, …
