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  'Bidis, Bihar start with B': Congress faces heat over GST remarks, JDU retorts with 'Buddhi' jibe

  India | September 05, 2025 12:34 IST

  Responding strongly to the Congress, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary called it an insult to the entire state. “First, the insult to the revered mother of our honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, and now the insult to the entire Bihar," he said.

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  Tobacco industry to halt production, cites ambiguity in govt policy for pictorial warnings

  April 01, 2016 20:56 IST

  New Delhi: The Indian tobacco industry today announced that it will stop the production of all its products with immediate effect citing ambiguity over Centre’s direction to carry pictorial warnings on the packets of all

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  Hummer murder: Court hands life imprisonment to Kerala beedi baron for murdering guard

  India | January 21, 2016 17:18 IST

  Thrissur: A Kerala court today sentenced Kerala's beedi baron Mohammed Nisham to imprisonment for life along with a fine of Rs 80.30 lakh. He was yesterday convicted for killing his security guard by ramming his

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  Hummer lynching: Court finds multi-millionaire Kerala bidi baron guilty of killing guard

  India | January 20, 2016 22:06 IST

  Thrissur: A court in Thrissur has found multi- millionaire bidi-maker Mohammed Nisham guilty of killing his 51-year-old security guard Chandra Bose by running him over by his luxury car Hummer.The guard, Bose, drew the ire

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  PHFI calls for increasing tax on 'bidi', oral tobacco products

  March 06, 2015 7:56 IST

  New Delhi: A public health organisation yesterday called for raising taxation levels for 'bidis' and oral tobacco products to deter people of low income group including women and young from using them as the organisation

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  Incredible India! Around 95 Percent Families Of A Village Trapped In Life Of Bidi Rolling In West Bengal

  India | March 18, 2012 12:12 IST

  Dhuliyan (West Bengal), Mar 18: 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