The central government, responding to a contempt petition, informed the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court that it has issued notices to actors Akshay Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, and Ajay Devgn in......
Kalaburagi Jail chief superintendent R Anitha on Thursday said that an unknown person sent an audio message via a police inspector claiming that they will blow up her car. IMAGE: Kindly note that......
History-sheeter Guru Waghmare who was murdered at a spa in Mumbai had tattooed on his body the names of 22 persons who could potentially harm him, police said on Thursday as they arrested at least......
Gutka baron Jagdish Joshi, accused of having underworld links, surrendered his passport to the Crime Investigation Department in Pune on Thursday.A person representing the Goa Gutka owner......
Maharashtra government was contemplating a ban on gutka and pan masala products, Deputy Chief Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar said in Mumbai on Sunday. "It does not......
At the annual general meeting of Reliance Industries earlier this week, Isha Ambani, director at Reliance Retail Ventures, announced that the company is foraying into the fast-moving consumer goods......
Even as raw material prices start cooling off from their peaks, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies’ margins are expected to remain under pressure at least in the next quarter.......
Eight states have banned gutkha. Others are following suit. Veenu Sandhu on the people who have brought this powerful industry to its knees Last month, policemen in Naxal-infested Gadchiroli......
The finance ministry has decided to take stringent measures against pan masala and gutka (chewing tobacco) units indulging in clandestine excise duty evasion estimated at about Rs 1,800 crore (Rs......
Some cigarette-smokers may switch to beedis, or gutka, which is probably not the outcome the health ministry wants, says Devangshu Datta. The Union ministry of health is considering a ban on......
After lending her star power to PETA, several endorsement deals and a hot item number in Shootout At Wadala, Jism 2 actress Sunny Leone is set to team up with Mumbai Mirror actor and Gutka baron......
Debutant director Visakh G S is ready with Masala Republic, a satirical entertainer on the ban of pan masala. Indrajith plays Sub Inspector Shambhu, who has been appointed by the government as the......
'This time he spreads more than his arms. He finds wings,' declares Sukanya Verma. It takes Tolkien-sized vision to show how the smallest person can change the course of the future. Anaand L Rai's......
... you won't feel anything either, feels Sukanya Verma. What makes the great costume dramas of Hindi cinema so awe-inspiring is their ability to transfix and transport the viewer into......
Marathi film Sairat will stay with you for a really long time, raves Divya Nair. It’s been less than 24 hours since I watched Sairat and I just cannot stop raving about it. Where do I......
IMAGE: Kapil Dev and Chris Gayle, who were last spotted in a television ad during IPL 2023 promoting gutka. Day 1 of the ICC World Test Championship final witnessed cricket luminaries Kapil......
IPL can be truly said to have come of age. It is now more Indian than ever before. Teams often fielded fewer than the four allowed foreign players. Indian batters and bowlers were simply better in......