If increasing cigarette taxes is a public health measure to discourage smoking, then lowering beedi taxes to ‘protect’ rural workers ignores the long-term cost to their lives. While most tobacco ...

“We do not know if it is a ganja beedi… It is just too much!” These were the words of a senior lawyer making his case against an image of Arundhati Roy smoking a beedi on the cover of her new book — ...

A dispute over a beedi escalated into murder in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, where three friends allegedly beat their companion to death after he refused to share. The victim, Sonu Pal, was later found in a ...

Association president and MLA Tanveer Sait and general secretary K C Showkath Pasha have written a letter to the PM’s office on Monday, October 13, 2025, on the refusal of the Beedi Hospitals to ...

New Delhi: A 28-year-old eatery worker was killed in east Delhi’s Shashi Garden near Pandav Nagar early Wednesday following an altercation over smoking a beedi, police said, adding that the suspect, a ...

Beedi and cigar workers are set to gain from guaranteed minimum wages and regulated working hours. India, this week, rolled out four consolidated labour codes, effective November 21, in a major reform ...

A now-deleted social media post from the Kerala Congress comparing "Beedi and Bihar" has triggered a storm. What was apparently intended as satire on proposed GST rates for bidis has instead ...