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WHO imposes Rs 250-cr tobacco tax on India
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has imposed a Rs 250-crore tax on India, for non-compliance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the WHO. Official sources said, the tax called as “solidarity tobacco tax” has been imposed on 43 countries for not complying with the proposed anti-tobacco measures in 2008-09. The amount is an annual tax to be paid for each year, since

Uday Abhyankar: Reforms, entitlements and poverty

The process of economic reforms in India has had a curious pattern, lethargy punctuated by occasional bursts of activity. After dramatic reforms in the 1990s, recent years have seen only occasional

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Agri ministry plans elimination of non-cigarette tobacco crop

The tobacco control programme of the ministry of health may see some paradox. In its strategy to curtail tobacco production to control its usage in India, the ministry of agriculture has decided to

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Efforts to mitigate climate change are insufficient: UN
International efforts to mitigate climate change are insufficient to meet the goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a United Nations report warned on Monday, just a month before a major conference on the issue is held in Durban, South Africa.

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India wants contentious issues to figure in Durban climate talks
India made it clear on Monday that it wants contentious issues, including access to intellectual property rights (IPRs), to be a part of the upcoming climate change talks at Durban in South Africa.

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Uday Abhyankar: The other side of the spectrum

The allocation of 2G spectrum in January 2008 has generated a great deal of heat. But it is less clear how much light the passionate recriminations have cast. There are two sets of issues involved

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