INDUSTRY BLUES: The beedi industry in Solapur employs 70,000 women many of whom have lost their jobs.

Now, beedi industry faces jobcuts in Maharashtra

Strict implementation of the ban on smoking have left thousands of people working in the beedi (local cigarette) industry job-less in Maharashtra. The economic downturn has very little to do in it. Rahimatbi has been a part of Solapur's beedi industry for 40 years but now she has lost her job.

Pictorial warnings on cigarette, beedi pack soon

It is method followed in many other countries to make smokers kick the butt.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/pictorial-warnings-on-cigarette-beedi-pack-soon/59982-3.html

Smoking kills and how: See for yourself

Govt gives go-ahead to implement gory pictorial warnings on cigarette packs.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/smoking-kills-and-how-see-for-yourself/59956-3.html

Cigarette, beedi packets will now depict death

The pictorial warnings could be either a scorpion or lungs.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cigarette-beedi-packets-will-now-depict-death/59909-17.html

Ramadoss kicks butt, says ask before smoking

The Health Minister has been politically correct in putting health before politics.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ramadoss-kicks-butt-says-ask-before-smoking/45307-3.html

Beedi warning a bone of contention

The skull and bone warnings won't appear on cigarette and beedi packs now and Ramadoss is upset.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/beedi-warning-a-bone-of-contention/41207-3.html

Kerala's beedi goes up in smoke

Once a bastion of the communist party, Dinesh Beedi cooperative is today nearing extinction.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/keralas-beedi-goes-up-in-smoke/37700-3.html

Kerala beedi industry's last puff

Kerala's beedi industry dies a silent death but also dying are old centres of Communist mobilisation.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/kerala-beedi-industrys-last-puff/37658-3.html

Gulzar sobers down after Beedi

Gulzar is now doing an entire album of limericks for children with the duo who made Salman Khan starrer Lucky.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/gulzar-sobers-down-after-beedi/30333-8.html

New Years with beedi bundle, stray dog

For over 1,50,000 homeless in the national capital it was just another day of a numbing battle for survival.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/new-years-with-beedi-bundle-stray-dog/30002-3.html

Beedi warning too scary: Andhra House

Assembly passes resolution that warning on packets be toned down for the sake of beedi workers.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/beedi-warning-too-scary-andhra-house/28221-3.html

Beedi industry in AP is up in smoke

There's a smoking controversy in Andhra Pradesh that involves the beedi business and a lot of politics.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/beedi-industry-in-ap-is-up-in-smoke/27096-4.html

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