Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 10, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Harsh Vardhan seeks tax of Rs 3.5 per stick on cigarettes, bidis

Earlier increase in tax ineffective in deterring smokers as it focused on length of cigarettes and led to production of shorter length cigarettes,…

If cigarettes can be expensive, why not bidis?

Taxes on tobacco products in India are way below the internationally-accepted standards

Pictorial warnings still missing from cigarette and chewing tobacco packets

No tobacco product sampled in Delhi had new warning mandated from April 1, says survey by non-profit

Rural health, malnutrition get attention

Health sector overall allocated even less than what it received last year, say experts