Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir hike VAT on tobacco products

Increase in tax in previous years decreased tobacco consumption in Rajasthan

Health ministry fumes over ads terming gutkha ban unfair

Calls them misleading and unjustified

Unicef ranks India poorly in child mortality

Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better

Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches

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