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Researchers identify key genetic factors causing oral cancer early among Indian tobacco chewers
01 Dec 2025 14:17 GMT
The new research has identified specific genetic markers that significantly increase susceptibility to oral cavity cancer, one of the most common and preventable cancers in India, primarily linked to tobacco use |Image used for representational purpose …
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Price plunge and lack of demand hit Indian tobacco farmers hard
07 Oct 2025 17:13 GMT
Even as yet another tobacco-crop season is set to begin, farmers growing Black Burley are at the crossroads in the absence of viable alternatives and no takers for this variety of tobacco. With a bleak season behind them, farmers in Andhra Pradesh are left …
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The Green Paradox: How India’s “Carbon Positive” Tobacco Giant ITC Profits From An Industry Burning Through Forests
15 Dec 2025 16:55 GMT
… mandate, however, is to promote Indian tobacco in international markets while ostensibly …
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Prospects of Indian tobacco growers may be hurt by excess rains in Karnataka
12 Aug 2024 21:00 GMT
Excess rains this monsoon is seen hurting the prospects of tobacco growers in South Karnataka, amidst an uptrend in global prices due to a production shortfall.
Growers said excess rains during June-July has impacted their crop prospects, resulting not …
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West Indian Tobacco Company's Raoul Glynn sent on administrative leave
27 Jun 2024 15:27 GMT
… of the Trinidad-based West Indian Tobacco Company, Raoul Glynn, has been …
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West Indian Tobacco Company Managing Director sent on leave
27 Jun 2024 12:59 GMT
… , the managing director of West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco), the cigarette manufacturer …
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Pen in Hand: Indian Tobacco: a plant highly esteemed by the Nuwä people
05 Dec 2023 05:18 GMT
… in the Tehachapi area are Indian Tobacco (Nicotiana quadrivalvis) and Coyote Tobacco … . This engenders ‘good dreams.’”
Medicinally, Indian Tobacco was placed on cuts to … age-old practice of harvesting Indian Tobacco apparently continued at least into …
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Indian Tobacco-to-Soap Conglomerate ITC Approves Hotel Spin Off
14 Aug 2023 13:55 GMT
(Bloomberg) -- The board of ITC Ltd., an Indian cigarette-to-consumer goods conglomerate, approved the long-awaited spin off of its hotel business, which it expects will be listed as a separate entity in about 15 months.
ITC, which counts British American …
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Indian Tobacco Company ITC Plans Spinoff of Hotel Operations
24 Jul 2023 11:07 GMT
(Bloomberg) -- ITC Ltd., an Indian tobacco company British American Tobacco Plc …
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‘Forex going up in smoke’
27 Nov 2025 00:31 GMT
… was the warning from West Indian Tobacco Company Ltd (WITCO) managing director …