Shares of ITC dropped over 3% after British multinational BAT Plc trimmed its ownership in the conglomerate by divesting a 2.5% stake for ₹12,927 crore ($1.51 billion) through a block deal. The stock ...

British American Tobacco sold the shareholding in Indian conglomerate ITC for more than initially planned.

On Wednesday, BAT sold 31.30 crore ITC shares, representing 2.5 per cent of the company’s total outstanding equity via its ...

British American Tobacco has sold a $1.5 billion stake in Indian consumer goods company ITC at 413 Indian rupees per share, ...

The problem, say campaigners, is that chewing tobacco has always been seen as socially acceptable in India. Whole families, generally unaware of the danger, will share these products at the end of ...

Wrapped inside a betel leaf and placed in the side of the mouth, tobacco has been chewed for centuries in India. But it is only in the last decade that tobacco companies have started selling ...

$420 million over four years to the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. Of the total, $280 million will bolster work in low- and middle-income countries, including India and China, to reduce ...