The Indian government has banned imports for low-cost ones (mostly Chinese) lighters to save a key sector in arid Tamil Nadu. Local companies employ more than 100,000 people, 90 per cent women.

Colombo, June 13 (Daily Mirror) - Local matchbox manufacturers claim that their factories are on the verge of closing down and they are currently in a critical situation due to the imports of ...

THOOTHUKUDI: The safety match manufacturers in Tamil Nadu are a disappointed lot as the state government has refrained from classifying cigarette lighters as single-use plastic products and thus ...

Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 15 (ANI): Matchbox manufacturers' association in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu held a protest march here on Friday, raising many issues associated with ...

After their plea to the Centre to strictly enforce a ban on the cigar lighters being imported from China has not yielded the desired results, the matchbox manufacturers have appealed to Tamil Nadu ...

New Delhi: The Delhi government has issued a strict compliance notice to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), asking it to prohibit passengers from carrying matchboxes and lighters in metro trains ...

Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today said he carries matchboxes and lighters on flights because, being a VIP, he is not frisked - and unwittingly landed the national carrier in an air ...

DMRC had in January taken lighters and matchboxes off the list of restricted items. (File) New Delhi: The Delhi government has issued a strict compliance notice to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation or ...