A couple in their 20s has opened the first Karenni grocery store in the Twin Cities — stocking items that they say are hard to find even in Karen stores.

Betel nuts are eaten after having been processed commercially. Unripe or ripe nuts are shelled, boiled and sun-dried, then crushed with lime and catechu, a red, astringent extract made from boiled ...

Traditionally, they are combined with additives like kattha (catechu), chuna (slaked lime) and supari (areca nut), which unfortunately ... Applying a paste of fresh betel leaves directly to ...

A draft act to regulate the use and sale of betel nuts would be put on hold, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said yesterday amid strong resistance from the nation’s betel nut industry. The draft ...

In a significant operation, officials at Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House (JNCH), Nhava Sheva, recently seized 112.14 metric tonnes (MT) of areca nuts, popularly known as betel nuts or supari ...

The petitioner, a customs house agent, claimed the ambiguity on whether betel nuts would attract 100 per cent or 50 per cent basic customs duty has allegedly resulted in large-scale mis ...