The state commercial taxes department in an order on Saturday gave permission to the excise commissioner to allow home delivery of liquor t...

After the retail sales of liquor were resumed after six weeks of closure in May, several state governments facing shortage of financial res...

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M R Shah asked TASMAC to file affidavit within three weeks about the mechanism of...

The Tamil Nadu government moved the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court order for closure of state-run liquor outlets on the grou...

The Supreme Court refused to pass any orders to this effect, but suggested that it could be a better alternative than the chaos which has f...

The scrum wouldn’t suggest it but Indians are not, relatively speaking, big drinkers. Only 14.6% of the population drinks. And there’s a bi...

"We have increased the excise duty by 11 per cent. Other than this during the budget also the excise duty was increased,"Chief Minister B S...

Shops reopened in red, orange & green zones with guidelines in place amid the lockdown.

Liquor sale was one of the most contentious issues during the lockdown period as it was a major revenue generator for states. The Home Mini...

A Nielsen survey found over 42% of consumers in India will cut their spending on alcohol and tobacco products to reduce discretionary spend...

Industry executives said there were nil sales of these two categories in April in the white channel due to government prohibition. This is ...

States having been losing an estimated Rs 700 crore a day due to the liquor ban. With simultaneous losses on the GST front, these lost reve...

In an order, Excise Commissioner Ravi Dhawan said all the licensee such as clubs, hotels, restaurants, wholesale and liquor outlets are war...

Drinking alcohol weakens the body’s immune system, according to the Health ministry, WHO.

The Delhi government is exploring the possibility of opening liquor shops in the city during the lockdown. The government has asked the exc...

The CIABC, which is the apex body of the Indian alcoholic beverage industry, has sent letters on Monday to chief ministers of 10 states -- ...

While grocery shops are the only ones selling cigarettes since pan-and-cigarette shops remaining closed for the 21 days lockdown, these ret...