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Delhi HC to hear Karti Chidambaram's plea to quash CBI FIR on Aug 12The Delhi High Court is set to hear Karti Chidambaram's plea on August 12, seeking to quash a CBI FIR accusing him of providing undue relie...- Liquor sales on the rocks: Regulatory roadblocks slow Pernod Ricard, Heineken sales in key Indian marketPernod Ricard and Heineken experienced slower sales growth in India during the March quarter due to regulatory hurdles and temporary disrup...
- Delhi High Court fixes April 16 for Karti Chidambaram's plea to quash CBI FIRThe Delhi High Court has postponed the hearing of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram's plea to quash a CBI FIR until April 16. Karti claims the ...
- United Breweries resumes beer supplies to Telangana amid ongoing financial challengesUnited Breweries Limited (UBL) has resumed supplies to Telangana Beverages Corporation Ltd. after halting operations due to losses and over...
- CBI books Karti Chidambaram in fresh corruption caseThe CBI has filed a new corruption case against Karti Chidambaram for allegedly helping Diageo Scotland lift a ban on duty-free whisky sale...
- Create a common market for liquorIrregularities in award of liquor licences in India crop up with depressing regularity. An inordinate share of state governments' revenues ...
- Liquor traders urge Delhi government to help dispose 70 lakh-bottle leftover stockDelhi government had on November 17, 2021 brought Excise Policy 2021-22, which ended the near absolute monopoly of the government in sale o...
- Delhi hits the bottle, goes back in timeThe excise duty on alcohol accounts for around 10-15% of own tax revenue in most states. Bootleggers grease the palms of law enforcers, exc...
- In Tamil Nadu poll time, everyone loves to hate boozeIt's Karuna who is committed to prohibition, his fans say. Jaya, they say, merely followed Karuna in talking prohibition, and she's yet to ...
- Tamil Nadu elections: Using liquor revenues for freebies is not economically sustainableElections are contested mainly on the personal popularity of Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi, and on competition in freebies.
- Partial prohibiton triggers wine consumption in KeralaWine-drinking has caught up in Kerala over the past two years, especially after the state government imposed partial prohibiton.
- DMK promises waiver of crop loan availed by small & micro farmersKarunanidhi said, “We are not saying will bring in prohibition step by step because there are no steps in this. We are saying that we will ...
- J Jayalalithaa jumps into the 'prohibition' bandwagon tooJ Jayalalithaa broke her silence on the party’s stand on prohibition in the state and said she will impose it in a phased manner if voted t...
- How much a liquor ban can help in curbing alcohol consumptionThe World Health Organisation finds that the average Indian drinks 4.3 litres of alcohol a year.
- Tamil Nadu sees dip in liquor sales, but revenue upBy hiking the prices, the government seems to have achieved the twin objective of bringing down alcohol consumption and increasing the reve...
- Kerala government tells hoteliers to shut bars within 15 daysThe decision, taken by a high-level meeting convened by Excise Minister K Babu, would mean that 312 functioning bars would be closed only a...
- Prohibition in Kerala: More to it than meets the eyeProhibition as a policy is high-minded idiocy. It promotes organised crime, illicit, unsafe hooch and corruption of the police.
- Kerala tourism set to face heavy loss after alcohol prohibitionThe ministry of tourism has proposed that 4 and 5-star hotels in the state need not necessarily have a bar that serves alcohol on the premi...
- Congress caught in a tangle over whether or not to renew permits of bars in Kerala closed before electionsLeaders of the ruling party are caught in a tangle over whether or not to renew the permits of 400-odd bars closed before the elections.
- Why government imposes tax on liquor despite being big businessLiquor is big business for governments. So naturally the tax rules are perverse. But there is method in this madness.
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