Radico Khaitan MD Abhishek Khaitan urged more states to follow Uttar Pradesh’s excise model with composite shop licenses, enabling consumer...

The YSR Congress Party is launching a statewide agitation against spurious liquor in Andhra Pradesh, alleging corruption and the involvemen...

Liquor sales surged in October fueled by festive occasions and gifting trends, with states like West Bengal, Delhi, and Telangana reporting...

Andhra Pradesh's new liquor policy, set to begin on October 1, aims to reverse a five-year sales decline by allowing private players in ret...

Despite government’s limited support and society’s taboos, India’s Rs 1,900-crore wine market is set to grow rapidly as more entrepreneurs ...

Narasimham joined the RBI as a research officer and then went on to serve the Indian government. He was an additional secretary at the Depa...

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

TDP national president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu condemned the arrests and termed it as yet another instance of chief m...

After Punjab mooted the proposal for home delivery of alcohol and West Bengal and Chhattisgarh started implementing it, many states are exp...

Three acquisitions – Charosa, Myra & Four Seasons – in as many months makes Ravi Viswanathan’s Grover Zampa the second-largest Indian winem...

The World Health Organisation finds that the average Indian drinks 4.3 litres of alcohol a year.

Kerala is embracing drinks with low alcohol content like never before. This change, given Kerala’s long drinking habits, is epochal.

India is surely living up in since the last couple of years. Increased alcohol consumption is the biggest indicator of this. No prizes for ...

Who wouldn’t want to replace polluting energy with clean, renewable energy? Surprisingly, some wouldn’t. Because, sometimes they end up pay...

The food ministry is set to oppose the mandatory 5% ethanol blending programme, fearing diversion of foodgrain for manufacture of ethanol.

Scrapping the licensing requirement would boost manufacture of beer, wine, whisky, rum, brandy and other alcoholic beverages.

Come 2007, Andhra Pradesh could turn wine country. Large grape farmers are planning to take to wine-grape cultivation encouraged by greater...