India's dry day custom impacts the hospitality sector. Consumers stock up, reducing the effect on the liquor industry. Business faces dislo...

The Balearic Islands enact a ban on alcohol sales from 9.30pm to 8am in a bid to combat excessive drinking and rowdiness in tourist hotspot...

The way to minimise liquor-related tragedies is not prohibiting its consumption as in Gujarat and Bihar, but by bringing alcohol consumptio...

Kumar, who chaired a meeting to review the functioning of department for prohibition and excise, underscored the role of the police in ensu...

“Import policy of air conditioners with refrigerants…is amended from ‘free’ to ‘prohibited’,” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGF...

"Alcohol based hand sanitizers exported in containers with dispenser pump…are prohibited for export,” DGFT said in a notification. The gove...

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...

On March 24, India had prohibited the exports of hand sanitisers, soaps, washing and cleaning preparations, disinfectants and medicaments. ...

A study by the Development Management Institute (DMI), Patna showed a 17.5% increase in the purchase of milk products in 2016-17 compared w...

"A huge body of evidence - both globally and in India - shows that prohibition is not an effective tool to address alcohol misuse."

Elaborating on the impact of the step, she said: "USL had four bottling facilities namely in Hatidah, Salson and Ara and a sizable salesfor...

The order, coming just two days before the new Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act is set to take effect, will not have any bearing on the ong...

Bihar CM had also lamented on the lack of concrete cooperation from the neighbouring states despite writing to their CMs to make the total ...

The Nitish Kumar government today unveiled its strategy to enforce prohibition of alcohol in Bihar in phases as part of which there would b...

After 10 years in power he may not have quite achieved any of those goals, but he is set to catch up with the two states in another: a ban ...

Chandrapur will be the third district in the state after neighbouring Wardha and Gadchiroli, also in east Maharashtra, where liquor prohibi...

WHO argued that measures such as prohibition led to excessive restrictions creating risks to consumers, constraining commercial and consume...