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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit US streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records showDEA agents in New Mexico allegedly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills onto streets between 2023-2025, prioritizing larger case...- Ladakh rings in new excise policy- wider choice in low alcohol content; hard liquor also at retail vendsThe administration’s decision comes in the wake of growing concerns raised by civil society, religious organizations, and medical experts r...
- Maharashtra: Five police officials suspended amid chaos over deaths linked to illicit liquor consumptionTen people have died from consuming illicit liquor in Pimpri-Chinchwad and Pune. Five police officials, including a Senior Police Inspector...
- OpenAI faces lawsuit in California court claiming chatbot gave advice that led to fatal overdoseParents have sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. They claim their son died from an accidental drug overdose. The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT co...
- No solution without dialogue: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti alleges "talks with Pakistan have been going on secretly"Mehbooba Mufti stresses the need to follow her father's vision for peace in Jammu and Kashmir. She claims secret talks with Pakistan are on...
- New policy will benefit premium brands, hurt local ones, distillers tell Karnataka CM SiddaramaiahLocal alcohol manufacturers in Karnataka have urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to review the proposed liquor tax system, saying it favours...
- Karnataka plans excise policy that aims to cut alcoholic beverages consumption by 8-9% over six yearsKarnataka has released a draft excise policy proposing to cut alcohol consumption by 8–9% over six years, while shifting towards lower-stre...
- From 'pure milk' to Scotch: Bihar’s secret language of liquorBihar's decade-old alcohol ban has not stopped drinking. Instead, it has fueled a secret delivery system. Coded words like 'pure milk' and ...
- BJP targets INDIA bloc over Kallakurchi tragedy that claimed 56 lives, calls it 'murder'BJP MP Sambit Patra hit out at the INDIA bloc and the Congress and alleged that they were silent on the hooch tragedy in Kallakurchi, Tamil...
- Tamil Nadu: 38 dead, 100 hospitalised after consuming illicit liquor38 people died in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu after consuming spurious liquor laced with methanol. Chief minister Stalin announced a one-man c...
- Need policy cocktail for alcohol controlThere is no silver bullet to minimising harm from alcohol. Multidimensional causality leading to growing demand requires a portfolio of mea...
- Over Rs 58,000 crore in taxes lost due to illicit trade in FMCG, mobile, tobacco, alcohol industry: Ficci reportThe FMCG industry alone accounted for 75% of the total illicit value of goods in five key industries. Tobacco products and alcoholic bevera...
- Manipur cabinet gives nod to partially lift liquor prohibitionThe alcohol prohibition will be lifted from all the district headquarters including Imphal city, tourist destinations, hotels with at least...
- View: Taxation alone can’t be the instrument to reduce alcohol consumption & regulate safe drinkingWithin 'sin goods', there are different product categories with different nutrition levels and health impacts. Therefore, treating all of t...
- Delhi may open booze shops due to excise hitThe Delhi government is exploring the possibility of opening liquor shops in the city during the lockdown. The government has asked the exc...
- Cigarette, tobacco smuggling incidents jump 136% in 2yrs: ReportMaximum revenue loss to the exchequer came from illicit trade of tobacco products, mobile phones, alcoholic beverages, it said.
- Illicit trade on rise in India, says Ficci-KPMG reportThe seizure value from misuse of end use was at Rs 770 crore and that from other means was at Rs 2,780 crore, seeing a rise of 191 per cent...
- United Spirits says prohibition give rise to other social ills"A huge body of evidence - both globally and in India - shows that prohibition is not an effective tool to address alcohol misuse."
- Manufacturing sector losses increased 44 per cent due to illicit trade: StudyMoreover, the government tax (direct and indirect) losses, increased by almost 50 per cent to Rs 39,239 crore in 2014 from Rs 26,190 crore ...
- Excise duty on alcohol a recipe for hooch deathsThe higher the level of excise duty, the higher the gain from evasion, the greater the incentive to evade, the greater the bribes to be pai...
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