Parents have sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. They claim their son died from an accidental drug overdose. The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT co...

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...

Local alcohol manufacturers in Karnataka have urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to review the proposed liquor tax system, saying it favours...

Karnataka has released a draft excise policy proposing to cut alcohol consumption by 8–9% over six years, while shifting towards lower-stre...

Bihar's decade-old alcohol ban has not stopped drinking. Instead, it has fueled a secret delivery system. Coded words like 'pure milk' and ...

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...

38 people died in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu after consuming spurious liquor laced with methanol. Chief minister Stalin announced a one-man c...

There is no silver bullet to minimising harm from alcohol. Multidimensional causality leading to growing demand requires a portfolio of mea...

The FMCG industry alone accounted for 75% of the total illicit value of goods in five key industries. Tobacco products and alcoholic bevera...

The alcohol prohibition will be lifted from all the district headquarters including Imphal city, tourist destinations, hotels with at least...

Within 'sin goods', there are different product categories with different nutrition levels and health impacts. Therefore, treating all of t...

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

Maximum revenue loss to the exchequer came from illicit trade of tobacco products, mobile phones, alcoholic beverages, it said.

The 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...

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

Moreover, 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 ...

The 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...