The sound of the ceremonial beating of drums during a death filled the streets. One street alone was expecting three bodies to arrive on Fr...

Tamil Nadu Illicit Liquor Case: At least 36 people lost their lives and nearly 70 others were hospitalized in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi dis...

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

Intervening, Jayalalithaa said in August 1971, Karunanidhi lifted prohibition and shops vending IMFL, arrack and toddy were opened across t...

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

In Nov '03, the then CM Jayalalithaa decided that the state would retail alcohol through TASMAC, after which over 7,300 private shops wer t...

Kerala’s decision to drastically reduce availability of liquor, has given rise to parallel market for its substitutes ranging from illicit ...

Kerala, which has India’s highest per capita consumption of alcohol, has announced a phased prohibition policy that will see it going booze...

The state, with almost half of its revenues coming from booming alcohol sales, is confronted by a question : is booze too freely available?

If festivals are about letting one’s hair down and high spirits, Kerala takes it seriously.

Karnataka will be free from arrack from tomorrow with the JD(S)-BJP government deciding to ban the brew statewide.

Apprehending that ban on arrack sale and lottery might lead to rise in illicit liquor trade and illegal gambling, Karnataka Chief Minister ...

Drastic slashing of excise duty per bulk litre from Rs 20 to Rs 2 to check the menace of sale of non-duty paid or seconds brew by Karnataka...