Brandy, a spirit deeply entrenched in South India's culture and cinema, is now undergoing a national makeover. Despite being India's second...

Bengaluru has a new excise duty on alcohol-in-beverage. Prices are now set by producers. The government cut liquor price slabs to make drin...

Karnataka becomes India's first state to adopt an Alcohol-in-Beverage excise duty structure. This new policy, effective May 11, deregulates...

India's liquor sales saw a rebound in the year ended March, with spirits volume growing 4% and beer volumes also rising 4%. This recovery w...

As far as India is concerned, the biggest pain point from the US-Iran war in the Gulf region has been the spike in the prices of not only o...

Supply chain disruptions caused by the US-Israel-Iran conflict have a second-order impact on several industries. The liquor sector is no ex...

Alcoholic beverage manufacturers in Bengaluru are seeking a review of proposed excise duty rules, fearing a European model's negative impac...

Karnataka is poised for a significant policy shift in its liquor sector, moving towards deregulation. This move is expected to benefit majo...

Shares of liquor makers like United Spirits, United Breweries, and Tilaknagar Industries rose sharply after Karnataka Budget 2026 proposed ...

Karnataka is on track to meet its ₹40,000 crore excise revenue target for 2025–26 despite a fall in liquor consumption after repeated tax h...

The Karnataka state government has dismissed the recent fall in liquor sales as a normal occurrence and not indicative of a decrease in dem...

The Unlock 3.0 guidelines issued late last month kept the ban on the operations of bars unchanged, but didn’t make any mention of serving a...

The CM has proposed an additional excise duty of 4% on liquor in his maiden Budget.

The note from the CMO followed appeals from distillers and brewers in Karnataka, according to which, the ban would disrupt their supply com...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, who is also in charge of planning the State’s finances, on Wednesday proposed in his Budget for 2017-18 abolishi...

Earlier, excise and commercial taxes departments imposed separate levies, but the liquor industry demanded that there be a combined levy.

Legitimate liquor sales in election-bound Karnataka have hit a dry patch during what is normally a bountiful time of the year for the trade.