Maharashtra's Water Resources Department has amended a five-year-old policy, now permitting alcohol service and consumption at premises nea...

Mumbai Dry Days: The Election Commission of India has banned alcohol sales in Mumbai and other Maharashtra cities for four days, including ...

A "dry day" is when the sale and consumption of alcohol are legally restricted, common in many countries like India, to honor religious or ...

Shares of cigarette companies are already under pressure since the announcement of the panel on cigarette taxes. For ITC, which had only re...

The UP government is expecting revenue of ₹36,000 crore in the ongoing fiscal 2021-22, on the back of the liberalised excise policy approve...

On Monday as soon as Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a six-day lockdown from 10 PM on Monday till 5 AM the next Monday to cu...

Impressario Handmade Restaurants managing director Riyaaz Amlani, owner of Social, Smoke House Deli and Mocha said while the curfew guideli...

"Only five shops in one lane will be allowed to operate during the entire day. But this particular restriction is not applicable to the sho...

With the lockdown extended till May 17, there are 14 districts which are red zones, including Greater Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Palghar a...

During elections, some states also strictly restrict the amount of liquor one can buy.

The government was earlier skeptical about allowing liquor on beaches as part of the policy, but it finally agreed to it with permission fr...

Jayalalithaa promised to implement prohibition in a phased manner if her party was given a second term, while the DMK declared total prohib...

Shares of liquor making companies were battered on Thursday after Nitish Kumar said he was fulfilling his poll promise of banning alcohol i...

Earlier this week, a division bench of the Kerala High Court had upheld the state government's liquor policy, allowing only bars in five-st...

The rules banning the advertising of liquor products predate the computer age. Social media is, naturally enough, a grey area.

If a proposal submitted by the excise department is accepted, well over 3,000 bars and permit rooms in the Mumbai-Thane belt will be allowe...

Liquor sales at hotels and restaurants reversed out a decline by 12-15% as consumer sentiment improved over last year, which faced the twin...