Hyderabad: Hyderabadis may be facing water woes but a good number of them, particularly youngsters with pocketful of money, are guzzling beer like theres no tomorrow. Beer sales, say wine dealers, are shooting up at the same pace as the mercury, creating new records. The dealers hold individual records, so to speak but statistics furnished by the Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Ltd (APBCL) give a good overall picture. According to...
12:56 PM, May 21, 2012
London: Women in highflying jobs drink twice as much than those in manual jobs, according to UK's official statistics, reflecting a startling "cocktail and business card culture" which is on the rise. Figures from the Office of National Statistics in the UK showed that women in top positions, such as managers in large companies, drink a bottle of wine a week on average, around 11.2 units, compared with 6.2 units...
03:36 AM, May 21, 2012
London: A Muslim cab driver in the United Kingdom has been fired from his job after he evicted a family from his taxi for carrying a bottle of wine. The driver has been sacked as he threw out a family carrying an unopened bottle of wine, of which he said, "it's against my religion." Adrian Cartwright, 46, had hired the taxi to take his family out for dinner at an...
09:40 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Panaji: Liquor prices in Goa, which is known for low-cost booze, are set to go up marginally from April 2012, owing to a substantial rise in warehousing rates as proposed in the state budget. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) on Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) and foreign liquor, including beer, from existing 20 per cent to 22 per cent, which will translate into an increase...
03:24 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: In a twisted irony, the Maharashtra state's stringent de-addiction policy sprang brazenly back in its face when 14 Navi Mumbai policemen were caught smuggling 500 bottles of alcohol from Goa. The cops, including an assistant inspector and two assistant sub-inspectors, have been placed under suspension pending further inquiry. The incident happened on Wednesday night when the police team, on deputation with the Reserve Bank of India, were returning from...
03:10 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Mumbai: In a twisted irony, the Maharashtra state's stringent de-addiction policy sprang brazenly back in its face when 14 Navi Mumbai policemen were caught smuggling 500 bottles of alcohol from Goa. The cops, including an assistant inspector and two assistant sub-inspectors, have been placed under suspension pending further inquiry. The incident happened on Wednesday night when the police team, on deputation with the Reserve Bank of India, were returning from...
12:59 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Mumbai: Just last week, national carrier Air India was forced to suspend one of its senior-most commanders for reporting drunk to duty after pressure from the Civil Aviation Ministry. Now, the struggling airline is being pulled up again for not conducting breathalyser tests to detect alcohol on its crew at foreign airports. RTI data shows the airline has not been carrying out mandatory pre-flight medical checks at foreign airports. In...
08:44 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: Around 800 people were on Thursday challaned for driving under the influence of alcohol, during a special drive on the occasion of Holi. Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg said no major accident was reported during the day. "A large number of violations were detected including 777 drunken driving cases till 5 pm," he said. "I have been in Delhi for nearly 25 years and found overall...
08:56 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Lucknow: Other than colour, Holi in this part of the country is time for bacchus lovers to let their hair down. But as other places have moved to beer and other forms of alcohol like wine, vodka and Scotch, the elder generation in Lucknow is still hooked to the traditional thandai - a concoction of chilled milk, sugar syrup, almonds, cashewnuts, rose petals, fennel seeds, pepper and cardamom. The old...
09:19 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Bangalore: As India's second largest producer of grapes after Maharashtra, Karnataka is pulling out all the stops to become a preferred destination for setting up wineries to export a variety of wines to global markets. "Though laggards in seizing the opportunity earlier, we are making up for the lost time by aggressively promoting grape cultivation and setting up wineries to cash in on the steady growing consumption of wine the...
11:35 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Bangalore: As India's second largest producer of grapes after Maharashtra, Karnataka is pulling out all the stops to become a preferred destination for setting up wineries to export a variety of wines to global markets. "Though laggards in seizing the opportunity earlier, we are making up for the lost time by aggressively promoting grape cultivation and setting up wineries to cash in on the steady growing consumption of wine the...
04:04 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Jodhpur: A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said Friday. Sanyam Jain, a resident of Vishala village near Sanchore in Jalore district, was Thursday admitted to the intensive care unit of Ummed Hospital in Jodhpur, some 400 km from state capital Jaipur. He...
03:40 PM, Feb 24, 2012
From a man in Kashmir who fought for opening a dispensary in his village to a woman who fought for the full payment of her wages under the NREGA scheme, 2011 saw citizens taking up the nation's corrupt by its jugular and fighting for their rights. ...
08:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Washington: Cannot resist your urge to tweet or check emails? Don't get surprised, as a new study has found that checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. US researchers who carried out an experiment to test the will power of 205 people, aged 18 to 85, in the German city of Wurtzburg found that most of them were more likely to give in to urge...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has put the compensation for the families of the hooch tragedy victims on hold for eight weeks. This came after a PIL was filed challenging the compensation announced by the state government for the victims. The PIL challenged the rationale behind the payment of the compensation. The West Bengal government had announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the victims' families. More than 170...
05:10 PM, Feb 06, 2012
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