Thiruvananthapuram: There is bad news for tipplers in the state. They will have to pay more from August 1 as the Excise Board has permitted a six per cent increase in the prices of liquor and wine. The Kerala Bottlers Federation (KBF) had put pressure on the government to hike the prices following inflationary costs of raw materials, packing materials and labour cost. They had even threatened to stop supplying...
10:59 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Bangalore: "Jungle mein more nacha, kissi ne na dekha, hum jo thodi si peeke zara jhoome, hai re sab ne dekha!" (When the peacock danced in the jungle, nobody saw, but when I drank and danced a little, everybody saw) The film Madhumatis song aptly captured the capability of a drunk to attract attention through Mohammad Rafis voice and the comic antics of Johnny Walker (not the Scotch). Bangalore traffic...
12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu government has allowed five star hotels in Chennai and Tiruchirappally to serve liquor round the clock while extending the benefit to similar establishments in Madurai and Coimbatore provided they paid two times of the privilege fee. "Provided further that the hours of business for five star hotels in Chennai and Tiruchirappally, where the International Civil Airports are situated and the five star hotels in the cities of...
04:01 AM, Jul 06, 2012
The last episode of TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' focussed on the issue of alcoholism. Tonight at 10 PM CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, does it need an Aamir Khan to wake us up to the dangers of growing alcohol abuse?
01:02 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Ever since the coordinates of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) were aired on the Aamir Khan-hosted Satyamev Jayate, the AA office phones have been continuously ringing and their website has crashed because of an unprecedented spurt in traffic. But not many in India know about the entity and the help alcoholics or alcohol abusers can get there. AA, an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935, lists this as its...
10:24 AM, Jul 02, 2012
London: Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of alcohol, a study has revealed. According to tests carried out by the Paris-based National Institute of Consumption, more than half of leading colas contain traces of alcohol, Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. These include the brand leaders Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola, while it is mainly only cheap supermarket versions of the drink which are alcohol-free. French magazine '60 Million Consumers' published the...
12:24 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Hyderabad: The governments grand design of awarding liquor licences by draw of lots came into being Tuesday with officials dipping their hands into boxes containing a total of 68,284 applications and coming up with the winners of 5,703 vends across the state. Licences for 893 vends went abegging, having not received even one application. Excise officials said there will be a fresh draw of lots for these orphan vends in...
01:31 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Liquor syndicate leader B Balraj Goud, who was arrested by the ACB in April has reportedly stated in his confessional statement that horticulture minister Ramreddy Venkat Reddys close aides have nearly 200 liquor shops in the three districts of Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medak. He also told the ACB that former MLA D K Bharatsimha Reddy owns 150 liquor shops in the city and other places. Goud has reporteldy revealed...
10:55 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Lucknow: A man shot his father dead on Saturday evening for scolding him for his drinking habits in Bareilly, about 250 km from Lucknow, police said. According to police, Rajesh alias Raju, a resident of Meerganj in Bareilly, is a drunkard and he often had a fight with his father Rameshwar Dayal on this. Saturday around 4 pm, when Rajesh was again chided by his father, he left the house...
11:01 PM, Jun 09, 2012
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
