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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: alcohol

Once had with anti-malaria tonic, gin is now a stylish Indian drink with a ‘huge tiny’ market

New brands set to launch this month join a growing list of Indian craft gins that have changed the liquor’s image from stodgy to trendy.

Amazon & BigBasket could soon be home delivering alcohol in West Bengal

A report says the West Bengal State Beverages Corp issued a notice Friday stating that Amazon was eligible to register with authorities for liquor delivery.

After Jharkhand, Zomato & Swiggy start home delivery of alcohol in Odisha

Users will be required to upload a valid ID proof to be eligible for ordering which would later be verified by the delivery partner at the time of handing over the order.

India has no national alcohol revenue database. Covid crisis has shown why it is necessary

Each state taxes alcohol differently, but counts on it for a significant amount of revenue. The lack of transparency is a roadblock for policy researchers.

Ready-to-drink cocktails have turned living rooms into bars in lockdown

With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon, and a near-guarantee of a second wave of Covid-19 infections, people have been drinking more at home.

Elephants are lightweights and can get drunk on rotten fruit

Anecdotes about wild animals seemingly getting drunk after eating rotting fruit are widespread. There may be some truth to it after all.

After 40 days of lockdown, Indians just wanted alcohol not ‘Gujarat Model’

While it's easy to forget the coronavirus crisis in high spirits, many states realised that opening the shops was not very practical to keep a pandemic at bay.

Rajat Sharma exposes hospital horrors, Anjana Om Kashyap on Covid-19’s ‘asli leher’

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Zomato wants to start home delivery of liquor in ‘areas relatively less affected by Covid’

According to a Reuters report, Zomato's CEO Mohit Gupta has written to industry body ISWAI, suggesting the idea in a business proposal.

Pratap Mehta on ‘intelligent drinking’ & Arvind Subramanian on 3 watersheds of Covid-19

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Mohandas Pai, Ela R. Bhatt, G Chandrashekhar and more.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

How Op Mahadev unfolded: A day-by-day account of how the net closed in on Pahalgam terrorists

New Delhi: The killing of the three LeT terrorists behind the Pahalgam massacre was the culmination of an operation that started immediately after the...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.