D’YAVOL Vortex has also been awarded gold medals at Scotch Whisky Masters 2025, New York World Spirits Competition 2024, and the International Wine & Spirits Awards 2024.
While Indian brands are giving foreign ones competition, especially in premium whisky segment, they are held back by 'discriminatory' taxes & bias towards foreign players, say industry insiders.
Trend could be partly due to people starting to drink at home more during pandemic & using the money saved to buy more expensive beverages, says report by Antique Stock Broking.
Although the reason for delay wasn't clear, previous sticking points have included a steep import duty on British whiskey and India's demand for more visas for students and businesses.
The idea behind clubs like All Things Nice & Dram Club was the realisation that whisky-obsessed India 'knows little about the spirit — or any other alcohol for that matter'.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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