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The rush for prohibition and the Supreme Court’s decision to ban liquor sales within 500 metres from highways have hurt companies. IMAGE: At around 65,000 licensed liquor shops across the country, India’s outlet penetration for spirits per 1,000 people is low, sector experts say. Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters. India’s move to be austere when it comes to its drinking habits seems to be driving liquor companies up a wall. After seeing its slowest growth in over a decade in ...

Almost 81 lakh Indians quit tobacco in the last seven years, showcasing the impact of anti-tobacco campaigns. The campaigns, however, had only a limited reach among the people from a poor socio-economic background as khaini (smokeless tobacco) and bidi ...

Switzerland: OPEC nations that deliver some of the lowest cost production will be relatively insulated from an early peak in oil demand caused by any faster-than-expected roll-out of electric vehicles, Glencore's chairman said on Monday. Members of the ...

Punit Goenka led Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) felt the impact of demonetisation as its advertising revenue saw slowdown in growth. The entertainment network saw domestic advertising revenue grow at 8.1 per cent in Q4FY17 (quarter ended March ...

The number of challans being issued by the traffic police under its 'Zero tolerance policy' have doubled this year. The move, besides, bringing down traffic violations has also resulted in a reduction of accidents during the period between January and April ...

WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had received at least a thousand surveillance requests from the U.S. government that sought user content for foreign intelligence purposes during the first half of 2016. The amount, shared in Microsoft's ...

Even after three decades, Mandi proves its lasting relevance and powerful impact on cinephile memory by inviting comparisons to Vidya Balan’s Begum Jaan.  Shyam Benegal’s mesmeric Mandi chronicles life through a woman running a brothel house in the crammed backstreets of Hyderabad. As is the nature of a marketplace, the establishment is marked by rumpus and range but Benegal views the matriarch’s lifestyle and choices with endless fascination and empathy.

Helped by a double digit growth in excise and service tax revenues, the Centre's net tax collection for 2016-17 rose 18% to Rs 17.10 lakh crore, which is a six-year high. The Ministry of Finance said the total tax receipts for 2016-17 were higher than the ...

The number of Kenyans needing emergency food aid has doubled in the past three months to three million, the Red Cross said today, as the impact of a devastating drought worsens.