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Food delivery platform Swiggy started on Thursday online processing and home delivery of alcohol in West Bengal after obtaining approvals from the state government. The company is offering the service in Kolkata and Siliguri, days after first launching delivery in Jharkhand and Odisha. In a statement, the company said it prioritises safe delivery and ensuring all guidelines are maintained including social distancing. Customers need to complete a one-time instant age verification by uploading a picture of government approved ID and a selfie for authentification. They can access the category under "Wine Shops" by updating their Swiggy app. Read More

India had 23,077 coronavirus cases and 718 deaths from the disease till Friday noon. Maharashtra's number of patients has crossed 6,400. Madhya Pradesh has almost 1,700 infected cases, of which 1,000 are from Indore. Telangana has shown signs of recovery. Rajasthan is getting worse with more doctors and police officers getting infected. Authorities are trying hard to provide adequate and better facilities to the people. Hooch selling on the rise Amid lockdown in the country, a lot of things are not available to people. Among them, one is liquor. Taking advantage of the situation, traffickers have started selling hooch (illicit alcohol), reported Dainik Bhaskar. Villages and small towns like Jind and Sirsa, which are located near the banks of Yamuna, have become the hub of hooch manufacturing. Houses and villas have started manufacturing hooch. They are neither experts in brewing alcohol, nor do they keep up with the parameters of manufacturing alcohol. Two people have di...

The Goa government has decided to charge fines between Rs 2,000 and Rs 10,000 from people for drinking and cooking in the open, state Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said Thursday. The Tourist Trade Act will be amended suitably during the Goa Assembly session beginning on January 29 for this purpose, he informed. "People found creating nuisance like drinking in public or cooking in the open will be fined up to Rs 10,000. While an individual will be fined Rs 2,000, a group indulging in such an offence will be charged Rs 10,000," Ajgaonkar told reporters. In case the fine is not paid, the offender can face imprisonment of up to three months, he added. Business Standard

The rising affluence of India’s middle class will drive growth of as much as 10 per cent a year in the $33 billion spirits market, according to one of the nation’s oldest distillers. After three years of stagnation when the industry faced sales restrictions, Indians are drinking more and spending on premium alcohol, said Abhishek Khaitan, the managing director of Radico Khaitan Ltd., a market leader in vodka with its Magic Moments brand. The trend will likely continue as urban dual-income families in the nation of 1.3 billion follow peers in the U.S. and Singapore when it comes to eating and drinking out, he said. India’s spirit sector -- which includes whiskey, brandy, rum and vodka -- is estimated to expand 25 per cent to Rs 2.92 trillion ($41 billion) by 2022, according to Euromonitor International. The country is among the world’s most attractive alcohol markets and should increase its share of global consumption from about 2 per cent given high single-digit to low-t...

You're enjoying beer , cocktails with friends, and before you know it, night turns into day, and you wake up with a massive hangover You're not alone. According to a study conducted at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, about 76 per cent of adults experience some type of hangover after a drinking session . The findings are published in the journal Addiction. Hangover symptoms include fatigue, dehydration, a headache or muscle aches, dizziness, shakiness, rapid heartbeat. "Just in the previous decade, we are seeing more sophisticated clinical and preclinical research advance our understanding of all that is involved in a hangover," said Laura Veach, a researcher. "Briefly, we have indications that the immune system and an inflammation response are involved when that hangover alarm goes out, from the central nervous system, when the blood alcohol concentration finally gets to zero. The absence of alcohol in the body at that point is often where the...

In a shocking revelation, a recent study has found that alcohol is associated with nearly one in 10 deaths in people aged 15-49 years old. Health News : In a shocking revelation, a recent study has found that alcohol is associated with nearly one in 10 deaths in people aged 15-49 years old. Overall, according to the research that estimates levels of alcohol use and health effects in 195 countries between 1990 to 2016, 2.8 million deaths occur each year worldwide. Based on their analysis, the authors suggest that there is no safe level of alcohol as any health benefits of alcohol are outweighed by its adverse effects on other aspects of health, particularly cancers. According to lead author, Dr Max Griswold of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, USA, "Previous studies have found a protective effect of alcohol on some conditions, but we found that the combined health risks associated with alcohol increase with any amou...