Follow Us on Google News Chennai, March 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu BJP President K. Annamalai on Thursday accused Chief Minister M.K. Stalin of attempting to divert public attention from the recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC), the state’s Excise Minister V. Senthil Balaji, and liquor-supplying companies. In a post … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Ranchi, March 12 (IANS) The Jharkhand government has amended the physical eligibility test criteria for excise constable recruitment, reducing the required race distance. Candidates will now have to complete a 1,600-metre race in six minutes instead of the earlier 10 km run. The change comes in the wake of public … Read more
Raipur, March 2 (IANS) In a cabinet meeting held on Sunday, the Chhattisgarh state cabinet approved the new excise policy for the fiscal year 2025-26, amendment to labour laws including Industrial Dispute Act 1947 — through an amendment Bill, and enforced the new industry policy 2024-2030. According to the new excise policy, 674 liquor shops … Read more
Chandigarh, Feb 27 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Thursday gave nod to the excise policy 2025-26 that aims to collect revenue of Rs 11,020 crore, an increase by Rs 874.05 crore over the current fiscal. A spokesperson for the Chief Minister’s office said against the target of Rs 10,145 … Read more
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) A discussion on the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) damning report on the previous AAP government’s excise policy began on Thursday in Delhi Assembly, with BJP MLAs hitting out at favouritism in the issue of liquor licences, opening of vends in residential areas and absence of lab test of liquor … Read more
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The tax revenue of West Bengal is projected to increase by 11.26 per cent by March 31, 2026, mainly propelled by only two of the 12 components which are State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) and state excise. As per the budget estimates for the financial year of 2025-26, the state’s … Read more
Kochi, Feb 3 (IANS) Amid the ongoing row over the sanction to a brewery and other alcohol manufacturing facilities in Kerala’s Palakkad, the state’s Leader of Opposition V.D.Satheesan on Monday termed Excise Minister M.B. Rajesh a liar. Responding to Rajesh’s statements on the sanction given to Oasis Commercial Pvt Ltd to set up an ethanol … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 30 (IANS) With the opposition Congress-led UDF taking on Kerala Excise Minister M.B.Rajesh for giving a brewery license to a controversial company involved in the Delhi excise case, Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Thursday wanted the Minister to explain the role of BRS leader K. Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister … Read more
