IF YOU GO to a bar (or, better, when you can go back to a bar) and order a glass of arrack, you will have no real idea of what is in your drink. I don’t mean because the bar might be refilling ...

While the state government is firm on implementing a complete ban on liquor, the prohibition and excise officials are facing a tough challenge trying to rein in arrack production. Recent raids by the ...

Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...

SRIKAKULAM: In the wake of increased enforcement, the manufacturers of illicitly distilled arrack (ID Arrack) have now changed their strategy and taken up a new route. They are now transporting the ...

Bangalore: Karnataka’s 10-month-old ban on arrack, or country liquor, has been at the centre of a liquor tragedy that has so far claimed 127 lives in and around the state’s capital, with political ...

Tamil Nadu news: A patient at a hospital in Tamil Nadu undergoing treatment after consumption of illicit arrack in Kallakurichi distict on Wednesday, June 19.(PTI) Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy: ...