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Thailand has seen a sharp increase in biofuel consumption following the government's aggressive excise tax cuts on blended fuels, with the policy rapidly changing motorists' fuel-purchasing behaviour and providing support for the country's agricultural sector, says Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
The circular comes on the heels of the government shifting Sreeram Samabasiva Rao from the Excise Commissioner’s post in the wake of the political row over the department’s “hasty” reclassification of a few bars and beer parlours as bars and the almost “instantaneous” approval for private players to open lounge bars at CIAL
Report names Joint Excise Commissioner S. Vinod and Deputy Commissioner Ajay and recommends their immediate removal from field postings and a Vigilance probe against them. It also mentions that Excise Minister M. Liju has a close acquaintance with a bar in Kayamkulam, although there are no details about what kind of relationship the Minister was maintaining
Move comes a few days after Excise Minister M. Liju publicly indicated his disapproval on granting of bar licence to a lounge at Kochi airport despite government's objection to a similar application
Action will be taken if it is found that illegal activities were taking place in the cover of bar licence, says Excise Minister
The contentious granting of licences, which reportedly angered the UDF’s “prohibitionist base” comprising Christian and Muslim social organisations, occurred as the Cabinet formulated the State’s liquor policy for the current fiscal year
Loopholes in the previous LDF government’s 2017 order, enabling Deputy Commissioners to approve applications for upgrading beer and wine parlours to bars, were misused by some excise officers, says M. Liju
60,000 cases detected under Operation Thunder; government considering steps to strengthen Excise force and set up State Narcotics Control Bureau
Minister M. Liju warns suspension of licences for serving liquor to underage customers; directive comes in the wake of a drunk-driving road accident at Nedumbassery that claimed three lives
Justice N. Ramesh poses the question after expressing shock over a 19-year-old college student having consumed liquor at a bar attached to a hotel reportedly run by the college management
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