Minimum Drinking Age

Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Sourabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday said that if the BJP made the minimum age of buying liquor 25 years in party-ruled states, then the AAP would increase it to 30 years in Delhi.

The Delhi government requested the High Court on Wednesday to dismiss the plea seeking to minimise the legal age of drinking -- currently 25 years -- in the national capital.

High school binge drinking has declined in recent decades in part because dozens of states, as well as the District of Columbia, raised the minimum legal drinking age to 21 in the 1980s, said Katherine Keyes, an epidemiologist at Columbia University and an expert on alcohol consumption.

The Delhi High Court today sought response from the AAP government on a PIL seeking quashing of a provision in the Delhi Excise Act which prescribes 25 years as the minimum legal age for buying and drinking alcohol.

The Left government in Kerala has moved to drastically dilute its predecessor's ban on alcohol by allowing hotels that are three-stars or fancier to sell alcohol. While the ban has been loosened, the minimum drinking age has been raised from 21 to 23.

Malaysia plans to raise the minimum age for alcohol consumption from 18 to 21, it said in a filing to the World Trade Organization today.

Ruling Congress in Uttarakhand has demanded that the minimum age for alcohol consumption in the state be raised from 18 to 21 years.

In its latest initiative to encourage the youth to lead a healthy lifestyle, New York has raised the minimum age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. This encompasses all possible tobacco products including e-cigarettes. The law was signed on November 19...

Amitabh Bachchan has described Maharashtra government's decision to increase the minimum age for drinking from 21 to 25 years, as "strange".

He may be almost 70 years old but Amitabh Bachchan is backing Mumbai's youngsters against the Maharashtra government's sudden decision that makes it illegal for anyone below 25 years of age to drink or purchase alcohol.The permissible age for drinking hard liquor is now up by four years in the maximum city, from 21 to 25. At the age of 21, only bee...

Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Sourabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday said that if the BJP made the minimum age of buying liquor 25 years in party-ruled states, then the AAP would increase it to 30 years in Delhi.

The Delhi government requested the High Court on Wednesday to dismiss the plea seeking to minimise the legal age of drinking -- currently 25 years -- in the national capital.

High school binge drinking has declined in recent decades in part because dozens of states, as well as the District of Columbia, raised the minimum legal drinking age to 21 in the 1980s, said Katherine Keyes, an epidemiologist at Columbia University and an expert on alcohol consumption.

The Delhi High Court today sought response from the AAP government on a PIL seeking quashing of a provision in the Delhi Excise Act which prescribes 25 years as the minimum legal age for buying and drinking alcohol.

The Left government in Kerala has moved to drastically dilute its predecessor's ban on alcohol by allowing hotels that are three-stars or fancier to sell alcohol. While the ban has been loosened, the minimum drinking age has been raised from 21 to 23.

Malaysia plans to raise the minimum age for alcohol consumption from 18 to 21, it said in a filing to the World Trade Organization today.

Ruling Congress in Uttarakhand has demanded that the minimum age for alcohol consumption in the state be raised from 18 to 21 years.

In its latest initiative to encourage the youth to lead a healthy lifestyle, New York has raised the minimum age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. This encompasses all possible tobacco products including e-cigarettes. The law was signed on November 19...

Amitabh Bachchan has described Maharashtra government's decision to increase the minimum age for drinking from 21 to 25 years, as "strange".

He may be almost 70 years old but Amitabh Bachchan is backing Mumbai's youngsters against the Maharashtra government's sudden decision that makes it illegal for anyone below 25 years of age to drink or purchase alcohol.The permissible age for drinking hard liquor is now up by four years in the maximum city, from 21 to 25. At the age of 21, only bee...