With rising costs putting hard liquor beyond their reach, many drinkers are turning in large numbers to kasippu, brewed by about 5,000 producers nationwide and estimated to comprise about 60 per cent ...

Sri Lanka Police have escalated its operations to crackdown production and sale of illicit spirits in the country, in the backdrop of Excise revenue generated from licensed liquor sales plunging, as ...

Something that has existed over, at least, the past half century in Sri Lanka is the problem of “kasippu,” which has become steadily worse throughout rural and urban areas of the country until it has ...

Colombo, March 11 (Daily Mirror) - In a bid to attract over 40% of the country’s illicit liquor drinkers into a much safer drinking culture the Department of Excise is mulling to introduce a new ...