Bihar's alcohol ban in 2016 prevented 24 lakh cases of daily and weekly consumption, and 21 lakh cases of intimate partner violence, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional......
Four times more liquor has been seized in the 2024 election than during the 2019 polls. Kindly note the images have only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Adnan......
The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested Tamil Nadu electricity, prohibition and excise minister V Senthil Balaji under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, official sources said,......
The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Monday put at 38 the number of people who died in the Saran hooch tragedy, asserting that higher death figures quoted by various quarters were "misleading".......
'As he goes down, he will almost certainly drag a few others down with him.''Once the mutual mudslinging has died down, collateral damage will probably include more bankers than politicians, given......
Liquor sales will obviously be hit. So, will real estate prices at what used to be prime locations, close to major thoroughfares. Food and snack sales close to highways will also, in all......
Incentives for industries have been rolled back and teachers have gone without salary for months as the state grapples with the after-effects of the ban While speaking at a conference in Patna in......
Several states that imposed prohibition in the past lifted it once revenue loss began to pinch Nitish Kumar’s first decision after taking over as the new chief minister, to impose an......
Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......