Bihar hooch tragedy: Liquor ban is the biggest corruption of Nitish Kumar's rule, says Tejashwi YadavTejashwi Yadav criticised Nitish Kumar's government for the Bihar hooch tragedy, alleging the liquor ban is massive corruption. He claims a...
19 Oct, 2024, 12.53 PM IST
Yet another Hooch tragedy strikes dry Bihar; 25 killedAt least 25 people have died after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Siwan and Saran districts. Many are critically ill in hospitals. Bi...
17 Oct, 2024, 11.04 PM IST
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar conducts high-level review after spurious liquor deaths in Siwan and SaranBihar CM Nitish Kumar reviewed after spurious liquor deaths in Siwan and Saran. He directed a thorough investigation. This incident has spa...
17 Oct, 2024, 02.38 PM IST
CM, kitchen cabinet pioneers of unprincipled politics: Tejashwi Yadav hits out at Bihar govt on hooch deathsFormer Bihar Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav criticizes Chief Minister Nitish Kumar following the death of 24 people due to spurious liquor in Siwa...
17 Oct, 2024, 01.59 PM IST
Bihar hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to 14 in MotihariPreviously in December last year, spurious liquor claimed the lives of over 50 people in Bihar's Chhapra and at least five people died afte...
15 Apr, 2023, 11.14 PM IST
Bihar hooch tragedy: NHRC to depute its probe team for on-spot inquiryThe Commission wants to know where and what kind of medical treatment is being provided to these victims. Most of them are from poor famili...
18 Dec, 2022, 03.29 PM IST
Hooch tragedy: Eight more die in two other Bihar districtsThe Nitish Kumar government banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar in April 2016. Nonetheless, despite the ongoing crackdown o...
17 Dec, 2022, 02.10 PM IST
Bihar hooch tragedy reaches SC; SIT soughtThe PIL filed by Aryavarta Mahasabha Foundation has sought formulation of an action plan at the national level to curb the manufacturing, t...
17 Dec, 2022, 12.06 AM IST
Hooch traders rounded up as Bihar illicit liquor tragedy toll risesThe DM said that action raids across the district have been conducted and 126 traders involved in selling locally brewed country liquor hav...
16 Dec, 2022, 02.21 PM IST
PIL in SC seeks SIT probe in Bihar hooch tragedyThe state shares its borders with Nepal, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh and none of these states practises prohibition, and ther...
16 Dec, 2022, 01.10 PM IST
Bihar hooch tragedy: Death toll reaches to 9The victims belong to villages under Maker and Bheldi police station in Saran district. The majority of the victims had purchased spurious ...
05 Aug, 2022, 11.13 AM IST
Bihar: Defeated panchayat poll candidate held for brutalising Dalit villagersA defeated panchayat poll candidate in Bihar has been arrested after being booked for brutalising some Dalit villagers, whom he blamed for ...
13 Dec, 2021, 04.15 PM IST
Ratting on the Angels’ Share of booze?A line of laboratory rats has been bred to prefer liquor over all other food and drink, to facilitate research into the role genetics and l...
06 May, 2017, 12.22 AM IST
Bihar's liquor ban results in over 60% reduction in road deaths due to drunk drivingUnpublished data accessed by TOI show that while 867 persons died in 2015 due to drunk driving in the state, fatalities reduced to 326 duri...
21 Apr, 2017, 12.12 PM IST
Prohibition in Bihar can’t stop hooch tragedy, 12 deadBut the state administration yet to confirm incident that comes at a time when chief minister Nitish Kumar has escalated his prohibition ca...
18 Aug, 2016, 12.45 AM IST
Bihar polls: Over Rs 17 crore cash, 1 lakh litre liquor seizedThe other seizures made by various agencies include 827.91 kg of ganja, 8.248 kg gold and 1.05 lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 98.96 lakh.
14 Oct, 2015, 09.48 PM IST
Bihar polls 2015: With arms, liquor, cash flowing in Election Commission has its task cut outAccording to the chief electoral officer of Bihar, hundreds of arms, explosives, cartridges and bombs were seized during routine checking a...
12 Oct, 2015, 06.00 AM IST