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BOOTLEGGING IN BIHAR
How Patna pegs people to become Darudevils, making safe drinking prohibitionaryBihar's strict prohibition has created a black market for alcohol. Whisky prices have quadrupled, with quality control a major concern. The...- Bihar swings NDA’s way — Nitish–Modi combo pushes alliance towards 200-paarBihar's electorate has chosen continuity, re-electing Nitish Kumar and the NDA to power. The ruling alliance secured a sweeping mandate, dr...
- J&K plans to ban liquor sale but revenues surges to Rs 2,000 cr in this fiscal yearLiquor sales in Jammu and Kashmir are rising even as political parties intensify demands for prohibition. The government projects a 4% incr...
- Women welfare schemes a big factor in NDA winsThe BJP-led alliance's victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections was fueled in part by strong support from women from economically disa...
- Bootlegging continues in Bihar: 3 dead, several ill after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Siwan; 10 heldAs per the information, the deceased-- Janak Bean alias Janak Prasad and Naresh Bean of the Bala village in Siwan's Nabiganj-- complained o...
- Bihar minister's resignation is another case of Nitish Kumar’s dipping graph on anti-graft fightContrary to popular perception - especially outside Bihar - that Nitish Kumar has a stellar record in terms of controlling corruption and e...
- Bihar elections: The alphabet soup in BiharElections in Bihar are incomplete without strongmen. Despite JD(U)’s claims of good governance and development, there seems to be no dearth...
- Nearly one-fifth of JD(U)'s candidates in Bihar elections are womenThe party has clinched a seat-sharing deal with the BJP, under which it got 122 constituencies in the 243-strong assembly. Former Chief Min...
- View: YS Jagan Reddy has won a major battle, but the war lies aheadThe electoral win of Mr Reddy in Andhra Pradesh would have been far more propitious for himself, and his state, had Narendra Modi not scrip...
- Bihar set for spirited fight 3 years after booze banThese will be the first general elections after Bihar was declared a dry state in April 2016.
- Here's why booze bans don't workTaxes from alcohol sales roughly form a quarter of state revenues. If this stream suddenly stops, states have to compulsorily cut some impo...
- 14 Punjabis among 15 Indians saved from gallows in UAEPresenting them before the media here, Dubai-based S P Singh Oberoi said Punjabi youths who go to UAE should learn to not fall into the tra...
- Liquor trade raises a toast in Uttar PradeshKalpana Awasthi has spearheaded a new policy to open up liquor business through a tender process that allowed more than three dozen wholesa...
- Dry spell for liquor stocks in ban seasonThe SC highway liquor ban that came into effect on April 1 was a hammer blow and now Madhya Pradesh plans to impose prohibition in a phased...
- Indian battle with booze isn't stopping Johnnie Walker's makerBuoyed by prospects for growth, the British maker of Johnnie Walker and McDowell’s whiskeys has made India one of three focus areas for 201...
- Poll punch: Politicians aiming at creating new vote bank by mixing wine and womenFrom Bihar to Tamil Nadu, politicos are desperately trying to mix wine and women to brew a new electoral elixir that will bring them power.
- Nitish Kumar moots dairy products for liquor vends that close after prohibitionNitish Kumar has his way, thousands of liquor shops in Bihar may be soon be selling healthy dairy products as his government gradually enfo...
- In MP, it’s fierce female dons who run the underworldThey graduated from petty offences to run thriving rackets, be it bootlegging, human trafficking or robbing banks.
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