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...
25 Nov, 2024, 12.49 PM IST
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...
23 Jan, 2023, 09.22 AM IST
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...
20 Nov, 2020, 12.19 PM IST
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...
01 Nov, 2020, 03.13 PM IST
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...
08 Oct, 2020, 02.57 PM IST
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...
28 May, 2019, 02.27 PM IST
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.
17 Mar, 2019, 10.27 AM IST
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...
24 Dec, 2018, 11.00 AM IST
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...
23 Jun, 2018, 12.57 PM IST
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...
28 Apr, 2018, 09.23 AM IST
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...
11 Apr, 2017, 01.53 AM IST
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...
23 Feb, 2017, 02.43 PM IST
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.
12 Apr, 2016, 03.49 AM IST
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...
20 Dec, 2015, 09.31 PM IST
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.
01 Feb, 2013, 05.34 AM IST