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
Will make Chhattisgarh alcohol-free, but permit tribals to consume it: Ajit JogiThe former bureaucrat-turned-politician, who has always been considered a strong tribal leader, said he would contest all 90 Assembly seats...
22 Jul, 2018, 03.00 PM IST
Arunachal, Andaman national highways off Supreme Court's booze ban mapArunachal doesn't have many state highways, there are 1,011 liquor vends in the state of which implementation of SC order would warrant clo...
13 Jul, 2017, 09.10 AM IST
SC ban on liquor sale along highways not applicable to marriage palaces: Punjab AGthe apex court had banned liquor vends within 500 metres of national and state highways; This order was also applicable to bars, pubs and r...
19 Apr, 2017, 07.44 PM IST
States seek legal ways to beat highway booze banIn Chandigarh, the Punjab Hotel Association decided to approach the Supreme Court against its order banning serving of liquor at pubs, rest...
03 Apr, 2017, 01.29 PM IST
Robert Vadra, who lost sister to drunk driver, wants highway booze ban modified to protect 'respectable establishments'Robert Vadra's sister Michelle Vadra was killed by a drunk driver on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in April 2001.
03 Apr, 2017, 01.28 PM IST
Man behind liquor ban sulks as Chandigarh bars and pubs go dryWith the Supreme Court’s order coming into force, many bars and restaurants in Harman Sidhu’s hometown — Chandigarh — have been forced to g...
03 Apr, 2017, 09.19 AM IST
Prohibition promoting communal harmony in Bihar: Nitish Kumar"The road accidents have come down by 19 per cent between April and November this year when compared to the same period last year," Nitish ...
08 Dec, 2016, 07.55 PM IST
Nitish govt firm on booze ban, to seek legal opinionDespite getting a SC stay on Patna HC order quashing the anti-liquor law, Nitish govt is worried about the validity of some penal provision...
05 Nov, 2016, 11.27 AM IST
Nitish Kumar vows a more stringent law after Patna high court scraps booze ban"We will mark the centenary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha movement by implementing the new Act on Gandhi Jayanti," ...
02 Oct, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
Nitish Kumar credits all political parties for liquor ban in BiharChief Minister Nitish Kumar today said all political parties were together on imposition of a total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol ...
07 Apr, 2016, 07.11 PM IST
Bihar booze ban: 750 alcoholics fall ill; 1 even eats soap to get a highAfter the Nitish govt banned all alcohol in the state on Tuesday, doctors have had to deal with hundreds of people going through alcohol wi...
07 Apr, 2016, 01.34 PM IST
For public good, states can ban booze: SCWhile upholding the Kerala government’s decision to render all hotels except five-star ones dry, the Supreme Court also ruled that the stat...
01 Jan, 2016, 08.15 AM IST
Maha govt in 'dilemma' over demand for liquor ban on Eid"This is the first time that the government has got a request to ban alcohol on Eid-e-Milad. No legislator or a private citizen has ever ma...
21 Dec, 2015, 03.09 PM IST
Why banning booze is Nitish Kumar’s first blunderFrom April 1, 2016, Nitish said, Bihar would declare prohibition: sorry folks, no more boozing. This, he claimed, would fulfil a promise he...
29 Nov, 2015, 12.28 PM IST
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar vows to ban booze if voted back to powerAfter 10 years in power he may not have quite achieved any of those goals, but he is set to catch up with the two states in another: a ban ...
10 Jul, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Booze-ad ban leaves Diageo ‘Disappointed’ in TurkeyProtesters who’ve taken to the streets calling for Prime Minister Erdogan’s resignation have denounced the alcohol restrictions, among othe...
13 Jun, 2013, 05.24 AM IST