Bihar Dy CM Tejaswi Yadav blamed Uttar Pradesh and Haryana for supplying spurious liquor to Bihar.
After the Hooch Tragedy in Bihar’s Chapra where the death toll has risen to 55 on Friday, five deaths have been reported in Bihar’s Siwan under Bhagwanpur police station due to consumption of spurious liquor on Friday. The numbers are expected to rise. These areas of the Siwan district where the death has been reported […]
The number of people who died after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar’s Chapra rose to 55 on Friday. Many people are seriously ill, and the death toll could rise further. Officials are tight-lipped on the issue as tension prevails in the area over these deaths. Police teams from several police stations are camping in Mashrakh to keep the law-and-order situation in control.
In a major crackdown, Bihar Police have detained 40 suspected liquor smugglers in the dry state.
At least 20 people lost their lives after consuming spurious liquor in Chapra in the dry state of Bihar, prompting a political storm over the faulty implementation of CM Nitish Kumar’s alcohol ban policy. All the victims are men from Mashrakh and Ishauvpur areas of Saran district. “The death toll is expected to rise further,” […]
After the Mahagathbandhan’s defeat in the Kurhani Assembly bypolls, there has been a renewed demand to lift the ban on the sale and consumption of toddy, a natural intoxicant beverage extracted from various species of palm tree – that serves a source of income for lakhs of people in Bihar. Toddy is an alcoholic drink […]
As Indian batting sensation Ishan Kishan scored the fastest double hundred in the history of the One Day Internationals (ODIs) in Chattogram on Saturday, many broke in celebrations more than 1000 km away in Patna, his home city. He achieved the feat by smashing 200 off 126 balls at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram […]
Senior Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amit Lodha, whose book inspired crime series ‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’, has been booked for corruption and criminal conspiracy over his commercial deal with Netflix. A 1998-batch IPS officer, Lodha was booked by the state vigilance unit on Thursday for concealing the actual payment he received as part of […]
In what could bring more embarrassment to CM Nitish Kumar, senior leader Rambali Singh Chandrabanshi of ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has publicly made fun of Bihar’s policy of a ban on liquor sale. The RJD MLC’s statement adds to the growing criticism of the Janata Dal (United) leader’s ambitious liquor ban law. Leaders of […]
In Jehanabad, 50-year-old Ganauri Paswan is being called the next ‘mountain man’ after Dashrath Majhi as he has made a stone stairway of 400 stairs by cutting a 1500-feet high mountain in eight years.