Late last year, I was in Bodh Gaya in the northern Indian state of Bihar, the birthplace of Buddhism, on the first night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. Candles and colored lights radiated a ...

Nine years after imposing a statewide alcohol ban to curb addiction, domestic violence, and financial ruin among its poorest families, Bihar - India's poorest state - still struggles to gauge the ...

Jitan Ram Manjhi praises the state’s liquor ban but says weak implementation and a bureaucrat–bootlegger nexus are hurting ...

Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi praises Bihar's liquor prohibition law but criticizes its flawed implementation due to bureaucratic and bootlegger collusion. While once critical, Manjhi argues the law ...

In a change of tack, Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday lavished praise on the prohibition law that has been in place in Bihar for nearly a decade, but pointed out that “implementation” has ...