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 ...

Efforts to crack down on bootlegging continue nine years after prohibition was introduced in Bihar.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Punjab Assembly has banned sale and consumption of liquor, meat, tobacco in Anandpur Sahib, Talwandi Sabo and Galiara area.