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 ...
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 ...
Among the election promises made by main opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) led by Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar, is one to exempt toddy, a country liquor, from the state's blanket ban on liquor that was ...
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 ...
Bihar police seize 400 litres of illegal liquor and arrest 47, reinforcing a crackdown on crime under Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary.