Prohibition News

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said he is against liquor He said liquor ban helped reduce crime rate in the state

Pakistan stressed that the treaty neither forms a part of, nor contributes to the development of customary international law in any manner.

Following reports of "rats guzzling down liquor" stored in police stations of Bihar, the authorities have now started destroying seized contraband.

Bihar is the first state to have such restrictions for officials and judges.  

There are three beer factories, 12 IMFL factories and six factories manufacturing ethanol in Bihar.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Wednesday praised by the Dalai Lama for the prohibition in the state.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that the state government will organise the world`s longest human chain in support of prohibition in January 2017.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said if India is keen to compete with China, prohibition will have to be imposed across the country.

The incident has exposed that despite the total prohibition on liquor consumption in Bihar since April 5 this year, alcohol is available in the black market.  

As many as 4,707 people have been arrested in four months and 3,719 FIRs lodged in connection with the liquor ban in Bihar.

Voicing his opinion against prohibition and beef ban in the country, Adi Godrej, chairman of the Godrej Group has said that these government policies hurt the economy.

Karunanidhi was seeking to clarify after certain quarters doubted that the DMK will fulfill its pre-poll promise of ban on sale and consumption of liquor.

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday released his party's poll manifesto for the May 16 Tamil Nadu assembly elections and promised prohibition if his party returned to power in the southern state.

An alcohol ban imposed in the Indian state of Bihar was supposed to clean up public life.

Days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that liquor will be banned in the state from April 1, 2016, he has now come up with a novel idea to aid those whose liquor shops will be affected by the prohibition.