Dry State News Today

The Congress slammed the governments move saying Gujarat being the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi has been away from alcohol and liquor.

The Gujarat government allows alcohol consumption in GIFT city, previously a dry state, under certain conditions.

NOIDA: The excise department and Greater Noida police seized 480 cartons of illicit liquor worth Rs 60 lakh on Sunday from Luharli in Dadri.

The Patna High Court has directed the Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) to review a letter dated 24-11-2020, addressed to all Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), which contains a clause...

The toll in the current hooch tragedy mounted to 31 on Tuesday, with five more people dying after consuming spurious alcohol on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday in Motihari

The Berchha police in Shajapur district had received inputs that a consignment of liquor was being sent to Bihar, another dry state, through MP.

Alcohol is prohibited in Bihar since 2016, but the state has seen a high number of deaths from consumption of toxic liquor in the aftermath of the ban.

Revellers protested and resorted to vandalism at a club in Ahmedabad after the organisers decided to stop the function at 10 pm, an official from Anandnagar police station said. 

The public has been asked to submit in writing opinion regarding lifting of liquor prohibition from Manipur through post or by hand to the commissioner of excise.

The frequent deaths of people after drinking illicit liquor in Bihar have put a question mark on whether the ban has really worked.