Will Bihar Lift The Liquor Ban After Polls?

Voters are weighing a stark trade-off -- between preserving a socially driven policy and reversing course to revive revenue, restore fiscal balance, and rein in the underground liquor economy.......

Bihar prohibition helps prevent 21L intimate partner violence, finds study

Bihar's alcohol ban in 2016 prevented 24 lakh cases of daily and weekly consumption, and 21 lakh cases of intimate partner violence, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional......

Under siege, Nitish plans to tweak Bihar's prohibition law

Prohibition has hit the JD-U vote-base.Satyavrat Mishra reports from Patna. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at an iftar in Patna, June 5, 2018. Photograph: PTI The occasion was the Yuva......

Bihar's Liquor Ban Faces Heat Ahead Of Elections

As the election nears, political positions on prohibition are shifting. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes.. Photograph: Reuters   Some call it an......

Bihar struggles to pay the price of liquor ban

Incentives for industries have been rolled back and teachers have gone without salary for months as the state grapples with the after-effects of the ban While speaking at a conference in Patna in......

Liquor ban on highways: Over 1 million jobs may vanish

Liquor sales will obviously be hit. So, will real estate prices at what used to be prime locations, close to major thoroughfares. Food and snack sales close to highways will also, in all......

King of good times just refused to grow up

'As he goes down, he will almost certainly drag a few others down with him.''Once the mutual mudslinging has died down, collateral damage will probably include more bankers than politicians, given......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......