In dry Bihar, a drunk bridegroom forgot to attend his wedding — when he sobered up the day after, he rushed to the bride’s home but she refused to marry him. Thriving illicit liquor trade In April 2016, the Bihar government had banned consumption, storage, sale and trade of liquor in the State, under the strict provisions of the State …
Divya Kumari is a regular college-going 23-year-old, who spends a lot of her life on her new iPhone 14. Across ‘dry’ Bihar’s 38 districts, 15,831 women, from April 2016— when prohibition was introduced— to December 2022, have been arrested on charges of violating the prohibition law of the State. On the ‘job’ Women bootleggers have distinct advantages in a job …
Six villagers have died in a suspected hooch tragedy in Saran district in dry Bihar, the district administration said on Wednesday. The district administration has confirmed six deaths due to a “suspected hooch tragedy” in villages under the Masrakh, Marhaura, Amnour and Ishuapur Blocks of Chhapra, district headquarter of Saran district, in dry Bihar. When Opposition BJP legislators raised the …
