Country Liquor

Assam hooch tragedy: Over 80 tea plantation workers dead after consuming spurious liquor in Golaghat, Jorhat districts

Police say at least 50 people have died and another 50 fallen sick after drinking tainted liquor in two separate incidents in Assam

West Bengal: Toxic country liquor kills six, 30 criticial in Burdwan

Six people have died and thirty others were critically injured after consuming toxic alcohol in Burdwan district of West Bengal, reports said.

Cash strapped tipplers choose country liquor over IMFL, as demonetisation hits alcohol hard

The central government's decision to demonetise higher-value currency notes has had an unlikely victim; sale of alcohol has been hit badly in the state of Maharashtra

Mumbai hooch deaths: Police, govt, excise dept learnt nothing from a similar tragedy in 2004

Eleven years after a hooch tragedy took the lives of 107 people in Mumbai, the police and excise department seem to have not learnt a thing.

Punjab govt makes country liquor cheaper, but no one's cheering

The decision was announced in the new excise policy of the Punjab government for the year 2015-16.

Truck carrying huge amount of country liquor overturns in Mumbai

At about 2:30 in the morning a truck carrying a large amount of country liquor overturned. While no one was injured, bottles were strewn all over the road with locals and cops clearing the area.

Why Chouhan's rollback of a decision on liquor sale is important for the BJP

Though the Congress also has had great affinity for liquor mafiosi, it jumped at the opportunity of alleging a secret understanding between the BJP and the liquor barons.