At least seven people have died in the last three days allegedly after consuming spurious liquor in Saran district of Bihar which is a dry state, a senior police officer said on Saturday. The inciden...

The Congress on Friday alleged complicity of the Gujarat administration in a flourishing illicit liquor trade in Gujarat, which recently claimed 45 lives while over 100 people are still battling for t...

On Thursday, the Gujarat Home Department transferred the Superintendents of Police of Botad and Ahmedabad in the Gujarat hooch tragedy. The agency also suspended six other cops following the deat...

A fire broke out on the top floor of a two-storey residential building at Rupchand Mukherjee Lane in Bhowanipore in south Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon, police said.  The fire started around 12...

At least four persons were killed and two were battling for their lives in suspected hooch-linked incidents in Patna and Muzaffarpur. The family members of the victims asserted that the deaths occurr...

The Bihar government went into denial mode as the count of the number of people who had died allegedly after drinking hooch on Holi climbed to 39 on Monday from 19 the day before. Bihar is a dry stat...

At least 19 people have died and many are battling for their lives after allegedly consuming hooch during Holi in Bihar, a state where prohibition laws are so stringent that owning a bottle of liquor ...

“All family members and villagers are saying that the deaths happened after consuming liquor, but the district administration is not accepting it. “The incident seems to be a result of ho...

“Those selling and consuming liquor should be punished, but they are just like multi-headed hydra. New ones will spring up if you cut them. If you want to weed out liquor, you will have to destr...

At least three people died and several others were battling for their lives in hospitals in Samastipur district of dry Bihar as another hooch tragedy surfaced on Tuesday. Chief minister Nitish Kumar i...