Despite a one-month extension granted by the AAP government, Delhi witnessed an unofficial dry day on Monday as liquor vends kept shutters down and no alcohol could be served in hotels, clubs and bars...

Sour lemons Sir — Summers, especially in the tropics, are incomplete without lemons. A tall glass of nimbu pani can be both refreshing and healthy. Alas, with a single lemon reta...

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav attacked Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday over the repeated amendments of the prohibition law and said they were being done to confu...

Advanced in technology and morality, Ancient India in the hands of the present rulers has acquired a burnished new look. It shimmers with the sheen of uninformed fantasy, while its wise men are instal...

Measured silence One Bharatiya Janata Party leader who has been silent on the hijab row is BS Yediyurappa. The former chief minister of Karnataka refused to comment even when reporters approached him...

The Nitish Kumar administration has drafted Bihar’s government schoolteachers into the battle to enforce prohibition, ordering them to gather intelligence on people flouting the liquor ban and i...

Cast anew Sir — Stories must be retold according to the changing needs of the time. The Royal Shakespeare Company has set its new production of Much Ado About Nothing in an Afro-futuristic worl...

Doctors' fraternity in the steel city was left shocked following the arrest of a city-based doctor in Patna on Saturday evening.  The Jamshedpur chapter of the Indian Medical Associatio...

It has taken the death of 37 people from drinking spurious liquor in three of Bihar’s districts — five people lost their eyesight and many others fell seriously ill — for the chief m...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday vowed to conduct a full review of the implementation of prohibition in the state and fix the responsibility of government officials in compromising the ban after ...