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TopicIllegal liquor business

Topic: illegal liquor business

14 dead, 6 hospitalised in Punjab’s Majitha after drinking hooch; cops arrest distributor

Police have registered two FIRs against manufacturers and distributor and say manufacturers will be rounded up soon.

Death toll rises to 57 in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakuruchi hooch tragedy

A total of seven people including 5 men and 2 women out of 156 people who were undergoing treatment at hospitals in Tamil Nadu after consuming illicit liquor have been discharged.

Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur accuses BJP MLA of running illegal liquor shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore

In her statement, which comes after she was denied renomination as BJP candidate for LS polls, she says she'll ask BJP top leadership to remove MLA Sudesh Rai from his position.

9 UP Police & excise personnel booked over deaths from ‘illicit liquor’, accused of bribery

Agra vigilance inspector Dushyant Tiwari says police were well aware of illicit liquor being sold. Three deaths on 17 November that triggered probe ‘were preceded by another’.

42 deaths, 15 arrests, 6 suspensions: How ‘liquor crackdown led to’ hooch tragedy in dry Gujarat

42 people have died in Gujarat over the past few days in worst case of mass-poisoning by spurious alcohol in Gujarat since 2009, when a similar incident reportedly claimed over 125 lives. 

Schools shut for Covid, Bihar teens find new way to pass time & earn — deliver illegal booze

Liquor trade has been flourishing in Bihar despite a ban since April 2016. Procuring alcohol is a punishable offence, yet the law has served as little impediment to the trade.

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Swraj Paul was the original NRI powerbroker. Helped Indira’s return, shaped India Inc

When he was asked why he was so loud in his criticisms of Indian industry when his purpose could be better served by a shrewder approach, he said, “Because I am a Punjabi, not a Marwari”.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

India and France to jointly develop and manufacture 120 kN engine for homegrown AMCA

The new engine, set to be developed over the next 10 years, will power the second tranche of Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft. First set will be equipped with GE 414 engines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?