Illegal Alcohol

Tokyo's Heiwa Doburoku Kabutocho Brewery is reviving the nearly forgotten traditional Japanese spirit, doburoku, in the bustling Nihombashi area.

The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people after illegally consuming alcohol and then driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche sports car sans a license of any sort - has been sent to jail till June 7.

A dozen Indonesians died and four were in critical condition after drinking illegal bootleg liquor, authorities said today, the latest deaths caused by home-made alcohol in the Muslim-majority country.

Money was "illegally" collected from "every bottle" of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh and evidence of "unprecedented" corruption and laundering of Rs 2,000 crore generated by an alcohol syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar.

With the arrest of three people, the Noida Police in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday claimed to have busted a Delhi-based inter-state gang of liquor smugglers and also seized around 4,500 litres of alcohol estimated worth more than Rs 20 lakh.

Police have arrested a woman for illegally selling alcohol in Maharashtra's Wardha district. Several liquor bottles were found hidden under a shrine at her home.

A 22 year old employee of an information technology firm allegedly died due to excess consumption of alcohol during an illegal rave party held in a popular mall in the city last night, police said on Sunday.

At least four people have died and several others fell ill after consuming suspected spurious liquor in Bihar's Samastipur, officials said today. This is the third straight day that deaths due to illegal liquor have been reported in Bihar.

Three farmers in Gujarat have been arrested for selling illegal alcohol after their own buffaloes got drunk on the hooch, the police said.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to initiate a thorough probe into the complaint by an agro processing company alleging that it had been singled out by certain excise officials for not agreeing to their illegal demands thereby impacting the company's alcohol business in the state.

After LJP chief Chirag Paswan targeted Nitish Kumar over prohibition in Bihar - declaring "in the name of liquor ban, people are being labelled smugglers" - he hit back, alleging "people in the illegal liquor business" wanted to oust him from power

As many as 161 men and 31 women were arrested from a rave party being held illegally at a farmhouse in Noida, police said on Sunday.

The number of tea plantation workers who died after consuming toxic illicit liquor in Assam has gone up to 120. More than350 people are in hospital. The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand from drinking illegally produced alcohol, known locally as hooch or country liquor.

A policeman suffered serious injuries on Saturday after an alleged alcohol dealer ran a car over his legs in a bid to escape from a check post on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border in Gujarat's Arvalli district, an official said.

The Assam government on Friday destroyed over six lakh bottles of illegal liquor and beer valued at Rs 168.55 crore with Excise Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya crushing these under a roadroller. The Excise Department had seized the liquor in the state in 2016.

Tokyo's Heiwa Doburoku Kabutocho Brewery is reviving the nearly forgotten traditional Japanese spirit, doburoku, in the bustling Nihombashi area.

The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people after illegally consuming alcohol and then driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche sports car sans a license of any sort - has been sent to jail till June 7.

A dozen Indonesians died and four were in critical condition after drinking illegal bootleg liquor, authorities said today, the latest deaths caused by home-made alcohol in the Muslim-majority country.

Money was "illegally" collected from "every bottle" of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh and evidence of "unprecedented" corruption and laundering of Rs 2,000 crore generated by an alcohol syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar.

With the arrest of three people, the Noida Police in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday claimed to have busted a Delhi-based inter-state gang of liquor smugglers and also seized around 4,500 litres of alcohol estimated worth more than Rs 20 lakh.

Police have arrested a woman for illegally selling alcohol in Maharashtra's Wardha district. Several liquor bottles were found hidden under a shrine at her home.

A 22 year old employee of an information technology firm allegedly died due to excess consumption of alcohol during an illegal rave party held in a popular mall in the city last night, police said on Sunday.

At least four people have died and several others fell ill after consuming suspected spurious liquor in Bihar's Samastipur, officials said today. This is the third straight day that deaths due to illegal liquor have been reported in Bihar.

Three farmers in Gujarat have been arrested for selling illegal alcohol after their own buffaloes got drunk on the hooch, the police said.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to initiate a thorough probe into the complaint by an agro processing company alleging that it had been singled out by certain excise officials for not agreeing to their illegal demands thereby impacting the company's alcohol business in the state.

After LJP chief Chirag Paswan targeted Nitish Kumar over prohibition in Bihar - declaring "in the name of liquor ban, people are being labelled smugglers" - he hit back, alleging "people in the illegal liquor business" wanted to oust him from power

As many as 161 men and 31 women were arrested from a rave party being held illegally at a farmhouse in Noida, police said on Sunday.

The number of tea plantation workers who died after consuming toxic illicit liquor in Assam has gone up to 120. More than350 people are in hospital. The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand from drinking illegally produced alcohol, known locally as hooch or country liquor.

A policeman suffered serious injuries on Saturday after an alleged alcohol dealer ran a car over his legs in a bid to escape from a check post on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border in Gujarat's Arvalli district, an official said.

The Assam government on Friday destroyed over six lakh bottles of illegal liquor and beer valued at Rs 168.55 crore with Excise Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya crushing these under a roadroller. The Excise Department had seized the liquor in the state in 2016.