Liquor Ban Protests

Broken eggs littered the ground outside the gate. Red splotches of tomatoes smeared the walls. This was the scene outside the house of Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday. His comments on liquor consumption pattern of people from certain communities ended with protesters gathering outside his house by the end of the day

Shimla: After the Supreme Court imposed a ban on sale of liquor within 500 metres of a highway, that came into force on April 1, many owners started to shift shops near or inside residential areas and has thus drawn the ire of women in Himachal Pradesh. In Shimla, Kullu, Kangra, Hamirpur and Mandi districts, women groups have been protesting to dem...

A woman protester was slapped by a senior police officer in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday evening. Additional deputy superintendent of police (ADSP), Pandiarajan, was seen in a video hitting the woman with a lathi before slapping her as he tried to disperse protesters. The incident occurred in Samalapuram in Tirupur, about 460km from Chennai, when...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today appealed to people to not take law in their hands during protest against shifting of liquor vends from highways to populated areas.

Amid a debate and protests over the ban on liquor shops along highways to reduce drink driving, an order in Rajasthan may enable the state to skirt the Supreme Court ruling.

On a day when Parliament began after a lengthy break, union minister Ram Vilas Paswan was in Patna, holding a demonstration against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Broken eggs littered the ground outside the gate. Red splotches of tomatoes smeared the walls. This was the scene outside the house of Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday. His comments on liquor consumption pattern of people from certain communities ended with protesters gathering outside his house by the end of the day

Shimla: After the Supreme Court imposed a ban on sale of liquor within 500 metres of a highway, that came into force on April 1, many owners started to shift shops near or inside residential areas and has thus drawn the ire of women in Himachal Pradesh. In Shimla, Kullu, Kangra, Hamirpur and Mandi districts, women groups have been protesting to dem...

A woman protester was slapped by a senior police officer in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday evening. Additional deputy superintendent of police (ADSP), Pandiarajan, was seen in a video hitting the woman with a lathi before slapping her as he tried to disperse protesters. The incident occurred in Samalapuram in Tirupur, about 460km from Chennai, when...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today appealed to people to not take law in their hands during protest against shifting of liquor vends from highways to populated areas.

Amid a debate and protests over the ban on liquor shops along highways to reduce drink driving, an order in Rajasthan may enable the state to skirt the Supreme Court ruling.

On a day when Parliament began after a lengthy break, union minister Ram Vilas Paswan was in Patna, holding a demonstration against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.