Assam Liquor

To prevent accidents under the influence of alcohol in Assam, the state's Excise, Transport and Fisheries Minister, Parimal Suklabadiya, has written to the state excise department to ensure that all liquor bottles in Assam are affixed with a label.

Assam broke all previous records in seizures of cash, liquor, drug and other goods after the assembly polls were notified, with several agencies confiscating items worth over Rs 110 crore, Chief Electoral Officer of Assam, Nitin Khade, said on Wednes

Assam broke all previous records in seizures of cash, liquor, drug and other goods after the assembly polls were notified with several agencies confiscating items worth over Rs 110 crore, Chief Electoral Officer of Assam Nitin Khade said on Wednesday

A record Rs 331 crore in seizures of cash, liquor, drugs and other goods have been seized in the poll-bound states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, the government said today. The seizures already surpasses the total amount caught in the assembly elections to these state and the Union Territory in...

The Assam government today said that it has cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 5 and reduced the duty on liquor by 25%. The new rates will be effective from midnight today. The announcement comes months ahead of the state assembly election and especially at a time when fuel prices have bee touching new highs across the country.

This year has been tough on the Assam's tea gardens producing the strong liquor tea. First, it was the lockdown, then floods and then incessant rains in Upper Assam, which, according to industry estimates, together account for a production loss of close to 40 per cent.

Assam Excise Department on Thursday allowed restaurants in the state to serve liquor while strictly adhering to the social distancing rules and other COVID-19 guidelines.

Liquor shops in Assam and Meghalaya will reopen on Monday amid the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, the excise departments of the two states said on Sunday. In Assam, the order said that liquor shops, wholesale warehouses, bottling plants, distilleries and breweries will open from Monday for seven hours daily.

Bablu Bhumiji, a 55-year-old labour sardar at the Halmira tea estate, is a worried man. As many as 47 of the 160 labourers killed in the February hooch tragedy used to work under him, and the upcoming elections looks set to bring truckloads of liquor to his doorstep again.

In Assam, which faced its worst liquor tragedy in which 160 people died and more than 500 were affected, many of those who survived have lost their eyesight and are dealing with major health complications. Those affected are largely from the tea garden areas of Golaghat and neighbouring Jorhat districts.

After the unfortunate death of 155 people in possibly Assam's worst hooch tragedy, the National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the state Chief Secretary calling for a detailed report in the matter within four weeks.

Over 150 people, most of them tea garden workers, have died in one of the worst hooch tragedies in Assam. Over 90 are dead in Golaghat and the rest in Jorhat. The number of deaths is likely to go up district administrative officials have told NDTV.

As many as 45 tea plantation workers died on Sunday, pushing the death count in Assam's worst mass alcohol poisoning case in years beyond 143. At least 200 others - 17 of them critical - are still being treated at hospitals across the state, news agency AFP quoted police as saying.

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.

At least 32 tea plantation workers, including nine women, died in Assam from drinking toxic illicit liquor, while at least 50 have been admitted to a hospital. Four of them are critically-ill, a doctor said.

To prevent accidents under the influence of alcohol in Assam, the state's Excise, Transport and Fisheries Minister, Parimal Suklabadiya, has written to the state excise department to ensure that all liquor bottles in Assam are affixed with a label.

Assam broke all previous records in seizures of cash, liquor, drug and other goods after the assembly polls were notified, with several agencies confiscating items worth over Rs 110 crore, Chief Electoral Officer of Assam, Nitin Khade, said on Wednes

Assam broke all previous records in seizures of cash, liquor, drug and other goods after the assembly polls were notified with several agencies confiscating items worth over Rs 110 crore, Chief Electoral Officer of Assam Nitin Khade said on Wednesday

A record Rs 331 crore in seizures of cash, liquor, drugs and other goods have been seized in the poll-bound states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, the government said today. The seizures already surpasses the total amount caught in the assembly elections to these state and the Union Territory in...

The Assam government today said that it has cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 5 and reduced the duty on liquor by 25%. The new rates will be effective from midnight today. The announcement comes months ahead of the state assembly election and especially at a time when fuel prices have bee touching new highs across the country.

This year has been tough on the Assam's tea gardens producing the strong liquor tea. First, it was the lockdown, then floods and then incessant rains in Upper Assam, which, according to industry estimates, together account for a production loss of close to 40 per cent.

Assam Excise Department on Thursday allowed restaurants in the state to serve liquor while strictly adhering to the social distancing rules and other COVID-19 guidelines.

Liquor shops in Assam and Meghalaya will reopen on Monday amid the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, the excise departments of the two states said on Sunday. In Assam, the order said that liquor shops, wholesale warehouses, bottling plants, distilleries and breweries will open from Monday for seven hours daily.

Bablu Bhumiji, a 55-year-old labour sardar at the Halmira tea estate, is a worried man. As many as 47 of the 160 labourers killed in the February hooch tragedy used to work under him, and the upcoming elections looks set to bring truckloads of liquor to his doorstep again.

In Assam, which faced its worst liquor tragedy in which 160 people died and more than 500 were affected, many of those who survived have lost their eyesight and are dealing with major health complications. Those affected are largely from the tea garden areas of Golaghat and neighbouring Jorhat districts.

After the unfortunate death of 155 people in possibly Assam's worst hooch tragedy, the National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the state Chief Secretary calling for a detailed report in the matter within four weeks.

Over 150 people, most of them tea garden workers, have died in one of the worst hooch tragedies in Assam. Over 90 are dead in Golaghat and the rest in Jorhat. The number of deaths is likely to go up district administrative officials have told NDTV.

As many as 45 tea plantation workers died on Sunday, pushing the death count in Assam's worst mass alcohol poisoning case in years beyond 143. At least 200 others - 17 of them critical - are still being treated at hospitals across the state, news agency AFP quoted police as saying.

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.

At least 32 tea plantation workers, including nine women, died in Assam from drinking toxic illicit liquor, while at least 50 have been admitted to a hospital. Four of them are critically-ill, a doctor said.