Excise steps up crackdown on sale of illicit liquor in Kozhikode

Excise steps up crackdown on sale of illicit liquor in Kozhikode

Ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Excise department has set up a 24-hour control room and deployed a striking force to curb the distribution and sale of illicit liquor and narcotics, strengthen night patrol, and ensure prompt action on complaints. The public may register complaints directly with control rooms, excise offices, or through … Read more

A.P. cracks the whip on illicit liquor trade along inter-State borders

A.P. cracks the whip on illicit liquor trade along inter-State borders

Illicit liquor seized from the areas along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border during raids by the Excise Department recently. Photo: Special Arrangement The Andhra Pradesh government has intensified its war on illicit liquor with a massive inter-State crackdown targeting smuggling and brewing operations along its borders with Odisha, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. The coordinated enforcement … Read more

Police, SEB destroy 4,500 litres of illicit liquor in Madanapalle

Police, SEB destroy 4,500 litres of illicit liquor in Madanapalle

Police personnel during a cordon and search operation at Naramakula Thanda near Madanapalle in Annamayya district on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Madanapalle sub-division police along with the Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB) conducted a ‘cordon and search’ operation at Naramakula thanda and surrounding hamlets on the outskirts of Madanapalle in the early hours of … Read more

Bihar hooch tragedy | 20 held, huge cache of illicit liquor seized

Bihar hooch tragedy | 20 held, huge cache of illicit liquor seized

Former Union Minister and BJP MP Radha Mohan Singh meets with people admitted at Government Hospital Motihari after allegedly consuming spurious liquor, in East Champaran on April 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Police have arrested 20 people and seized huge quantities of spurious liquor from different villages in Bihar’s Motihari, even as the death … Read more

Fewer Illicit Drug Seizures Seen During Lockdowns

Fewer Illicit Drug Seizures Seen During Lockdowns

FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Seizures of illegal drugs fell sharply in the United States during early COVID-19 lockdowns, but spiked once stay-at-home orders eased. Researchers studied seizures of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in five locations between March 2019 (a year before the pandemic began in the United States) through … Read more

MP: 11 dead after consuming illicit liquor in Ujjain, probe ordered

MP: 11 dead after consuming illicit liquor in Ujjain, probe ordered

At least 11 people were killed in MP’s Ujjain after consuming illicit liquor. The state government has ordered a probe into the matter. (Representative image: Reuters) Eleven people died during the intervening night of October 14 and 15 in the temple city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh after consuming illicit liquor. The MP government has … Read more