A pest outbreak and erratic weather have devastated Bihar’s famed Shahi litchi crop, with losses reaching 70% in some orchards and threatening the livelihoods of farmers, labourers, packers and transporters who depend on the short summer harvest
A decade of prohibition in the state has pushed drinking underground, creating coded doorstep liquor deliveries, a booming black market, rising drug abuse, and repeated hooch tragedies
NDA partners Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar hold all the aces as the BJP, with a vastly reduced mandate, prepares the ground for Modi 3.0
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