KATHMANDU: In a significant operation, the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office has unearthed a factory producing counterfeit alcohol in Kathmandu.
The clandestine facility was found operating in a residential house located at Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-5.
KATHMANDU, March 13: The Advertisement Board has directed media houses to remove advertisements of alcohol immediately.
Issuing a statement on Sunday, the Board has directed the media not to make any liquor-related advertisements.
WELLINGTON, Feb. 27: The number of standard drinks of alcohol per person available for consumption declined to 1.96 per day in 2022, a fall of 1 percent, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Monday.
This is the lowest number of standard drinks of alcohol available per pers
KATHMANDU, Nov 18: The government has banned sale and consumption of alcohol all across the country as the election of the federal and provincial level are scheduled to kick off from Sunday.
According to the decision of the Election Commission (EC), the government has prohibited sale and consumption of alcohol from Thursday night.
The government has urged all the election officers and security personnel to strictly implement the government’s decision and urged the business not to sell alcohol until the vote count is successfully concluded.
MOSCOW, Oct 8: Fourteen people have died of alcohol poisoning in Russia, officials said Friday, with investigators launching criminal probes. An additional eight people were hospitalised in the region of Orenburg, around 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) southeast of Moscow in the southern Urals.
"As of now we know of 22 victims, 14 of whom have died," the governor's office said on messaging app Telegram. Governor Denis Pasler said regional authorities had launched inspections of alcohol distributors. "Before the results of the checks are received consumption of alcohol can threaten your life," Pasler was quoted as saying.
The Orenburg branch of the Investigative Committee said on Friday it had opened five probes including into the sale of goods not meeting safety standards. Three people had been detained in connection with the deaths.
One of them -- a 29-year-old man from the town of Orsk --is suspected of producing surrogate alcohol, investigators said in a statement. The workshop producing alcohol has also been uncovered.
Homemade spirits and household products containing alcohol are popular throughout the former Soviet Union as a cheap alternative to standard brands, but are also blamed for a large number of alcohol-related deaths.
Those who buy them to drink are usually the most socially disadvantaged. In 2016, dozens of people died in the Siberian city of Irkutsk after drinking bath essence containing methanol, a toxic substance used in anti-freeze.
According to the findings of a recent study at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, only a minority of Swedes with alcohol use disorders are prescribed alcohol medication, a situation that has remained largely unchanged in the country since the mid-2000.
