Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 16 (ANI): Around 10 to 15 people were detained by the police here on Saturday after they were found standing in long queues outside a government-run TASMAC liquor shop, with duplicate copies of the token issued to them.
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Within a week of reopening of liquor stores in the national capital, the rush at these shops seems to have visibly dwindled.
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Despite the implementation of an e-token system for the sale of liquor in the national capital, long queues and crowds continued outside liquor shops for the fifth day on Friday, with many expressing confusion over the new token system.
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): The Delhi government has come up a unique idea to ensure social distancing at liquor shops and has launched an e-token system allowing people to book a time slot to buy alcohol without having to stand in long queues and spend hours.
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): As India has stepped into much relaxing third phase of lockdown, liquor shops across the country have witnessed long chaotic queues with variant versions of social distancing.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 6 (ANI): People formed long queues outside liquor shops across Telangana, hours before the opening time, as the stores opened for the first time on Wednesday since the coronavirus-induced lockdown was imposed.
Thane (Maharashtra) [India], May 6 (ANI): Even as the nationwide lockdown is in force to contain COVID-19, scores of migrant workers were seen in long queues outside private medical clinics on Wednesday in Dombivli city of Thane, to get medical certificates in order to obtain transit passes
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 5 (ANI): As liquor shops across Andhra Pradesh reopened after a long time following relaxations by the government, school teachers here were roped in to control the throng of tipplers who were seen pushing and shoving each other to buy alcohol with
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Long queues and crowds were seen at liquor shops across the national capital on Tuesday despite a 70 percent tax hike imposed by the Delhi government on the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of liquor.
Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): While the long queues outside liquor stores across the country have sparked debates about people flouting social distancing norms and downplaying the COVID-19 threat, a Delhi resident instead showered flower petals on people standing outside a booze shop in the Ch
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): A serpentine queue stretching over a kilometre at least was seen outside a liquor outlet here in Chittoor on Monday. Men who covered their faces with handkerchiefs or other masks, their lungis tucked up impatiently jostled each other impatient
Krishna (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): People flocked outside various liquor shops across Andhra Pradesh in large numbers, flouting social distancing guidelines at several places, as stores opened for the first time since the imposition of coronavirus-induced lockdown.