Patna, Feb. 24 -- Bihar's cities and towns will shut down meat and fish shops near schools, temples and other crowded public places, deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Sinha said on Monday, barely a week after announcing a statewide ban on the sale of such products from unlicensed outlets. Sinha, speaking to journalists just a day earlier, had gone a step further, linking open sale and consumption of non-vegetarian food to "violent tendencies" among young people and children. Talking to HT on Sunday, he said: "All local bodies have been asked to enforce the department's order to ban meat shops near schools and sacred religious places. The order has to be complied with in letter and spirit." According to the NFHS-5, about 80% of the state's p...