Bhang not ganja: The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted a man convicted under the NDPS Act for allegedly carrying 11 kg of ganja, after a F...

The administration’s decision comes in the wake of growing concerns raised by civil society, religious organizations, and medical experts r...

Ladakh's new Excise Policy permits hard liquor sales, reduces license documents from 16 to six, and expands availability to four more distr...

A businessman was wrongly jailed for 57 days after airport security mistook aamchur and garam masala for narcotics. The Madhya Pradesh High...

The UAE has strengthened its anti-drug law with stricter penalties. New rules mean increased fines and longer jail terms for drug offences....

CBN is a central government organization dealing with the international trade of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and precursor che...

Currently, while the home ministry governs the Narcotics Control Bureau, the Department of Revenue (DoR) in the finance ministry administer...

Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad introduced the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that seeks to ...

Law enforcement agencies are of the view that number of chemicals in the scheduled list should be increased, said a senior official.

All key stakeholder departments have agreed to do away with imprisonment and fines for personal consumption of drugs and amend Section 27 o...

The draft bill is learnt to have proposed imposing a fine for first offences, mandatory community/social work for second offences and impri...

ET has reliably gathered that inter-ministerial discussions have now been initiated on both amending the NDPS Act, 1985 and shifting admini...

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that over the last two months, 874 cases have been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Ps...

SC said that the amount of neutral substance in a mixture has to be included along with the actual weight of the banned substances for dete...

The diversion of pharmaceutical preparations containing narcotics and precursors like ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to illicit channels in ...

Police has failed to seize a single consignment of popular party drug 'Meow Meow', despite its "rampant use" in the national capital.

Goa Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) department has started suspending licences of retailers found violating the laws.