Munda, Union tribal and agriculture minister, is contesting Lok Sabha elections from Khunti reserved seat that is identified with tribal ic...

In Rajasthan's Chittorgarh, the BJP and Congress vie for the Lok Sabha seat amidst protests from the Rajput community over Parshottam Rupal...

Under the new policy, nearly 1.12 lakh farmers in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are anticipated to be given lic...

The vast majority of the world's opium and heroin comes from Afghanistan, with production and exports centred in areas controlled by the Ta...

A group of poppy importers and India’s poppy farmers are alleging that a small number of importers have cornered the latest import order vi...

"Drug law enforcement in India is a multi-agency task. All enforcement agencies should give high priority to this," Singh said.

The policy talks about two type of addictive substances-- the illicit drugs like heroin, opium and the other, pharmaceutical preparations.

Government has filed cases under FEMA amounting to Rs 17,789.9 crore against 15 companies that have received FDI from tax havens.

The proposed regional forum called the South Asian Regional Intelligence and Coordination Centre on Transnational Organised Crime was moote...

"The policy would endeavour giving priority to traditional cultivators who have been earlier granted licences for cultivation of opium popp...

"If the government takes the potential of Arunachal’s hydroelectric power seriously, half of the power deficiency in the country will end,"...

Most of the villagers in the border areas wear their patriotism on their sleeve, never losing an opportunity to remind this writer that the...

Khas khas, an ingredient used to make desserts, is now under govt lens that the money from import could be used for arms trafficking in Pak.

In the budget documents there is always a figure which is never mentioned by the FM. This is the receipts from the opium and alkaloid facto...

The government today announced a national policy to control and regulate narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to stop the menace of t...

State governments have agreed to the Centre’s proposal to slash purchase tax on opium by at least 50 per cent, in a move aimed at making co...

The government announced the annual licensing policy for opium crop of 2002-03, according to which about one lakh cultivators of Madhya Pra...