The government has announced its licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh for the 2025-...

The Manipur government has ordered heightened vigilance among forest officials to prevent poppy cultivation, particularly as the sowing sea...

Assam Police has destroyed 170 Bighas of illegal poppy cultivation worth Rs 27.20 crore in Goalpara district. Assam Chief Minister Himanta ...

A mob armed with sticks attempted to stop a poppy destruction drive in Kangpokpi, Manipur, as part of the state's War on Drugs campaign. Th...

The Manipur government has destroyed 314.471 kg of drugs valued at Rs 399 crore as part of Chief Minister N Biren Singh's 'War on Drugs' in...

Assam Rifles destroyed 354 acres of illegal poppy fields in three Manipur districts during 2024. The force targeted Ukhrul, Churachandpur, ...

Singh had previously stated that from 1987 to 2021, 877 square kilometers of forest cover in Manipur were destroyed, primarily due to illeg...

The Governor added that the ‘War on Drugs 2.0' is now going on and in 2023, 72.9 kg heroin, 147.1 kg opium, 195.2 kg ganja (marijuana), 111...

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh reported the discovery of new poppy cultivation in Suangkuang under Singngat Sub Division (Churachandp...

Meckley Tea India, a recent entrant into the Indian tea industry has invested in promoting Tea in Manipur and has identified several locati...

To choke the flow of funds to left-wing extremists in the state, the Bihar Police has intensified crackdown on cultivation of illegal poppy...

"Bengalis love 'posto'. Why should it be cultivated in only four states? Why not in West Bengal, despite it being on our menu every day?" s...

A total of 703 people including five chiefs of hill villages have been arrested and over 400 acres poppy fields destroyed. In Ukhrul, Senap...

Afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. Production spiraled over the past 20 ye...

Afghanistan is the world's biggest producer of poppies, the source of sap that is refined into heroin, and in recent years its production a...

The UNODC report noted opium cultivation increased by 63 per cent; from 201,000 hectares in 2016 to an estimated 328,000 hectares in 2017.

Prior to carrying out the drive, the DC briefed the teams that destroying illicit poppy cultivation was very important to make the drugs gr...