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HEROIN ADDICTION IN PUNJAB
Punjab demands 50 new drone jammers at NITI Aayog's 10th governing council meetingPunjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday urged the Centre to install 50 additional drone jammers along the state’s 553-km border wit...
View: Drug abuse affects more people than Covid yet we bury the issueIf you believe that drug abuse can’t be compared to the Covid-19 pandemic, do browse through India’s first-ever large-scale, nationwide sur...
The Chitta economy: How the business of drugs works in PunjabIn the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished.
Caffeine no different from cocaine in Punjab textbooksIn fact, the chapter nowhere explains in detail what addiction is, and only briefly touches upon the long-term damage addiction causes to t...
How Punjab is fighting the drug menaceThe chief minister says the efforts of the special task force, police and intelligence agencies have led to a decline in supplies of heroin...
We can't expect the drug problem to disappear in months: Punjab CM Amarinder SinghThis problem has become huge because of years of neglect and the failure to keep youth gainfully employed, says Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.
Pakistan pumps diluted heroin into Punjab, triggers fearDr Aditya Avinash Kaushik says, "The supplier can afford to dilute a drug only if there is permanent demand in the system.There have to be ...
Punjab attacks: Link between the old war on drugs & new war on terrorJust last week Punjab Police arrested a BSF man in Tarn Taran district for allegedly helping cross-border smugglers sneak in heroin from ot...
Why opioid must worry India as much as USThese drugs work on the brain’s reward system, which gives the user “positive sensation” and euphoria.
Narcotics trade via darknet, Bitcoin reported in India for first timeWhile 'darknet' is a clandestine internet network which can only be accessed with specific software, is difficult to track by the usual com...
Addicts in Punjab getting attracted to medicine-based drug: NCBNarcotics Control Bureau (NCB) here, the Home Minister discussed the narcotic scenario in Punjab and steps taken to check the incidents of ...
Udti khabar: Drugs to be poll issue in PunjabPunjab chief minister M Sukhbir Badal often points to widespread drug abuse in Goa, Delhi and Himachal not getting the same attention as th...
Punjab sinking in drugs worth Rs 7,500 crore from Pakistan per year: AIIMSThis is a startling revelation given that almost all the heroin that comes to Punjab is through the Pakistan border, pumped in by smugglers...
Punjab to move Madhya Pradesh HC for ban on poppy cultivation and opium saleBadal claimed that While heroin comes from Pakistan, opium comes from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Punjab bearing brunt of its war against drugs: Chief Minister Parkash Singh BadalPunjab Chief Minister Badal said that the state was being maligned irrespective of the fact that not even a single ounce of drug was produc...
Drug issue: Parkash Singh Badal asks political parties not to malign PunjabChief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that Punjab alone was fighting the nation's war against drugs despite it now being a "cosmopolitan"...
BSF objects three “anti-drug” rallies SAD is planning on January 5Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal announced the rallies on Sunday to “pressurise BSF” to stop the entry of drugs from Pakistan.
Shiromani Akali Dal MP wants poppy husk vends in PunjabIt was in 2009 that the state government had accepted before the high court that 70% of the state's youth were addicted to drugs.
Rahul was right, Punjab youth in the grip of drugsRahul Gandhi lamented about scourge of drugs in Punjab last year and his statement was roundly panned by several state politicians.
Assembly Election 2012: Democratic exercise intoxicating in Punjab"The emergence of drugs as a potential vote-catching ingredient in Punjab is perhaps the most worrying trend of these polls," EC said.