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Narco-colonialism: How Britain exploited Indians for its drug trade with ChinaIndia Independence Day 2025: A century-long British colonial opium trade in India exploited millions of farmers, becoming the regime's seco...- Is Trump’s trade battle really a war on drugs?In Manhattan’s Chinatown, two statues represent historic Chinese figures separated by centuries. The article explores Trump's efforts to co...
- Mob tries to halt poppy destruction drive in Kangpokpi, ManipurA 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...
- Central Bureau of Narcotics plans to conduct GIS mapping to monitor opium cultivationCentral Bureau of Narcotics plans GIS survey to curb illegal opium trade. Farmers cultivate opium with other crops in Northeast, Rajasthan,...
- Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world's biggest opium producer: UNMyanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium in 2023, surpassing Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report. The UN Offi...
- Drug seizures in India in 2020 highest in five years: NCBSimilarly, the seizure of heroin (extracted from opium) shot up from 3,231 kg in 2019 to 3,838 kg in 2020, ganja (cannabis) from 3,42,045 k...
- All the Dope on Marijuana: US House of Representative passes bill to decriminalise use of cannabisCannabis is also used in some religious rituals and festivals such as Holi in which bhang is consumed.
- Record-high opium production in Afghanistan creates multiple challenges for region and beyond: UNThe UNODC report noted opium cultivation increased by 63 per cent; from 201,000 hectares in 2016 to an estimated 328,000 hectares in 2017.
- 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...
- Drug business leads to narco-terrorism: Rajnath SinghSingh said international cooperation was required to collectively fight against "this menace and evil", which is assuming threatening propo...
- Opioids can be silent killers if abusedIn 2010, according to the INCB, 99% of the global production of licit opium—580 tonnes—occurred in India.
- India to set up SAARC centre against drugs abuse menace: Hasmukh AdhiaThe proposed regional forum called the South Asian Regional Intelligence and Coordination Centre on Transnational Organised Crime was moote...
- Arunachal Pradesh tops in poppy cultivation; raises security concernsArunachal has emerged on top among illegal opium poppy producers in country, ringing alarm bells among security agencies given its proximit...
- Punjab used as transit route by drug peddlers: Sukhbir Singh BadalHe said Punjab Police has seized the highest percentage of drugs in the country besides putting nearly 30,000 smugglers behind bars in a dr...
- India red-flags illegal opium from TurkeyLikely to cap imports and monitor consignments as poppy seeds flooding the local mkt hurting domestic producers.
- Union Budget 2012: Opium trade tucked away among the budget papersIn 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...
- Drug mafia in India switches to high profit hybrid cannabisA hybrid variety of cannabis, which was found to be used in countries like Mexico, has increasingly become popular among the Indians who gr...
- US concerned over illicit drug market in IndiaIndia has been listed in the "Majors List" of illegal drug transit and drug producing countries, a categorisation of nations which are over...
- Opium production to go privateAnd now opium production too is set to go private with top players such as Ranbaxy, Cipla and Dr Reddy’s Labs vying for a piece of the pie.
- Of substance of abuse and medicinal effectPlant-based and synthetic substances broadly called drugs have many uses and effects, some of which make them useful as medicines
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