Central Bureau of Narcotics plans GIS survey to curb illegal opium trade. Farmers cultivate opium with other crops in Northeast, Rajasthan,...

Myanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium in 2023, surpassing Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report. The UN Offi...

Similarly, 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...

Cannabis is also used in some religious rituals and festivals such as Holi in which bhang is consumed.

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.

While 'darknet' is a clandestine internet network which can only be accessed with specific software, is difficult to track by the usual com...

Singh said international cooperation was required to collectively fight against "this menace and evil", which is assuming threatening propo...

In 2010, according to the INCB, 99% of the global production of licit opium—580 tonnes—occurred in India.

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

Arunachal has emerged on top among illegal opium poppy producers in country, ringing alarm bells among security agencies given its proximit...

He said Punjab Police has seized the highest percentage of drugs in the country besides putting nearly 30,000 smugglers behind bars in a dr...

Likely to cap imports and monitor consignments as poppy seeds flooding the local mkt hurting domestic producers.

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...

A hybrid variety of cannabis, which was found to be used in countries like Mexico, has increasingly become popular among the Indians who gr...

India has been listed in the "Majors List" of illegal drug transit and drug producing countries, a categorisation of nations which are over...

And 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.

Plant-based and synthetic substances broadly called drugs have many uses and effects, some of which make them useful as medicines