Bihar's decade-old alcohol ban has not stopped drinking. Instead, it has fueled a secret delivery system. Coded words like 'pure milk' and ...

Bihar's strict prohibition has created a black market for alcohol. Whisky prices have quadrupled, with quality control a major concern. The...

Myanmar, embroiled in civil war since a military coup in 2021, has become a major hub for organized crime. The country leads in opium produ...

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...

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials have arrested a woman foreign national at the Bengaluru international airport on ch...

Both the persons have been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, commonly referred to as the NDPS Act, and rem...

A hilly belt in north east Andhra Pradesh is fast becoming the cannabis capital of India.

The author on India Inc’s link to the opium war, the resultant climate change and the 19th century rhetoric that is still repeated today.

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

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

Badal claimed that While heroin comes from Pakistan, opium comes from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

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

Paris-based Indian filmmaker Vijay Singh is in talks with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for his next project, an 18th century historic...

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...

In an interview with ET, Amitav Ghosh explains how American hegemony in the guise of moral rhetoric was one of the triggers for the novel. ...

The "one country, two systems" formula that charted Hong Kong's successful 1997 return to China remains Beijing's platform for both a strid...

A clutch of pharmaceutical majors, including Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy’s, Cipla and Nicholas Piramal, has formed a queue before the finance ministr...