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

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

Laishram Kamal Babu's wife and other women are protesting in Manipur for his return, claiming he disappeared from an army camp. Manipur aut...

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...

"The deployment posture along the Indo-Myanmar border has been strengthened ever since the crisis began in May. Ethnic violence, while nece...

In response to this peculiar predicament, animal rescuers and volunteers, including those from the Slovak Environmental Protection Agency, ...

In a series of social media posts, the Chief Minister said, “To protect the state, the government has launched a green Manipur campaign, id...

"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...

The vast majority of the world's opium and heroin comes from Afghanistan, with production and exports centred in areas controlled by the Ta...

A group of poppy importers and India’s poppy farmers are alleging that a small number of importers have cornered the latest import order vi...

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.

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

Khas khas, an ingredient used to make desserts, is now under govt lens that the money from import could be used for arms trafficking in Pak.

The finance ministry has shortlisted Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppy on 5,000 acres and ...

Four multinationals are in the race to enter opium trade, after having bid for a govt contract to build ultra-modern processing plant to pr...

AIC is close to offering aromatic and medicinal plants insurance and is also working on insurance products for sugarcane, tea and basmati r...