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Mohali Police busts inter-state drug smuggling racket
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 24 (ANI): The Mohali Police on Sunday busted an inter-state drug smuggling racket and recovered 8 kg of opium being smuggled using an ambulance on the Ambala-Chandigarh Highway and arrested three accused, Information and Public Relations Department, Punjab s
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Railway Police nabs 4 people, recovers 10.11 kg opium from their possessio
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 21 (ANI): A special team of Guwahati Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday arrested four persons and recovered 10.11 kg of opium from their procession.
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Five injured in bar shooting in Marbella, southern Spain
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], June 19 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five people were injured when a shooting and knife fight broke out early on Monday at the open-air Opium nightclub in Marbella in southern Spain.
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Drug smuggler arrested, 70 Kg poppy seized from Afghanistan's Badakhshan p
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): A drug smuggler was arrested and 70 kilograms of opium poppy were confiscated from his possession in the northern Badakhshan province, media reports said citing the state-run Bakhtar news agency.
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Imphal police arrest truck driver carrying opium worth Rs 10 crore, seize
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], July 13 (ANI): A truck driver in the Minuthong area was arrested by the Imphal West District Police for carrying opium worth Rs 10 crore in his truck.
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Bajaj Healthcare forays into opiate processing, receives two tenders from
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Bajaj Healthcare has forayed into highly-regulated opiate processing as it received two tenders from the central government for manufacturing of concentrated poppy straw and alkaloids/active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from unlanced poppy capsules alon
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Vicious cycle of Pakistan's insecurity, Afghanistan's opium trade converge
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 16 (ANI): The illegal-narcotics trade constitutes one of the main financial sources of the insurgency groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but, more importantly, it feeds narco-terror.
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Taliban unlikely to curb Afghanistan's drug trade: Report
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): The Taliban through tactical declarations have been pretending to halt production of narcotics in Afghanistan to evade close international scrutiny on opium cultivation in the country.
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Brewing a storm in a teacup
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was tea that spawned the British Empire. To pay for Chinese tea the British grew opium and exported it to China and till they started growing tea in India and Ceylon ( Sri Lanka) they depended on the Chinese produ
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Afghanistan's drug industry continues to thrive despite ban on poppy culti
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 3 (ANI): Afghanistan's fastest-growing drug industry operates from desert outposts in plain view, a US media report said on Monday, weeks after the Taliban announced a ban on poppy cultivation.
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Assam Police seizes large quantity of drugs
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Srirampur/Kokrajhar (Assam) [India], April 29 (ANI): Assam Police seized a large quantity of drugs including 3.1 kg of heroin and 85 kg of opium from a truck at Srirampur gate in Kokrajhar district along Assam-West Bengal border on Friday, police said.
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Why Taliban's decision to outlaw opium cultivation is difficult to impleme
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 18 (ANI): The Taliban have announced measures to halt opium trade even as the country's economy is facing a serious resource crunch.
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