The Jalandhar Commissionerate Police, under the leadership of Commissioner of Police Swapan Sharma, has busted an inter-state gang involved in opium smuggling. Commissioner Sharma stated that the ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

In Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed. "She looked at the seed as if she has never seen ...

Border guards arrested four and seized 829 kilograms of methamphetamine, 334 kilograms of opium, 240 kilograms of hashish, 33 ...

T he Wireless Festival Middle East, Europe’s premier celebration of urban music and pop culture, has just announced a new ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

Afghan Opium Cultivation Bounces and Shifts Two Years After Ban, UN Says By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw ...