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'Opium concealed inside chocolate boxes sent to Bengaluru through courier': Police bust drug racket

January 13, 2026 10:38 pm

74 grams of opium was recovered from inside the chocolate boxes send via DTDC express courier.

‘Going to start hitting land’: Donald Trump threatens military action against drug cartels in Mexico

January 09, 2026 9:59 pm

Successive US governments have long accused their counterparts in Mexico of failing to crack down on the cartels smuggling drugs across the border.

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Regular at Delhi’s rave parties, supplier of Thai marijuana: Who is Ritik Bajaj, key accused in Rs 13,000-crore drug case

December 24, 2025 12:44 pm

Police said Ritik Bajaj was one of the key suppliers of Virender Basoiya aka Veeru, the Dubai-based businessman allegedly funding the cartel’s operation. He was brought back from Dubai.

US military has all the authorities necessary to strike drug cartels, says Pete Hegseth as criticism grows

'Al-Qaida of Western Hemisphere': Pete Hegseth says US military has all authorities necessary to strike drug cartels

November 12, 2025 10:52 pm

Since September, the US military has carried out 19 air strikes on 20 vessels, accused of trafficking drugs, killing 76 people.

‘We do not agree with these attacks’: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on US strike against drug-transporting vessels

October 29, 2025 12:35 am

US military carried out three strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean targeting drug trafficking vessels, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor.

on Tuesday night, the US military targeted a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

US carries out another strike on alleged drug-carrying boat, killing two, this time in Pacific Ocean

October 23, 2025 7:52 am

With the two deaths on Tuesday night, the toll from all the strikes on suspected drug-carrying boats has reached at least 34 people.

Watch: US strikes alleged drug-trafficking boat off Venezuelan coast, killing four 'narco-terrorists'

October 03, 2025 11:14 pm

According to Hegseth, the strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics to America.

Trump declares Caribbean drug cartels unlawful combatants: Here is what it means

October 02, 2025 11:48 pm

The move comes after the US military last month carried out three deadly strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean.

In April, the Goa Police had recovered 4.3 kg of cocaine drug concealed in 32 packets of wafers and coffee

International drug cartel with Indians acting as ‘mules’ under ED scanner, raids across states

August 22, 2025 10:29 pm

ED says probe initiated after Goa Police registered FIR following 4.3-kg cocaine bust in April. Agency alleges money laundered by foreign nationals to remunerate Indian drug mules.