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Panchkula: Opium found inside a chocolate box; ‘mastermind’ arrested, sent to judicial custody

July 01, 2025 3:25 am

DCP (Crime) Amit Dahiya shared that the case dates back to July 2024. Jaskaran, a native of Punjab, was employed in Bengaluru at the time

Opiate stocks at the end of 2022 were estimated to have totalled 13,200 tonne, enough to potentially meet demand for Afghan opiates until 2027

Opium prices in Afghanistan near historic peaks due to shortage: UNODC report

March 13, 2025 1:32 pm

No let up in methamphetamine supply in Afghanistan, says the UNODC report released in Vienna

Mumbai The accused had claimed that there were various procedural flaws in the case including non-compliance of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. (Express File/Representative Photo)

Mumbai court sentences man found with opium to 3 yrs in jail

December 31, 2024 8:43 pm

A special court took a lenient view as the 47-year-old man is HIV positive.

Punjab cop arrested for misrepresenting facts in drug case, keeping 2 in illegal confinement

November 05, 2024 3:48 am

S-I picked up two suspects from Patiala, kept them in his custody for the night, showed their arrest in Ludhiana the next day: FIR

UN drug agency warns of opium shortage amid Taliban ban

June 26, 2024 10:00 pm

The UNODC is particularly worried that heroin users will instead resort to the use of nitazenes, a type of highly potent, synthetic opioid that leads to overdose deaths.

Man held in Punjab’s Mohali district for opium cultivation, 447 poppy plants seized from his fields

April 04, 2024 3:40 pm

Derabassi Station House Officer (SHO) Sub-Inspector Ajitesh Kaushal said, “We received information that Harwinder Singh, a resident of Derabassi town, was illegally growing poppy plants.”

War-wracked Myanmar is now the world's top opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, says UN agency

December 13, 2023 8:55 pm

The violent political turmoil in Myanmar has contributed to the opium production increase.

155 grams of opium found in shoes to be parcelled to the US

October 05, 2023 11:36 pm

The ASI further said that they collected documentation, including an invoice, an airway bill, and an Aadhaar card belonging to a Hardeep Singh, a resident of Chandigarh. The parcel was to be sent to a Gurinder Singh in the USA.

Opium: The drug that gave colonialism a real high

September 16, 2023 12:22 pm

In February 1793, British ambassador to China, George Macartney, embarked on a mission to open China for trade, driven by Britain's insatiable thirst for Chinese tea. Yet, it wasn't tea but the potent lure of opium, harvested from the poppy plant, that would come to shape global trade and politics.

Punjab politicians renew demand for legalising opium sale, say ‘it’s part of our culture’

August 21, 2023 7:15 am

“Government should make cards for users to buy opium. This will also give exact data of users which is not known now,” Maluka said.

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Inside the Mexican town that supplies most of United States' heroin

February 11, 2019 2:14 pm

Overdose deaths from opioids have increased almost six-fold in past two decades in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The year 2017 witnessed more than 15,000 deaths due to heroin overdose.