Ranchi: Balram Munda, the gram pradhan of Kadetumbid village under Maranghada police station limits in Khunti district, was ...

The Ludhiana police claimed to have nabbed a man and seized 2.6 kg of opium and Rs 2.5 lakh drug money from his possession.

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...

Jaipur: The opium farmers' association of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh has strongly urged the Centre to rethink its opium ...

But, it will be said, India consumes 900,000 pounds of opium every year; surely so much could not be required for purely medicinal purposes. If abuse in the form of smoking has ceased, ...

OPIUM is the spontaneously coagulated latex which exudes when the partly ripened capsules of Papaver somniferum L. are lanced on the living plant. On exposure to air, the white, pale-yellow or ...

Authorities incinerate vast quantities of opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and other narcotics in major cities to mark ...

Currently, Afghanistan faces a worsening humanitarian crisis, intensified by mass refugee deportations from Pakistan and Iran ...

Tucked away in a lane in the southern end of India's financial capital, Mumbai, is a museum dedicated to the followers of one of the world's oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. The Framji Dadabhoy ...

The British began exporting Indian opium to China around 1780, after establishing a trading foothold in that kingdom. In 1796, China prohibited the import and consumption of the substance.

After the Opium Wars, the trade increased further, diminishing only in the final decades of the 19th century. In 1907 Britain signed a treaty agreeing to eliminate opium exports from India to China ...