The Rajasthan Police has seized over 693 kg of opium husk (doda chura) that was being transported hidden beneath sacks of onions in a pickup truck in Chittorgarh district, officials said on Wednesday.

Poppy seed is so commonplace in Bengali cuisine – and held in such high regard – that I almost took a packet as a gift for my ...

Delhi Police has busted an international drug syndicate that was smuggling high-quality opium in the form of 'anardana' digestive tablets and arrested two men of the cartel, an official said on ...

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 Doraha police claimed to have recovered 1 kg of opium from a man at a naka on the Rampur road here. The suspect involved ...

Professor-author Amar Farooqui, who recently delivered a lecture series, unravels the insightful emergence of the city as a ...

Celebrated author Amitav Ghosh‘s next book, ‘Smoke and Ashes’, to be released by Harper Collins India’s Fourth Estate imprint on July 15, is, in the words of its sub-title, ‘A Writer’s ...

A teenager was arrested in Jharkhand’s Chatra district after opium worth Rs 1 crore was seized from his possession, police said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the Hadhadwa forest ...

The judgment was delivered by the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Daltonganj, under NDPS Case No. 12/2021, linked to ...