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 ...

Manipur security forces arrest four individuals at Sita Motor Vehicles Check Post. 4.152 kg of suspected opium seized from a Maruti Suzuki Fronx. Ongoing operations yield significant arms and ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

In a major blow to the illegal opium trade, the Manipur Police and the Forest Department have seized and destroyed 55 acres of opium crops in the Ukhrul district, a known hotspot for illicit farming.

This whole story of how opium, the opium trade really, moulded not just the Indian economy, but really, Indian society in the 19th century, it's something that's really just never told.

The impact of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy fiction series, alongside a renewed academic interest in the historical research on opium industries presented in Smoke and Ashes also importantly ...

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 ...

It is an appealing, if somewhat disquieting paradox: the opium trade that impoverished and crippled India also financed and helped forge the modern state. Opium smokers – William Thomas Saunders ...

The total area of opium poppy cultivation in violence-hit Manipur has declined 60 per cent since 2021, latest data from the autonomous government institution Manipur Remote Sensing Applications ...

In addition to his Britain–India–China tale, Ghosh includes many anecdotes and appraisals of opium’s uses and abuses, past and present. His book is certainly not a polemic; readers seeking a ...