From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre. Publication date 2002 Topics Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C, Iran -- History -- To 640 Publisher Winona Lake, IN : ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2008 — Sea of Poppies author Amitav Ghosh discusses the origins of Great Britain's 19th-century opium trade between India and China. (2 min.) Watch the complete program ...

Paru en 1955, L'Opium des intellectuels est une condamnation sans appel de la crédulité teintée de mauvaise foi et du dogmatisme dans lesquels se drape l'intelligentsia française de l'époque. Raymond ...

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government has directed the state police department to remove all Urdu and Persian words in official documents and replace them with Hindi ...

Mr. Bedham proposed that the police department prepare a draft of simplified words to replace Urdu and Persian terms, which he believes are no longer in common use.

Don't Get Involved in Another Persian Gulf War. Sumantra Maitra, The American Conservative June 15, 2025. AP.

The Chhattisgarh government is simplifying police records by replacing Urdu and Persian words with easily understandable Hindi terms. Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma directed the change to improve ...

Jaipur: Rajasthan Police have been issued a directive about use of words in specific languages. Minister of State Jawahar Singh Bedham on Saturday wrote to Director General of Police Ravi Prakash ...

In the 19th century, the British Empire used opium to bring China to its knees. In 2025, Kash Patel says China is returning the favour to the British Empire’s successor—with fentanyl.

‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State. Poppy cultivation and methamphetamine production has surged in Myanmar amid the country’s grinding civil war.

HAIKOU -- Police in the southernmost Chinese province of Hainan on Tuesday publicly destroyed about 1,590 kilograms of drugs, in a deterrent effect on drug crimes and in commemoration of the ...