Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each ...

A dramatic drug bust in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district sees police seizing 407 kg of opium poppy husk from a fleeing ...

As the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, many had hoped that the departure would also mean the dismantling of the global drug trade funnelled through the region. There was cautious optimism ...

Authorities also confiscated 1,609 bottles, 48,982 capsules, 3,152 injectable narcotics, over 95,000 tablets, and 128 kg of ...

Drug dealers from the southern poppy-growing provinces of Kandahar and ... yields around twice the quantity of drug per acre as opium poppies and requires less investment. The U.N. drug report ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because ... the raw ingredient in heroin, providing about 80 percent of the global crop. Crop sales fund ...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders have strongly opposed Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring's statement ...

The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum ... with extracted opium often refined into heroin. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime describes illicit drugs as a major challenge for Iran due ...

Sumita Misra, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, urged people to use the MANAS helpline, a 24/7 confidential call service ...