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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicDrug Abuse

Topic: Drug Abuse

Punjab to launch first-ever evidence-based anti-drug curriculum for Classes 9 to 12

The 27-week curriculum, developed with Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s J-PAL, uses interactive sessions, films, quizzes & group activities to debunk myths & tackle peer pressure.

California doctor pleads guilty in Matthew Perry’s 2023 overdose death, faces up to 40 yrs in prison

Plasencia admitted to injecting the actor with ketamine at his home and in a parked car, not for legitimate medical use, and supplying the drug illegally.

Haryana’s chief of Narcotics Control Bureau launches podcast to counter drug menace

OP Singh, the Director General of Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau, has started a podcast to highlight the police's efforts to fight drug abuse and trafficking.

UAE deports narcotics case accused Kubbawala Mustafa to Mumbai via Interpol, announces CBI

Mustafa was put on Interpol Red Notice after police busted a facility producing mephedrone in Maharashtra’s Sangli, which he allegedly ran from abroad.

Curious case of Zubair Bhat: Kashmiri youth’s mysterious death in Delhi, flashpoint in Srinagar

Family alleges torture and discrimination by Delhi Police, latter deny arresting him or even questioning him in any case.

God’s own country is high on MDMA. Kerala school, college students flood rehabs

Police, politicians and priests have amped up their efforts in recent months. From Operation D-Hunt to Operation Clean Slate, the state has intensified drug raids, crackdowns and seizures.

Beatings, forced labour, starvation—Haryana rehab centres are torture chambers

Drug rehabilitation has become a new sunrise sector in Haryana. Private centres are a money-making machine, while many families see them as a way to offload their struggling loved ones.

NCB, Delhi Police bust Noida drug factory ‘linked to Mexican cartel, set up by Tihar warden’

Cops seized around 95 kg of methamphetamine from factory in Noida. NCB officials said Mexican Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación vetted drugs produced.

Year after Matthew Perry death, spotlight on ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha, set to stand trial in 2025

Sangha charged with supplying the ketamine that killed the Friends star. She has pleaded not guilty. Her bail was revoked after a judge deemed her a flight risk & danger to community.

Why Punjab has invoked a 36-yr-old law for the 1st time to crack down on drug lords, and how it works

Officials of Punjab Police's anti-narcotics task force say idea was to detain drug traffickers who have multiple cases registered against them under NDPS Act but were out on bail.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.