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TopicDrug smuggling

Topic: Drug smuggling

The US-China dispute over fentanyl drug & why Japan is caught in the crossfire

Fentanyl is considered a major driver of the US opioid crisis. US-China conflict stems from allegations that Beijing insufficiently regulates exports of precursor chemicals for fentanyl.

All about Shawn Bhinder, ‘drug lord’ who gave FBI the slip, now in custody of Punjab Police

A team of Tarn Taran police arrested Shawn, a resident of Brampton in Canada and native of Mandiala village in Punjab's Batala, Sunday night. 

Fentanyl precursors labelled as Vit C, shipped to US, then Mexico. Inside US indictment of 2 Surat firms

Raxuter Chemicals & Athos Chemicals have been charged with criminal conspiracy. Part of probe also involved undercover agents posing as buyers, striking a deal with Raxuter founder.

Indian Police probe Elon Musk’s Starlink’s role in $4.25 billion meth seizure at Andaman and Nicobar

The inquiry comes as Starlink nears its India launch, after months of lobbying for satellite spectrum amid opposition from billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who pushed for spectrum auctions.

‘Framed’ in drug case, Sadak 2 actor Chrisann Perreira to come home in ’15-20 days’ after release in Sharjah

Pereira, who was arrested for 'opium possession', is waiting for legal proceedings to conclude. She was allegedly framed by a Mumbai baker, Paul Anthony, in an ‘act of revenge’.   

Meth manufacturing drugs worth Rs 390 cr seized in Mizoram, probe suggests trafficking to Myanmar

Assam Rifles and the Mizoram customs department seized 39,04,000 triprolidine and pseudoephedrine tablets which act as precursors in manufacturing of addictive crystal methamphetamine.

Pakistani drones nearly double at Punjab border –drugs, arms, explosives. BSF ups its counter

As many as 266 drone incidents recorded until November this year. Smugglers from Pakistan use drones mainly to send heroin. BSF trying to deter with patrols & interception units.

Mundra Port drug haul: NIA raids multiple locations including private club in Delhi’s Samrat

Probing seizure of 3,000 kg of heroin from Gujarat's Mundra Port last September, NIA has filed a chargesheet and made 10 arrests in connection with the case.

8 years in US prison, ‘drug hauls, money laundering’: The murky past of Paradiso’s Ashok Solomon

The 75-year-old — acquitted in all except a money laundering case filed by ED — is out on bail, but is now ‘under probe’ in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

From first seeds sown by traders to tribals’ cash crop: How Andhra became a ganja hub

The state has a history of ganja cultivation spanning at least 4 decades. On Saturday, Andhra police burned seized stock of 2 lakh kg as part of ‘Operation Parivarthana’.

On Camera

60% shareholder battles in India are settled or withdrawn. It’s the model corporate law

The design of India’s oppression and mismanagement regime balances the dual objectives of corporate law: protecting minority shareholders and curtailing opportunistic use.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.