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TopicDrug trafficking

Topic: Drug trafficking

Matriarch, courier & ‘nanad-bhabhi’ syndicate. Origin stories of women running Delhi’s drug trade

From selling high-quality hashish and MDMA to heroin and cocaine, women are now an indistinguishable part of the drug trade in Delhi, working as couriers and even running syndicates.

Haryana has no patience for woke narrative on drug abuse and trade. It’s a war

Haryana is hunting down traffickers, dismantling networks, and breaking the cycle of addiction before it takes hold. Take your poison elsewhere—in Haryana, the game is over.

Punjabi gangsters ferrying drugs, separatist terror to US an old story. Bishnoi, ‘Khatri’ not the first

Since Anmol Bishnoi was arrested this week in US, investigators are working to unpack a complex web of crime involving trafficking of migrants, drug cartels, assassins & Sikh separatists.

In ‘Udta Kullu’, villagers destroy 15 hectares of cannabis plants ‘on deity’s command’

Armed with sickles, and ‘divine intervention’, villagers from Kullu's Kothi Sari valley uprooted cannabis plants after their local goddess 'told them' it would end dry spell in region.

NCB arrests former DMK member Jaffer Sadiq in Rs 2,000 cr international drug trafficking case

According to the NCB, Sadiq was the 'mastermind and kingpin' of a network spread between India, Australia, and New Zealand. The DMK in Tamil Nadu has recently expelled Sadiq.

Vietnam court sentences 9 people to death for one of country’s largest drug trafficking cases

They were found guilty of trafficking 105 kg (231.49 lb) of methamphetamine and heroine from Laos to Vietnam from 2021 until early 2022 when the ring was busted.

After crackdown on drug trafficking gangs, Ecuador reels from fresh wave of violence

This highlights challenges ahead for President Noboa, who took power in Nov after pledging to curb violence as drug trafficking gangs increasingly transport cocaine through Ecuador.

India still on US’s list of 23 major drug transit or producing nations, China back after 18 yrs

In a memorandum Friday, President Joe Biden identifies the countries, calls for cooperation from nations with large chemical & pharma industries. India on list since past few decades.

Afghan, Pakistan cartels survived empires. Now they are drowning Indian Ocean region in drugs

Like their colonial-era ancestors, smugglers are the economic backbone of impoverished communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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.

On Camera

The Bengal Files has made sure Kolkata dusts history books to find out real Gopal Mukherjee

Whether it is due to the alleged unofficial ban on The Bengal Files or allegations by Gopal Mukherjee’s family against Agnihotri, everyone in the state wants to know more about Mukherjee.

Punjab’s paddy farmers are staring at big losses. Why flood impact may spill out of India’s rice bowl

As devastated farmers begin to come to terms with the fallout, 4 lakh hectares of land under paddy cultivation across state is flooded. Punjab is among the biggest contributors to PDS.

Army chief weighs in on theaterisation, says it is inevitable and need of the hour

New Delhi: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has strongly backed the idea of theaterisation, saying it is inevitable and the need of the hour. Speaking...

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?