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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicWar on drugs

Topic: war on drugs

Colombia suspends intelligence sharing with US

Reuters -
President Gustavo Petro has ordered Colombian public security forces to stop sharing intelligence until the US stops attacking boats in the Caribbean.

At COP30, California Governor Newsom criticizes US’ ‘chilling’ strikes on alleged drug vessels

Reuters -
When asked about the strikes at the climate summit in Brazil, Newsom said, 'What happened to due process? What happened to the rule of law?'

Trump wants to control ‘unruly’ regimes—so he launched a war on Venezuela

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Like drug wars in the past, Trump’s efforts are likely to deepen the chaos in Central America—exposing the US to greater danger.

End of 3-month anti-drug push, Punjab DGP says battle won but war continues; Oppn calls it ‘ceasefire’

Chitleen K Sethi -
DGP Yadav told media in Chandigarh that Punjab police had been ‘largely victorious’ in restricting spread of drugs in the state but the war on drugs will continue.

DRI seizes drugs worth Rs 245 cr from Haryana, Karnataka in ongoing crackdown on syndicates

Sukriti Vats -
Drugs caught were ephedrine and heroin; the anti-smuggling agency has confiscated Rs 19,800 crore of drugs in 2021-22.

Mexico moves to legalise cannabis use — it can de-escalate drug war

Luis Gomez Romero -
According to a 2016 study, Mexican cartels made up to $2 trillion from cannabis sales in the US – between 15% and 26% of their total income.

How an Akali govt order on dope tests never saw the light of day in Punjab

Chitleen K Sethi -
Much before CM Amarinder Singh’s mandatory drug test move, his predecessor Parkash Singh Badal had issued a similar order in 2014.

Hit by drugs epidemic, Punjab will go black this week to protest against ‘white menace’

Nikhil Rampal -
The movement has been triggered by the recent viral videos showing the toll drug abuse is taking on the state’s youth. New Delhi: People in Punjab...

Punjab’s losing war on drugs as tough narcotics law is punishing, not reforming, addicts

Roshan Kishore, HT -
A report by Vidhi Center for Legal Policy has said that the NDPS Act has failed to meet its twin objectives of deterrence and...

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Opinion

TV reporters wandered through Delhi blast debris like a Sunday market. ‘Oh, there’s a hand’

Shailaja Bajpai -
Most TV channels called it a 'car blast' and then used 'terror attack' without explicitly calling it that— 'Terror angle being investigated.'

Bring odd-even back in Delhi. It has healing properties

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

Snehesh Alex Philip -
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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