poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Chandigarh: As part of its ongoing war against drugs under "Yudh Nashian Virudh" campaign, the Punjab police on Friday ...

And heroin made from Afghan opium still accounts for 95% of the European ... By October, weeks before the next poppy planting season began, drug prices in Afghanistan had “soared”.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin, and the ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

In a crackdown on drug trafficking, the CIA staff have arrested three individuals in two separate cases and recovered opium and heroin from their possession. The arrests were made under the ...

The police have arrested three persons and seized 2.60 kg of opium and 105 gm of heroin in separate cases. The CIA staff of the Ludhiana police commissionerate arrested a man carrying 45-gm heroin.

The Amritsar rural police have confiscated 775 gm of heroin, 250 gm of opium and Rs 12.10 lakh of drug money from five persons in different cases here. The Mehta police have arrested Jogpreet ...

The contraband, which includes 200 kg hashish, 40 kg opium poppy, and other raw materials used in manufacturing heroin, was discovered during a series of recent operations in parts of the province ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer ... growing the substance – the core ingredient in heroin – but said the income is the only thing ...

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ... sending heroin and opium seizures down by 50 per cent in ...

Punjab Police on Tuesday arrested 71 drug smugglers and recovered 1.8 kg heroin, 4.9 kg opium, 13362 intoxicant capsules/tablets and Rs 9000 drug money from their possession. "With the war against ...