Levies force have ramped up operations against poppy cultivation in Balochistan, eradicating 16 acres of the illegal crop in ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has had devastating consequences for Afghanistan's rural population. The Taliban have yet to ...

In a major blow to the illegal opium trade, the Manipur Police and the Forest Department have seized and destroyed 55 acres ...

Opium production in Myanmar has fallen for the first time since a military coup in 2021, the UN said Thursday, but the ...

The Jharkhand Police have launched a massive crackdown on illegal opium cultivation across the state, and in the past 15 days, over 100 acres of poppy crops have been destroyed under a special ...

Depth, Sreeparna Banerjee, Associate Research Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), delves into the escalating ...

Opium production in Myanmar has fallen for the first time since a military coup in 2021, the UN said today, but the country ...

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

(MENAFN- IANS) Ranchi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Jharkhand Police have launched a massive crackdown on illegal opium cultivation across the state, and in the past 15 days, over 100 acres of poppy crops ...

BANGKOK — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

Parts of Shan state in the east, which produces around 80 per cent of the crop, have been embroiled in fighting in 2024, which the Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 says has pushed many poppy farmers to ...