A joint team comprising the police, excise department, and agriculture department launched a massive operation, resulting in ...

RANCHI: For the first time in Jharkhand, drones are being used in mapping of opium cultivation and destroying them by the ...

India’s biggest opium factory is located at Ghazipur ... MNREGA can be continued in perpetuity without foundational changes ...

Because freebies are given, structural reform of the economy does not take place; and because such essential reform does not ...

While cultivation has decreased, opium farming still exists in some areas, with ongoing challenges in law enforcement and the socio-economic conditions that perpetuate the trade.

Photo from Sayyed, Khot and Purkayastha (2025) As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature emerged from some nearby rocks to hunt. Its “large” brown eyes scanned ...

The Chief Minister expressed his support for the anti-drug crackdown, saying that over 25 acres of poppy fields, a major source of illicit opium production ... around 170 bighas (over 56 acres) of ...