Two drug peddlers, including an African, were arrested from South West Delhi and 141 grams of cocaine, having a value of around 1.5 crore in the international market, seized from them, the police said on Friday.
In one of the biggest heroin seizures of this year amid the ongoing war against drugs, the Amritsar Rural Police has busted a cross-border smuggling racket with the arrest of a drug smuggler and recovered 30-kg heroin from his possession.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday revealed that law enforcement agencies across the country, including the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), seized narcotics worth Rs 25,330 crore in 2024.
In a major relief for patients battling cancer, chronic or other severe diseases, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that 36 lifesaving drugs and medicines will now be fully exempted from basic customs duty.
The operation, conducted at Star Cement Ltd. in Lumshnong, East Jaintia Hills district, was spearheaded by Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma along with the high-level and district-level Drug Disposal Committees of the Meghalaya Police.
Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after a raid at a courier delivery unit, police said.
The report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company, showed that anti-obesity medications are the industry trend that will have the greatest impact in the next 12 months.
Spurious drugs worth Rs 6.60 crore was seized by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), East Zone, and the Drugs Control Directorate, West Bengal from a whole premises in Kolkata.
The Central Drugs Laboratories identified 41 drug samples to be not of standard quality (NSQ), while State Drugs Testing Laboratories also found 70 drugs samples not of standard quality during the month of November, said Union Health Ministry on Friday.
The Delhi Customs said on Tuesday that a Brazilian national was apprehended for smuggling cocaine in the form of capsules inside his stomach at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
