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Khammam Excise officers seized marijuana worth ₹11 crore over the past year, making them the top-performing district in Telangana in terms of drug enforcement. In 2024, the Telangana Excise department seized a total of about 6,000 kilograms of marijuana, with Khammam alone accounting for 2,225 kilograms, said an official release. Khammam Excise police achieved these…
The United States has designated eight Latin American criminal and drug-trafficking groups as “global terrorist organisations” amid escalating rhetoric from President Donald Trump. In a Federal Register notice filed on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, without offering details, that the groups have committed or pose a risk of committing “acts of terrorism that…
SCR’s RPF has rescued 91 children, including 70 boys and 21 girls, lost/separated from their families and later handed them over to the child welfare committees last month. Another six boys and seven girls were saved from over 14 traffickers, said an official release on Saturday. It also arrested 34 offenders and recovered stolen property…
Marco Ebben was one of Europe’s ‘most wanted fugitives’ for smuggling drugs from Brazil to the Netherlands. A convicted drug kingpin from the Netherlands – considered one of Europe’s most wanted criminals – has been killed in a gun battle in Mexico. Marco Ebben, 32, was shot dead in Atizapan de Zaragoza, a municipality 25km…
Singer Masoom Sharma is the first artist to join the campaign. | Photo Credit: special arrangement The fight against the drug menace has hit a new note in Haryana, with popular singers being engaged in a unique ‘bucket challenge’. The Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau’s (HSNCB) ‘Nasha Mukt Nayaab Jeevan Bucket Challenge’ seeks to distinguish…
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and family members who own the company have agreed to pay up to $7.4bn in a new settlement to end lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James says. The deal announced on Thursday represents an increase of more than $1bn over a previous…
A man was caught with cocaine and MDMA worth ₹8 lakh in his possession by the West Zone Task Force team and the Masab Tank Police. The accused, identified as 27-year-old Jhawar Kishan Gopal, a resident of Banjara Hills, and proprietor of a plastic business, reportedly turned to drug dealing due to financial difficulties stemming…
Odisha, India – Ajay Rout is an Indigenous farmer in a remote village in a southern district of India’s Odisha state. The village is surrounded by forest and hills with the nearest market 10km (6.2 miles) away. The 34-year-old grows sweetcorn and vegetables on his 0.2 hectares (0.5 acres) for both his family to eat and…
