Tag: Drug menace

“Amritpal working to save people from drug menace,” says Khalistan sympathiser’s father

After Khalistan sympathiser and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was arrested by Punjab Police, the father of the radical preacher Tarsem Singh said Amritpal was working to save people from the drug menace in the State.

April 23, 2023

Himachal Guv stresses on fighting drug menace in the state

Shiv Pratap Shukla called upon the people of the state to cooperate at every level so that the youth could be saved from falling prey to drug abuse.

March 14, 2023

Himachal education minister calls for joint efforts to curb drug menace

Rohit Thakur directed the Education Department to make necessary policy changes in education system.

March 4, 2023

CM calls for 3-pronged strategy to free Punjab from drug menace

Bhagwant Mann directed officers to accelerate ‘enforcement, de-addiction and prevention’ to make the state drug-free.

February 3, 2023

Drug menace: Shah calls for coordinated fight by Centre, states

The drug menace was destroying generations and the profits being made from the drugs were being utilised for terrorism as well, the Union Home Minister claimed while replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha.

December 21, 2022

‘BJP is the natural option’

A1985-batch former Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, Jagmohan Singh Raju (59), joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Punjab before the February 2022 Assembly polls after 35 years of service.

October 29, 2022

AAP alleges previous govts failed to check drug menace

Addressing a Press conference, chief spokesperson Manwinder Singh Kang said the AAP government has successfully managed to curtail the flow of drugs into the state by arresting drug lords in the past four months.

July 14, 2022

Punjab Police arrested 676 drug smugglers in a week

5.57 kilogram (kg) heroin, 17 kg opium, 25 kg ganja, seven quintals of poppy husk, and 2.25 lakh intoxicant pills among other drugs were recovered in cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas and installing check-posts on vulnerable routes across the state.

July 11, 2022

Special Task Force in Himachal to combat the drug menace

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launched an initiative of the department of State Taxes and Excise and HP Nasha Niwaran Board to curb drug trafficking, ‘Nasha Nahin, Zindagi Chunne’.

June 26, 2022

AAP govt will eradicate drug menace from Punjab, take stern against drug mafia: Bhagwant Mann

"Why did Congress leaders not hold dharnas in front of the houses of former CM Amarinder Singh and incumbent CM Charanjit Singh Channi? Why did the Congress government not act on the report of the Special Investigation Team?,"

February 24, 2022

Govt. must tackle drug abuse

"Due to the pressure maintained by us, nearly 3,000 cases under the NDPS Act have been registered in the past three years and more than 900 peddlers arrested. The police in Jammu district arrested more than 500 peddlers during 2019"

December 18, 2021

Twin cities’ police step up vigil to end drug menace as Rs 10 crore worth drugs seized in 2021

In the current year, brown sugar weighing 10 KGs was seized in separate interceptions in both the cities and 66 drug peddlers were behind the bars.

October 10, 2021

HP Guv calls for concrete policy to curb drug menace

A video song composed by HP Police for creating awareness among youth on drug abuse was also showcased.

October 9, 2021

Punjab CM seeks all-round support to end drug menace

Asserting his government's zero tolerance to drugs, the Chief Minister attributed the problem to the strong nexus among smugglers, gangsters and terrorists to promote narco-terrorism in the state, as well as Pakistan.

June 26, 2021

Himachal Drug problem: Herculean task ahead

The state's drug problem is very different from Punjab and a multi-pronged approach is needed to tackle it.

November 19, 2018

Drugs worth Rs 22 cr seized in Sirsa in 5 months

While stating this on Wednesday, a spokesman of Haryana Police said that during the past five and half months, 250 cases were registered and 409 people arrested on the charge of possessing drugs in the district.

October 11, 2018

BJP non-serious in tackling drug menace in HP: Cong

Addressing a Congress rally organised at the industrial hub, Baddi on Tuesday, HPCC president Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu hitting out on the state government, said that so far as many as 10 persons have committed suicide owing to drug addiction.

October 10, 2018