Tag: drug smuggling
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Taliban confirms prisoner swap with US
Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday confirmed that the Taliban has freed an American engineer.
September 19, 2022 -
Tighten noose around drug smugglers, gangsters: Punjab DGP
Yadav also ordered CPs and SSPs to prioritise the arrest of all the proclaimed offenders (POs), bail jumpers and absconders of NDPS cases.
July 26, 2022 -
12 kg heroin dropped ‘by Pakistani drone’ recovered in Jammu
Three peddlers belonging to Punjab have been arrested from the city's Narwal area in connection with possession of heroin worth about Rs.24 crore in the international market.
July 26, 2022 -
First Narco Coordination Center meet on drug menace in Ladakh
At the meeting intelligence, police, NCB and other state agencies were told to coordinate each other in monitoring the smuggling routes.
April 30, 2022 -
Ladakh to plug Kashmir, HP drug smuggling routes
Intelligence agencies, police, NCB and other agencies were told to coordinate in plugging the smuggling routes.
April 30, 2022 -
Amritsar Police busts an international drug smuggling network
Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Vikram Jeet Duggal said that the police are carrying out further investigations to unravel the international drug supply network operating in the state.
September 14, 2021 -
HP to have training module for teachers, parents
With almost 112 cases of drug smuggling registered every month in Himachal Pradesh, the government is now mulling to train teachers and parents to prevent youth from falling prey to the menace. As per the information tabled in HP Assembly, the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) would prepare training module for parents …
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September 4, 2018 -
Gateway to drugs ignored by four states in their fight plan
Jammu and Kashmir may have become a virtual gateway to drugs, but its cause to control the malaise is not expected to get help following its exclusion by a group of four other northern states which came together to fight drug menace. The Chief Ministers of Haryana, Punjab, Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh have reportedly decided …
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August 22, 2018 -
Australian woman sentenced to death for drug smuggling
A 54-year-old Australian woman has been sentenced to death by hanging after a Malaysian court unanimously overturned a 2017 acquittal of drug smuggling charges. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto’s lawyers said a three-judge panel unanimously threw out the previous ruling. “An appeal will be filed in the Federal Court — the final appeal,” Exposto’s lawyer Muhamed …
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May 24, 2018 -
Punjab police arrest a JK cop for drug smuggling
Breaking a supply chain of drug smuggling in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Punjab police on Thursday arrested a Jammu and Kashmir police personnel allegedly involved in drug trafficking in both the states. The Ludhiana police have arrested Mohammed Rafiq who is police personnel at Badgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, with 35 …
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December 7, 2017 -
British Royal Navy seizes drugs worth $515 million in five months
Britain’s Royal Navy sailors have completed a five-month drug-smuggling operation in the Gulf region and Indian Ocean during which narcotics worth $515 million were seized, the Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday. The ministry said since April, British, French, US and Australian warships in a Combined Task Force have taken part in Operation Southern Surge …
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August 21, 2017