145 drugs samples identified as not of standard quality in Feb
As many as 145 drugs samples were identified as not of standard quality (NSQ) during the month of February.
As many as 145 drugs samples were identified as not of standard quality (NSQ) during the month of February.
Three people, including two Thailand nationals, were apprehended in two separate cases of smuggling of gold and drugs at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Customs officials said on Thursday.
Afghan police discovered more than 50 kg of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in western Afghanistan Nimroz province, the provincial director for counter-narcotics department Mawlawi Faiz Mohammad Faizani said Friday.
Officials of the West Bengal Directorate of Drug Control (WBDDC) along with police seized spurious drugs worth around Rs 17 lakh from a godown, storing medicines in the Amta police station area of Howrah district on Friday.
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.
