Priyanshu Painyuli reunites with the cult creators of Mirzapur for his most intense role in Paan Parda Zarda. He says it ...

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two alleged members of an international drug trafficking syndicate and recovered more than 4.420 kilogram of opium from their possession here, ...

Opium worth Rs 1.5 crore was seized and six persons were arrested during simultaneous raids in three different parts of Hazaribag district of Jharkhand, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, ...

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Poon Wung, a jolly man, "sleek and fat," was the owner of the laundromat, a front for a “hop hung,” or opium den. Inside the shack’s front door was an empty room, and a curtain hiding the ...

In one of the most natural partnerships in recent memory, Playboi Carti’s Opium has linked up with Pelle Pelle for a collaboration that’s sure to further extend MUSIC’s dominance.

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

Indeed, the text accompanying Sherwill’s illustrations speak of 39,870 opium balls drying, with an estimated value of 119,610 pounds sterling in the balling room and 300,000 opium cakes in the ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...