According to home ministry and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials, all the 14 zonal directors of the NCB have been told to identify drug kingpins in India so that the chain of distribution is smashed at the top. read more

The Coast Guard, in a coordinated sea-air operation on Thursday, apprehended the ship off the Car Nicobar islands. read more

NCB says the gang had been operating in Delhi, Punjab and Mumbai with links in Australia and Canada read more

Two days later, another consignment with 25kg of heroin was recovered from a room in Naigaon owned by Oberoi’s stepson, which was kept there at the behest of Mohan. read more

The arrested accused have been identified as Nofar Samual Enoamons, 26, and Boateng Sunday Ghanajan, 28. The victim and the accused are residents of Kalina, Santacruz (East), and knew each other. read more

According to home ministry officials, a joint coordination committee, formed only last month under NCB director general Rakesh Asthana, met on Wednesday for the first time to discuss ways to curb the drug trade. According to estimates, India is abusing... read more

The appointment comes at a time when drug problem in several states, especially in Punjab, has assumed alarming proportions read more

Doctors retrieved drug \u20B93 crore from Venezuelan salesgirl after six-day procedure read more

Hemendra Singh, assistant inspector general, CISF, said on Tuesday that around 11.45 pm one of the CISF officers intercepted a woman who had arrived at the Delhi airport in order to travel to Johannesburg via Addis Ababa. read more

On the morning of May 10, NCB raided and recovered 1,818kg of pseudoephedrine and 1.9kg of cocaine from a house in Sector P4, which was rented out to two Nigerians read more

Officials said they had been smuggling the drugs through courier services and international passengers. read more

Madhav Singh, zonal director, NCB, said the seizure is India’s biggest-ever narcotics haul and the world’s largest pseudoephedrine seizure in the past three years. read more

Government post offices are convenient because parcels are not scanned and the documents of receivers and senders are rarely verified, said a NCB official. read more

With a profusion of courier and delivery firms all across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, drugs that are camouflaged as everyday products like sweets and talcum powder, can be moved through the city without being detected. read more

Irfan Khan, a Bachelor of pharmacy (B Pharm) graduate, was arrested on February 21 for allegedly sending psychotropic drugs in the form of tablets to the United States of America and Australia. read more