RANCHI: The Jharkhand Police has adopted a unique initiative to check opium cultivation among the state's rural population, ...

BARIPADA: A joint operation by police, forest, excise, and revenue officials has uncovered and destroyed illegal opium cultivation worth approximately Rs 60 lakh in Similipal National Park’s ...

Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and ...

The other flows from opium trafficking supported ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads, irrigation canals, silos, and ...

Aurangabad: Aurangabad police launched a massive drive against illegal opium cultivation and destroyed crops over 7 acres of land. Sources said the Maoists are engaging in large-scale opium ...

Ensure that the opium crops are destroyed by deploying a sufficient number of earthmovers and tractors, and lodge named FIRs against those involved in the illegal farming," the DM instructed the ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.