Drug Abuse

Sambalpur: Ahead of Holi, police have recently busted an illegal cough syrup racket and arrested 26 persons in this connection in Odisha's Sambalpur. According to police sources, a truck carrying...

Bhubaneswar: Being smart is one thing but trying to be 'over smart' can give the game away, especially if you are a law violator. Notorious drug trafficker Sambhunath Barik (31)...

Mumbai: It’s been four days since television actress Tunisha Sharma was found hanging in the make-up room on the sets of her show ‘Ali Baba Daastan-E-Kabul’. Even as a full-fledged...

As per statistics released by Odisha Police on November 11, 2022, enforcement officials seized ganja worth Rs 290.24 crore in the first 10 months of the year – a substantial...

Balasore: The Special Task force (STF) sleuths of Odisha police on Thursday apprehended an inter-state drug peddler with over 1.3 kg brown sugar in Balasore district. According to police sources,...

Rayagada: Excise sleuths seized 4.5 tonne ganja valued at around Rs 2.5 crore and arrested two persons in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Thursday while the contraband was being smuggled to...

Bhubaneswar: Excise officials have seized brown sugar worth over Rs 28 lakh in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar and arrested one person. The accused, arrested during an operation on Saturday, has been...

Baripada: The owner of a de-addiction centre has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and humiliating a physically challenged inmate and forcing him to lick his feet in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district....

Bhubaneswar: Voice of SOA Community 90.4, the community radio centre of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, conducted a programme to create social awareness against drug abuse. SOA Radio...

New Delhi: The Central government has no plan to decriminalise personal consumption of drugs, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Choudhary informed Parliament in a written statement on the first...