Kawal Deep Kour’s Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the Present unearths a fascinating history that intertwines colonial ...

Escaping persecution in Baghdad, David Sassoon arrived in Mumbai and built an empire of trade, philanthropy, and architecture ...

Simply severing the supply chain is not sufficient, the challenge is also to curb the demand for the drug. Read more at ...

From 2011 to 2024, China's defense budget surged by 76%. In 2023 alone, military spending hit 1.55 trillion yuan (roughly ...

Alexander the Great’s army may have introduced Anatolian opium into Iran, a history implicit in the linguistic connections between Greek opion, Persian afyun and Indian afeem. Mercantile networks ...

Previously, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly claimed that she and former prime minister Justin Trudeau had "asked for ...

On Navroz today, we speak to Parsi fashion designers about the evolution and modernisation of Parsi clothing style over the ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police burned 7.5 tons of illicit drugs in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday, provincial police spokesman Mullah ...

Illegal fentanyl supplies are largely produced in China and Mexico and then smuggled into the United States. Opioids, a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy plant, can be divided into two ...

The Taliban remain firmly in control, with no serious internal or external threats to their authority. Their unity and ...

The darkening rule of the Taliban regime over Afghanistan continues to dim prospect women's rights as well as any chances for the war-torn country to overcome an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

The distinguished author talks about the Tempi tragedy, the Trump-Musk duo..."one is worse than the other" and the Left, ...