Cartels

Gujarat Prime Target For Pakistan & Kashmir-Based Drug Cartels

Gujarat has become a prime target for drug cartels operating from Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, warns the state's Narcotics// Control Bureau (NCB). "Gujarat has always been a transit point for illegal drug consignments orginating from the infamous 'Golden Crescent' countries including Iran, ...

Will Face Masks Protect Against Swine Flu?

...in Mexico may become difficult to get if Mexican workers are ill, or their plants are closed. Additionally, masks could become the target of the drug cartels operating in Mexico if the demand becomes great enough. "It's very important that we have our own supply of masks here in the USA. We will cont...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

...have undoubtedly spurred this nefarious trade, giving rise to powerful drug cartels around the world. Illicit drugs without question have lent a blow t...to learn lessons of co-operation, cohesiveness and networking from the drug cartels themselves! ...

Tobacco Smugglers are Helping Terrorists: WHO

... outfits and India too could be affected soon, a top official //of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. "We know that international drug cartels have some links with terrorists but now proofs are emerging of illegal tobacco smugglers' links with terrorist outfits. Security agencies in the Europ...

Spurious Drugs is a Leading Cause of Casualties Among Drug Users

...ed less than one percent of these drugs,' a senior Delhi Police official said. Most dangerous of these impure drugs is 'synthetic heroin'. 'Drug cartels operating in India manufacture it locally by mixing crushed tablets of paracetamol and diazepam, and sprinkling it with morphine,' the NCB official ex...

Drugs Part of Mumbai High Life

...icking in both Mumbai and Delhi, according to police officials. "The detention of six Nigerian nationals in Delhi only reaffirms that the drug cartels are increasingly using foreign students studying in Mumbai and Delhi, mainly Sudanese, Nigerians and Kenyans as dealers and couriers to smuggle coca...