Indian state launches assault on drugs as UN warns of Bangladesh-like crisis Indian state launches assault on drugs as UN warns of Bangladesh-like crisis World 13 Aug, 2021
Illegal ivory trade shrinks while pangolin trafficking booms, UN says VIENNA: The illegal global trade in ivory has shrunk while the trafficking of pangolins has soared, a UN report on wildlife crime based on four years' data said on Friday. National bans on selling ivory, particularly China's in 2017, appear to... Art & Culture 10 Jul, 2020
Home Minister stresses collaboration with community for preventing drug abuse KATHMANDU: Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa has stressed the need for collaboration with communities for the prevention and control of drug abuse. In a message of best wishes delivered on the occasion of International Day against Drug... Travel 26 Jun, 2020
Another opioid crisis is raging through the developing world KAPURTHALA: Reports rolled in with escalating urgency — pills seized by the truckload, pills swallowed by schoolchildren, pills in the pockets of dead terrorists. These pills, the world has been told, are safer than the OxyContins, the Vicodins,... Women 13 Dec, 2019
Police chase suspected kingpin of vast Asian meth syndicate BANGKOK: The largest ever task force assembled to fight organised crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that police say dominates the $70 billion-a-year... Women 14 Oct, 2019
Songbirds silenced as Colombia fights wildlife trafficking BOGOTA: The metal doors of a shoebox-sized cage open up and a bird tagged #811 launches into a giant aviary. The palm-sized finch performs a midair pirouette, lands on a willow branch and curiously twitches its saffron-coloured head sideways, as if... Women 14 Aug, 2019
A new high: Indigenous Thai farmers swap opium for coffee, land DOI TUNG: Somchai Sophonsookpaiboon does not remember much about his younger years, except that they were spent in an opium haze. It's how all the men in his mountain village on the Thai-Myanmar border spent their time. Stateless, with little... 15 May, 2019
Home Minister off to Austria KATHMANDU: Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa on Tuesday left here today on a six-day visit to Austria. MInister Thapa is leading a five-member Nepali delegation to the 62nd ministerial meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and... Travel 13 Mar, 2019
UN says methamphetamine output booming in Southeast Asia BANGKOK: The UN's anti-drug agency says production of methamphetamine is skyrocketing in Southeast Asia, with prices dropping and usage expanding.A report released Monday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that even as seizures of the... Women 11 Mar, 2019
Combatting modern slavery: Challenges and opportunities A recent report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that most of the victims detected across the world are females, mainly adult women, but also increasingly girls Modern slavery has been thrust on millions of people... 14 Feb, 2019
Indian police rescue 180 Nepalis in major anti-trafficking operation MUMBAI: Indian police have recently rescued more than 180 Nepali men and women in a major operation near the border with Myanmar after activists raised suspicions they were being trafficked into forced labour. Police in the northeast Indian...
