Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Tuesday said Pakistan is gifting drug addiction to the youth of the Union Territory just like the neighbouring country did with Punjab at the end of militancy.

Days after a video of a young man allegedly under the influence of illegal drugs in Punjab's Amritsar went viral on social media, another video of a young man in a stupor as he just stood on the road, has emerged from the Sikh holy city.

A Special Task Force formed by the state government of Punjab in 2017 aims to fight the problem of drugs in the state and has made an unprecedented progress in the last three years

Drug addiction menace has been haunting Punjab for several years and so to curb the drug crisis, the state government, NGOs and private organisations have been undertaking various measures

Due to various steps taken by the state government to contain the drug abuse problem in the state, over 42,000 people have been arrested and about 1,000 kilograms of heroin has been seized since 2017

A woman in Amritsar has kept her daughter chained at home to keep her from taking drugs, as the Punjab government struggles to curb drug abuse in the state.

Drugs are a national problem, the Second Joint Conference of Chief Ministers of the northern states on Thursday agreed and decided to set up a joint working group, involving officials of the Health and Social Justice Departments of all states, to share experiences and best practices in their respective campaigns against the drug problem.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday informed Chief Minister Amarinder Singh that the central government was formulating a detailed strategy to tackle the problem of drugs in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

Faced with criticism from several quarters over alleged spate of deaths due to drug overdose in the state, Punjab cabinet today decided to recommend to the Centre death penalty for drug peddlers and smugglers.

The problem of drug menace in Punjab came under the scanner of the Rajya Sabha today with members raising questions over the "alarming" number of such cases. Congress demanded a CBI probe into allegations against ministers of the ruling SAD-BJP combine in the state.

The problem of drug menace in Punjab came under the scanner of Rajya Sabha today with members raising questions over the "alarming" number of such cases, with Congress demanding CBI probe into allegations against ministers of the ruling SAD-BJP combine in the state.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly murdering his mother after she refused to give him money to buy drugs, police said.

Slamming the opposition for "defaming" hard working Punjabis by labelling them as "drug addicts", Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday claimed the magnitude of the drug problem in the state was "much less than in many other states of the country".

Slamming the opposition for "defaming" hard working Punjabis by labelling them as "drug addicts", Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today claimed the magnitude of the drug problem in the state was "much less than in many other states of the country".

Nearly 600 injecting drug users visit the Tarn Taran civil hospital in Punjab every day for Opioid replacement therapy (ORT), a harm reduction strategy which helps clients keep off injecting drugs, reducing risk of blood borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B. The doses of crushed buprenorphine are supervised as clients could divert the tablets and inject them instea...

Punjab's crackdown on drug supply in Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts have had little impact on the real kingpins of the business, people who have fallen prey to the habit say.

There are tell tale signs that injecting drug use has crept into cities and villages of Uttar Pradesh.

The film Udta Punjab can be released with only one cut, the Bombay High Court today told the Censor Board. The court wants only one scene of involving urination to be cut and the disclaimer modified.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi leads a protest in Punjab's Jalandhar today highlighting drug abuse and the "collapse" of law and order in the state.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said his party can end the drug problem in Punjab in one month if it is voted to power in the elections next year, accusing the ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance of fostering the illegal trade in the state.

Amid the debate whether the film "Udta Punjab" defines reality of the drug problem in Punjab, NDTV did a reality check and found that getting high on drugs of various kinds was not a challenge in Amritsar, even on the premises of the city's largest government hospital.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today vowed to finish the drug menace in the state and pledged his support to 'Udta Punjab' film.

The BJP has denied any hand in stopping the release of Anurag Kashyap's Udta Punjab through the Censor Board. The party also slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's allegations on the Centre and said the Aam Aadmi Party survives by creating such controversies and claimed that Punjab has no drug problem, which the movie is based on.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that his party will eradicate the drugs problem in months if it comes to power in Punjab.