The electoral data points to a significant shift in loyalties. Voters who once largely backed the SAD moved towards the Congress and subsequently the AAP.

Police are now investigating the network's reach, particularly allegations that MDMA was being supplied to students in Nilambur and nearby areas.

The AAP is set to formally kick off its 2027 poll campaign a day after the Mann government announced an 8 per cent hike in DA for around eight lakh government employees

Gulzar Singh's death has pointed to major loopholes in the state's high-decibel campaign 'Yudh Nasheyan Virudh' (War On Drugs).

Former WWE champion Perry Saturn says drug addiction ended his wrestling career nearly a decade too soon. The veteran also reveals how he became homeless just eight months after his WWE release, losing everything while struggling with his addiction.

GLP-1 receptor agonists have transformed diabetes and obesity treatment, but high demand fuels a risky market for unapproved and counterfeit products.

Anthropic's head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirmed the startup's wet lab.

Leila Turner-Scott says her 19-year-old son Sam Nelson trusted ChatGPT like a friend before he died from a lethal overdose, which the chatbot said was safe. Now she's asking the US Congress who's responsible when a chatbot gives dangerously wrong advice.

Repeated hospitalisation can particularly affect older adults. Spending long periods in bed or being physically inactive during hospital stays may contribute to weakness and reduced mobility.

Last month, the ministry asked OTT platforms to prominently display the same warning during scenes depicting consumption or use of narcotic drugs.

Patient safety cannot be the responsibility of a single programme or department and needs to be embedded across the health system, particularly in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long-term management of noncommunicable diseases, a senior government official has said.

The latest trigger is the Centre's decision to classify six districts of Punjab as ultra-sensitive in terms of drug menace.

In an interview with NDTV, Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Tukaram Mundhe says two of the three actors have replied to the show-cause notices

Sahney said the alleged conversions were being driven by factors including superstition, claims of miraculous cures, and treatment of illnesses.

Misusing antibiotics can lead to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), in which microorganisms become resistant to medicines used to treat them. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections globally in 2023 was resistant to antibiotic treatment.

Thirty chairs sat empty at the Punjab BJP office. Each one had a name pinned to it, a young person the party says died because of drugs.

The FDA collected samples during routine testing, and the test results led to instructions to stop distribution and recall the affected stock. The medicines involved were paracetamol 500 mg and telmisartan 40 mg.

Fiji has declared a national HIV crisis as sexual transmission and illicit drug use help to spread the virus, now infecting an estimated one in 60 adults in the Pacific nation.

The Centre has proposed CCTV surveillance at licensed retail premises for prescription-drug sales, with recordings to be preserved for at least three months.

The controversies are unfolding against the backdrop of AAP's major political promise to tackle the drug menace in Punjab.

Donald Trump said that Venezuela should no longer be designated as having failed demonstrably to fulfill its drug control commitments.

Gulzar Singh, hailing from Turbanjara village in Dirba, died on September 7 after allegedly consuming poison. His family alleged that he was harassed and subjected to casteist slurs for questioning Cheema about the supply of drugs

Trump highlighted what he described as "historic progress" by his administration in tackling drug trafficking and narcoterrorist organisations.

The case came to light after the teenager allegedly escaped from the accused's captivity on September 10 and returned home.