 | 4,700 opium plants on 31 acre destroyed during joint raidsSources said acting on a tip off, the Excise officials led by Rourkela-based superintendent Sheikh Asaf Ali along with police and forest officials walked 10 km to the spot through hostile terrains. |
 | How cannabis in Himachal's hills is turning phirangs into localsThe snow-capped mountains and gushing brooks of Himachal seem straight out of a Tennyson poem but there’s a stark side to this seeming serenity: ever-increasing drug cultivation and abuse. |
