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Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh expressed concern over drug addiction among the Sikh youth and the use of unfair means during examinations in schools and colleges. "Drugs, liquor and copying have become the main hurdles in the progress of the Sikh community. We have always been a...

Punjab emerging as major drug producing centre Party drugs, such as Ecstasy, being made locally, says Narcotics Bureau Sanjeev Singh Bariana Tribune News Service Chandigarh, March 12 From a transit point for supply of drugs, Punjab is now emerging as a major drug...

DRUG RAIDS: Indian sting busts up $130-million drug and money laundering ring with links to Canada Various methods are used to import heroin into Canada. Particularly in the case of air passengers, an array of concealment methods are utilized, including smuggling them in modified...

Drug epidemic grips India’s Punjab state Simon Denyer - THE WASHINGTON POST - Tuesday, January 1, 4:10 AM MAQBOOLPURA, India — A boy just 12 years old was offering opium and hashish on a scrubby patch of land outside this village on a recent day. His cellphone rang incessantly as he...

Punjab to fight drug addiction jointly with Art of Living Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:40 - Monika Malik - Chandigarh The Punjab Government will soon launch a joint venture with the Art of Living Foundation — a non-Government organisation — for helping the Punjabis to get rid of drug...

A UK trial is investigating whether a curry ingredient can improve the treatment of patients with advanced bowel cancer. Scientists will supplement standard chemotherapy with pills containing curcumin, a compound found in the yellow curry spice turmeric. Laboratory tests have suggested...

No one cures Punjab's drug problem By Jaideep Sarin, Chandigarh, Feb 10 : From leading politicians to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to the mini-parliament of Sikh religion, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), everyone expresses concern about the growing menace of drug...

Sat Sri Akal, I belong to a very religious Sikh family, and I am a mother of an 18 year old son who has been abusing alcohol & drugs for the past 3 years. My husband and I have tried to help him but unfortunately we have had no success in our efforts to stop him from using drugs & alcohol...

India’s drug ‘lifeline’ under threat Posted by Mari Marcel Thekaekara | <abbr class="comments">2</abbr> Share this: Photo by UK Department for International Development under a CC Licence. I never dreamed I’d ever wave the flag for Indian pharmaceutical companies. But...

To give a message to create awareness for Drug problem existing in every society first ever in the world " Drug Awareness Walk Across Canada" started on April 1st 2011 from St John NFLD to finish Mid- November in Victoria BC. Team leader and DAFC founder Balwinder Singh Kahlon is joined at...

Glut - The Untold Story of Punjab on Vimeo Is this a load of rubbish or is there some truth in it???

Air hostess who smuggled £250,000 of cocaine into Britain via Heathrow is jailed for 8 years By Colin Fernandez Last updated at 12:49 AM on 21st December 2010 Jailed: Mandeep Shahi fought back tears as given an eight year prison sentence An air hostess who teamed up with a former...

Punjab drug scene hits a new 'high' 73.5 percent of the Punjabi youth, between 16 and 35 years, surveyed were addicted to drugs! IANS Monday, 22 November 2010 CHANDIGARH: It is one of the most prosperous states of India and produces the bulk of the country's foodgrain, but Punjab may soon...

Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack or heroin November 1, 2010 - 8:00am EDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday. Presenting a new...

In March 2009, the American Psychiatric Association announced that it would phase out pharmaceutical funding of continuing medical education seminars and meals at its conventions. However, the decision came only after years of controversial exposure of its conflict of interest with the...

NEW DELHI: Experts Wednesday warned of an impending AIDS catastrophe in a Punjab neighbourhood due to sharing of syringes by drug addicts, whom they described as as "time bombs" waiting to explode. "Due to the use of a single syringe by drug abusers, the risk of an AIDS epidemic explosion has...

Youth drug addiction crisis ravages Punjab's heartlands By Rahul Bedi - 4:00 AM Thursday Jun 17, 2010 India's northern Punjab province is on the verge of a crisis as large numbers of its youth are hooked hopelessly on to drugs such as opium, heroin and a range of synthetic painkillers...

Every third male student in Punjab drug addict, HC told According to a Punjab Government survey, 66 per cent of the school-going students in the state consume gutkha or tobacco; every third male and every tenth female student has taken drugs on one pretext or the other and seven out of 10...

source: http://www.southasiapost.org/2010/20100228/focus.htm#2 Liquor flows in Punjab as youth takes to drug Gobind Thukral - The South Asia Post - February 28, 2010 IT was written in bold letters on the back of a truck: “tere bache jeen, sharab peen”. Another truck had yet another slogan...

My fingers are trembling as I dial his number. I had promised him that I would call him in Punjab once I returned to the U.S.A. It would be perfect timing; he would be out of the Centre by then. An entire month has passed following my return before I gather the courage to call Mahinder. Of all...