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Rising heroin shipments from Afghanistan and the surrounding region region threatens to make India’s drug problems worse

1993 Bombay Bombings: The terror attacks were carried out by Dawood Ibrahim and his organised crime syndicate. -- aaa

The surge in the illicit opium trade from the Golden Crescent region has seen India become both a major transhipment hub and a big consumer - Issue Date: Oct 18, 2021

June 2021 | TNRC Blog Post This post captures insights from a TNRC virtual panel on June 14, 2021 in which speakers from Kenya and India discussed an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend: the unsustainable mining of river sand, facilitated by corruption, that feeds the global construction boom while destroying habitats and livelihoods and fueling conflict. Insights were contributed by Mohamed Daghar, Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa, ENACT programme, Institute for Security Studies, and Dr. Prem Mahadevan, Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organi...

Mumbai police move a charred body from the blast site in 1993 (India Today Archive) Exactly 28 years ago, 12 bomb explosions ripped across Bombay, as the city of Mumbai was known then. Blast waves from the explosion travelling at supersonic speeds turned pieces of metal and concrete into deadly missiles that killed 257 Mumbaikars and maimed over 1,400 others. The March 12 Bombay bombings, as they came to be called, shattered five-star hotels, the Bombay stock exchange and the regional passport office. They were among the earliest versions of what the US now calls Complex Coordinated Terrorist...