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Feeding a habit
Illicit heroin production units have mushroomed in nearby Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to serve Delhi, says DEVESH K. PANDEY.

Drugs on our doorstep
As supply from Afghanistan has come down, indigenous production of heroin appears to have gone up. This also raises doubts about diversion of the legal poppy crop. PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA reports.

India's own golden triangle
By Pranab Dhal Samanta

Poppy is legally grown on 25,000 hectares in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The opium yield is between 900 and 1,000 tonnes a year.

ROADS AND RIVALS
China's back door
By C. Raja Mohan

YANGON, APRIL 6. Myanmar, with its ease of access to China's south-western provinces like Yunnan, has long been seen as the back door into the Middle Kingdom. As China now seeks to extend prosperity from the eastern seaboard to the interior, ...

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