{"id":26075,"date":"2026-03-09T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26075"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:43:52","slug":"narcotics-control-bureau-ncb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/narcotics-control-bureau-ncb\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcotics Control Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Narcotics Control Bureau Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has dismantled a pan-India drug distribution network operating under the name Team Kalki.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Narcotics Control Bureau<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>nodal drug law enforcement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>intelligence agency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the <\/span><b>Ministry of Home Affairs,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was constituted on 14th November, 1985, under the provisions of <\/span><b>the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ndps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NDPS Act).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarters: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Delhi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Functions of Narcotics Control Bureau<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Coordination among various Central and State Agencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> engaged in drug law enforcement;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assisting States in enhancing their drug law enforcement effort;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collection and dissemination of intelligence;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of seizure data, study of trends and modus operandi;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preparation of <\/span><b>National Drug Enforcement Statistics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Liaison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with International agencies such as UNDCP, INCB, INTERPOL, Customs Cooperation Council, RILO etc;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National contact point for intelligence and investigations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also functions as an <\/span><b>enforcement agency through its zonal offices.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The zonal offices collect and analyse data related to seizures of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, study trends, modus operandi, collect and disseminate intelligence, and work in close cooperation with the Customs, State Police, and other law enforcement agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/pan-india-drug-racket-team-kalki-dismantled-by-ncb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News on Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narcotics Control Bureau is the nodal drug law enforcement and intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Read more about Narcotics Control Bureau, Headquarters, Functions, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5950,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-26075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-narcotics-control-bureau","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91779,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075\/revisions\/91779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}