Manipur authorities have destroyed a large poppy field to fight drug trafficking. The joint operation aims to curb illegal ...

The first flowers to be picked are always the most beautiful ones. Here's how to tell if others are trimming you down.

The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...

the “tallest poppy” in the field that everyone wants to chop down. If you’ve ever excelled at work, only to have your coworkers or even your seniors downplay your success, discourage you ...

Farmer Emilio is forced to work for his cousin gathering the poppy crop while his nine-year-old son Simon befriends a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't afford.

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in ...

The poppy came to be the symbol of remembrance of those who gave their lives in WWI after the publication of the poem “In Flanders Field” written by Lt. Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a ...

In Manipur, over 25 acres of illegal poppy cultivation were destroyed in the Khudei Khullen hill range. The operation was a joint effort by the police, BSF, and forest department. Chief Minister N ...

Red silk poppies were first sold by the Royal British Legion in 1921, with the funds raised used to help veterans with employment and housing. That year, Field Marshal Douglas Haig set up the Haig ...