Guwahati, July 5 -- Guwahati will be at the centre of global efforts to combat the rapidly evolving drug trade this week when India hosts the BRICS Heads of Anti-Drug Agencies Meeting on July 6 and 7, bringing together the top narcotics enforcement officials from 11 major emerging economies.

The high-level meeting, hosted by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, comes at a time when synthetic drugs, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), darknet-enabled trafficking and cryptocurrency-based money flows are reshaping the global narcotics trade and posing unprecedented challenges for law enforcement agencies.

Officials from Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Afri...