Key Points
The US and India are looking to strengthen information sharing on the illegal trade of opioids such as fentanyl, to combat its misuse in the North American country...
Kristie Canegallo, acting deputy secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, discussed the matter with her Indian counterparts at the Senior Officials Homeland Security Dialogue in New Delhi on Wednesday..
The exchange between law-enforcement agencies is part of the 2010 India-US counter-terrorism initiative...
While Mexico and China are the primary sources of fentanyl and other related substances, including precursors, the US Drug Enforcement Agency has, in the past, highlighted Indias role in the trafficking of some of these drugs into the US...
On countering terrorism, Canagello said India and the US discussed the rising threat of individuals radicalized by on-going conflicts and the continuing peril from organized terror groups...
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