I will retire in Aug 2027, subject to divine intervention: Vice President Dhankhar
New Delhi (PTI): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said he will retire in August 2027, "subject to divine intervention".
He made the remarks while addressing an event at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here.
"I will retire at the right time, August 2027, subject to divine intervention," he said in a lighter vein.
Dhankhar's five-year term as the 14th Vice President ends on August 10, 2027.
A senior lawyer, he was serving as the governor of West Bengal when he was elected as the Vice President after being fielded by the BJP-led NDA.
Addressing the gathering, Dhankhar said India's rise as a global power must be accompanied by the rise of its intellectual and cultural gravitas.
The strength of a nation lies in the originality of its thought and the timelessness of its values, he said.
He lamented that indigenous insights were dismissed as "relics of the primitive past and selective remembrance continued even after independence".
Western constructs were "paraded" as universal truths, Dhankhar said.
"There was an architecture of erasure and decimation," he said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
