The son of a police sub-inspector (S-I) was shot dead in the trans-Ganga area of Tharvai here on Wednesday. The incident took place in a private medical clinic near kiosk number 40. The doctor was seen running away in a huff after the gun shot was heard. The police have not been able to find out the reason behind the murder. The locals said Pankaj Yadav (27), son of Badri Prasad Yadav, was constructing a house near the above clinic and he had some altercation with people a few days ago.
On Wednesday he visited the clinic and after a few minutes a gun shot was heard there and the doctor, Rohit Sharma was seen running out wearing only one slipper. He immediately started his bike and disappeared. One slipper of the doctor was seen lying the near the body of Pankaj Yadav.
Pankaj of Hasanpur Korari, Sarai Chandi, Tharvai, was residing in Teliyerganj and visited Tharvai frequently in connection with the construction of a house in Nai Basti.
Father of Pankaj is a police sub-inspector and posted at Lanka police station of Varanasi. The doctor who runs the above clinic is reportedly a government medical officer and is posted in Prayagraj. It is still not clear that who fired the shot to kill Pankaj.
RESEARCH: Research by a team of scientists from various countries, including an alumnus of Allahabad University (AU), has found a compound derived from tobacco leaves that might possess the potential to combat multiple forms of cancer. The findings offer a striking contrast because tobacco usage, according to WHO, is accountable for a quarter of all cancer-related fatalities worldwide and remains the primary cause of lung cancer. The remarkable discovery by AU alumnus Amit Dubey, along with Indian scientist Aisha Tufail and Malaysian researchers Miah Roney and Prof AKM Moyeenul Huq, has been published in the “Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics”, a publication of Taylor & Francis Ltd in the UK. According to the study’s findings, a singular anti-cancer compound termed “4-[3-Hydroxyanilino]-6,7-Dimethoxyquinazoline” can be extracted from tobacco leaves, exhibiting no discernible side effects.
Amit explained: “The proliferation, survival, adhesion, migration and differentiation of cancer cells are all significantly influenced by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The walls of tumour cells contain EGFR. They require this protein to survive and develop.”
The research team used a collaborative approach to screen drug bank compounds targeting the EGFR protein. This was facilitated through the drug bank, a comprehensive, free-access online database maintained by the University of Alberta and the Metabolomics Innovation Centre in Alberta, Canada, from which the team sourced the compound found in tobacco leaves for their study. Amit is a senior scientist at Quanta Calculus Pvt Ltd in Greater Noida.
