Punjab Police launches search operation after villager spots six suspicious men
Chandigarh, Nov 24 : The Punjab Police launched a massive search operation in Shadipur village of Pathankot district after a local claimed to have spotted six suspicious men.
The search operation was carried out on Friday evening after a farmer claimed to have seen six suspicious persons who were carrying backpacks, police said Saturday.
He immediately informed the police which conducted a search operation in sugarcane fields of the area to trace the suspects.
We have carried out search operation on Friday evening and as a preventive measure, we will again launch search operation in some more villages on Saturday, Pathankot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vivek Sheel Soni told PTI.
So far, nothing suspicious has been found, he said.
Meanwhile, in another incident, police also recovered a car near Muthi village of Pathankot after its occupants abandoned it.
Police believed that the car, bearing Jammu and Kashmir registration number, belonged to some bovine smugglers.
All the police check posts were alerted in Pathankot district to stop the car on Friday night after getting an input about the bovine smugglers.
However, four car occupants avoided two police check posts near Kollian village and Ujjh area. But later, they abandoned the vehicle near Muthi village when they found it was not possible to give a slip to the police check posts.
Police have also traced the owner of the car which is registered in the name of one Hassandin of Kathua area.
A raid was also conducted at his house but he was not found, police official said. Nothing suspicious has been found from the vehicle, police said.
Meanwhile, extra vigil is being maintained by security agencies in the border district.
Security agencies in Pathankot and adjoining districts have been on alert after four persons, travelling in a hired SUV from Jammu, had snatched the vehicle from its driver at gunpoint near Madhopur area here a couple of days back.
However, police was yet to trace the vehicle.
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Malayali Oxford scientist Dr Safeer CK gets Royal Society Award
London: Dr Safeer CK, a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2024, securing a funding grant of £1.85 million (Rs 19,73,48,195.00). A leading young researcher in the field of spintronics, Dr. Safeer’s work is poised to revolutionise next-generation electronics.
The Royal Society Fellowship is one of the highest honours in the scientific community. Royal Society Fellows include iconic scientists such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Indian luminaries like Srinivasa Ramanujan and C.V. Raman.
Dr Safeer's research focuses on using nanomaterials—just one atom thick—to build the computers of the future. His research group, the Oxford-MIND group, is based at the renowned Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford Physics. The group focuses on building future brain-inspired computing architectures and advancing the frontiers of spintronics and 2D materials research.
Hailing from Kerala’s Malappuram district, Dr Safeer rose through the ranks of academia, eventually earning a place at Oxford, one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Dr Safeer’s academic path began at Mongam Ummul Qura Higher Secondary School and Morayur V.H.M. Higher Secondary School before pursuing his undergraduate studies in Physics at Hansraj College, Delhi University. He later earned a postgraduate degree from Joseph Fourier University in France, supported with the scholarship provided by the Indian government and France government. He went on to complete his doctorate in Nanophysics at the Spintec laboratory in France, a part of the French Atomic Centre.
His impressive collection of records and achievements includes the prestigious Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, one of Europe’s most competitive and sought-after research awards.
Over his career, Dr Safeer has published 18 research articles, including papers in the Natural journals, and holds three international patents for novel magnetic memory technologies. He also teaches undergraduate courses in Physics and Electronics at the University of Oxford.
