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New York:  Surgeons led by an Indian-origin doctor have performed a double-lung transplant on a second patient whose lungs were damaged by COVID-19, within a month after the same team conducted what is believed to have been the first such surgery in the US. The patient, an Illinois man in his 60s, spent 100 days on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a life support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs. He received the transplant last weekend at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital said in a statement "This procedure capped an extremely busy holiday weekend for our transplant team. We worked around the clock, performing multiple transplants on non-COVID patients before accepting new lungs for this COVID-19 survivor," said Dr Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Programme, who performed seven lung transplants in seven days. "Performing back to back lung transpl

The encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey may have opened a Pandora's box for the Uttar Pradesh Police. Questions are being raised on several aspects: from the need to fatally shoot a criminal attempting escape to the police narrative. But it has mainly kicked up dust over Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's alleged ' thok do ' policy (a quote of the chief minister) which the Opposition  has used to decry the rise in encounter killings. Shortly after taking charge of India's most populous state with the  worst crime statistics , Adityanath infamously told  India TV   in a June 2017 interview,  "Agar apradh karenge toh thok diye jayenge ( if they commit crime, we'll take them out )."  A few days later, his deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya, picked up the cue to clarify what the phrase t hok do,  which could mean both to kill someone or to knock them out, meant. "Today criminals are terrified with the thought that either they will have to give up cri

New Delhi:  Former United States national security advisor John Bolton has said that if border tensions escalate, there is no guarantee that President Donald Trump will back India against China. China has been behaving in a belligerent fashion all around its periphery, certainly in the East and South China sea, and its relations with Japan, India as well as others have declined, Bolton told WION TV in an interview. On how far Trump was prepared to go to back India against China, he said, "I don't know which way he would go and I don't think he knows either. I think he sees the geostrategic relationship with China, for example, exclusively through the prism of trade." "I don't know what Trump will do after the November elections once the guard rail is removed... He'll be back to the big China trade deal. If things were to develop between India and China in a more critical fashion, I'm not sure where he would come down," the former US envoy to

08:48 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates Aishwarya Rai, Aaradhya and Jaya Bachchan test negative for COVID-19 After Bollywood actors Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan test positive for the coronavirus,  reports  say that Jaya Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter Aaradhya have tested negative for it. 08:30 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak in Karnataka Latest Updates Lockdown in Karnataka today Complete lockdown is being observed in Kalaburagi on Sunday, due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. The state government has announced a complete lockdown in the state on all Sundays till August 2. Karnataka: Complete lockdown being observed in Kalaburagi today, due to rise in #COVID19 cases. The state government has announced a complete lockdown in the state on all Sundays till August 2. pic.twitter.com/YMUrzvMzFQ — ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2020 08:08 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates Former India cricketer Chetan Chauhan tests positive for COVID-19 F

00:18 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak in India  Latest Updates Get well soon, wishes child activist Licypriya Kanjugam Sad to hear both Amitabh Bachchan Sir and his son got COVID19 positive. Get well soon @SrBachchan @juniorbachchan . Whole family now undergo tests. Praying for the entire family 🙏🏻❤️. #AmitabhBachchan #AbhishekBachchan #StaySafeAtHome #UseFaceMask pic.twitter.com/4YlxpVxOHn — Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) July 11, 2020 00:08 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak in India  Latest Updates  Abhishek Bachchan tests positive Abhishek Bachchan said that he has also tested positive for the coronavirus infection and said that he and his father have mild symptoms. "The BMC has been in touch and we are complying with them," he added. Earlier today both my father and I tested positive for COVID 19. Both of us having mild symptoms have been admitted to hospital. We have informed all the required authorities and our family and staff are all being tested. I reque