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In a rare gesture, Hindu, Muslim couples undergo kidney swap transplant

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May 29, 2019

Bihar, May 29: For two years, Abdul Aziz, a 53-year-old carpenter from Kashmir, had been on dialysis and was looking for a kidney donor till he found a match hundreds of miles away in Bihar -- a Hindu couple who agreed for a 'swap transplant'.

The families of Manjula Devi (42), a housewife from Patna in Bihar, and Aziz from Kashmir's Baramulla district were looking for suitable donors since their spouses' kidneys were a poor mismatch for each other.

The families crossed paths within three months after they got themselves registered on a mobile app 'iKidney', developed by Priyadarshi Ranjan who is a doctor.

After conducting all the requisite tests and examination, experts opined that the kidney of donor Kumar (46) – husband of Devi – was a good match for Aziz.

Kumar, who retired from the Indian Air Force as a technician, currently works in a bank in Patna.

Similarly, the kidney of donor Shazia (50) -- wife of Aziz -- was found to be a good match for Devi. Both the families agreed to undergo surgeries for a paired kidney exchange.

The families applied for no objection certificate from state authorities.

Later, the kidney swap was successfully performed between the couples from Kashmir and Bihar at Fortis hospital at Mohali, Ranjan said here Wednesday.

The surgery was conducted by a team of doctors led by Rajan, who is a consultant, Urology, Andrology and Transplant Surgery at the hospital.

"It gives me immense satisfaction that the swap kidney transplant was a success. Both the families are extremely happy and the patients are recovering well to the post-surgery treatment," Ranjan told reporters here in the presence of both the couples, one being a Muslim and the other one a Hindu.

A kidney exchange, also known as "kidney swap" occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with the recipient, and hence exchanges kidneys with another donor-recipient pair. Such transplantation enables two incompatible recipients to receive healthy, more compatible kidneys from each other.

Devi, who received Shazia's kidney, said, "I feel lucky that we got in touch with Shazia's family. I have been doing fine after the surgery was performed." On receiving a kidney from a Muslim woman, who is also a housewife, Devi, replied, "It gives me a great source of strength that humanity is the greatest religion."

Aziz, who received Kumar's kidney, said, "We know that helping a human in times of need is the greatest deed for anyone. For any human to help any other fellow human in need is the greatest deed and that is what all religions teach us."

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Abdulla
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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Well done brothers and sister.  May God bless you will happy life.  However, some hate mongers may not like this.  In logon ka dil hamesha kaala hota hai aur ye insaniyat ke dushman hote hain.  Logon ke beech nafrat faila kar apni roti seekhna hi in insaan numa iblees ka kaam hota hai.  Laanat ho aise gaddaron par. 

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

Citing the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption caused to the academic calendar of the year, the government had earlier dropped the chapter on Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali from the Class 7 social science textbook, saying chapters on Tipu Sultan have been retained in the Class 6 and 10 textbooks.

The move did not go down well with the opposition, which saw certain ulterior motives behind the decision.

Apparently under sharp criticism, the Department of Public Instruction issued a new notification on Wednesday "on the directions of the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar".

There is a delay in opening the schools during the academic year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic, said the latest order.

In this context, the order said, chapters were dropped to fit in 120 days of the academic year for classes 1 to 10 and the same was published in the department's website.

"However, on the directions of the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, the decision to drop certain chapters has been put on hold. A review will be done following which the deleted chapters will be uploaded in the website," the order read.

Earlier in the day, Mr Kumar had issued a statement, saying that the decision to truncate the syllabus has not been finalised yet. He also made it clear that his department would not remove chapters unnecessarily.

Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah had attacked the government on the issue.

"The government, which has failed to control the spread of coronavirus, is using it as an opportunity to push its clandestine agenda of saffronising the textbooks," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

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May 15,2020

Ramanagara, May 15: Flouting all social distancing norms, people gathered in large numbers for a village temple fair in Karnataka's Ramanagara district.

On Thursday, people in large numbers came out on a road to participate in the fair. Attendees took permission for gathering from Panchayat Development Officer NC Kalmatt.

According to a Tehsildar official, Kalmatt was suspended by Ramanagara Deputy Commissioner for granting permission for the gathering.

People have been advised to wear mask in public space and maintain social distancing to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, 45 more COVID-19 cases have been reported from Karnataka, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 1,032 on Friday, according to the state Health Department.

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March 31,2020

Patna, Mar 31: In arguably the first of its kind incident in the country, a young man in Bihar was beaten to death precisely because he had informed the district control room about two corona suspects who had arrived here in the State from Mumbai.

The incident took place in Sitamarhi in North Bihar where a 20-year-old youth Bablu Kumar was allegedly killed by Sudhir Mahto and Munna Mahto.

The two Mahtos had arrived from Mumbai to Sitamarhi around ten days back. Bablu, in the meantime, informed the district control room about the arrival of two persons from a State where a large number of people were afflicted with coronavirus.

A team of doctors on March 24 reached Runnisaidpur in Sitamarhi to examine the two suspects. Three days later, these two persons from Maharashtra tested negative.

But the incident (of informing control room and subsequent medial test) created such enmity between the family of Mahtos and Babloo that on Sunday when they found the 20-year-old young man sitting alone, they thrashed him so mercilessly that he died on the spot.

Shocked and grief-struck, Babloo’s father Vinod Singh eventually lodged an FIR with the police and named Sudhir Mahto, Munna Mahto, and their family members as accused in the killing of his son.

The police on Monday raided the place and arrested the Mahtos.

But then, this is not an isolated case of violence. In another incident that took place in Bihar’s Jehanabad district, a BDO Ajay Kumar and a police officer Chandrashekhar Kumar were attacked by fellow villagers when the officials reached there to quarantine those migrants who had reached there from Delhi. So angry were the villagers with the officials’ move to isolate the migrants that they smashed the window-panes of the government vehicles and attacked the officials.

The officials had to beat a hasty retreat. But they soon returned with additional police team which used brutal force and took local leaders into custody before restoring normalcy in the area.

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