Please watch the video.This is not a film shooting.Two guys are cabinet ministers in Tamil Nadu,India;one of them is the Health minister.
One more gentleman is Health Secretary,Note the the way the bear themselves.
In another footage shown by Times Now, a popular English News Channel you would notice a photographer merrily clicking picture.
Those who feel strongly about this please visit M.k.Stalin,the Deputy CM of Tamil Nadu’s website and express your feelings.http://www.mkstalin.net/index_eng.php
This act is worse than ethnic cleansing.
Can not the Supreme Court , suo moto take action against these Ministers Collector and Health Secretary for gross disregard to human life and abetment to murder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6qH9zjOsEY
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Cop dying as callous ministers watch-Tamil Nadu,India.
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Who are the Taliban?-BBC.
Who are the Taliban?
The Taliban are active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan
Recent years have seen the re-emergence of the hardline Islamic Taliban movement as a fighting force in Afghanistan and a major threat to its government.
They are also threatening to destabilise Pakistan, where they control areas in the north-west and are blamed for a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks.
The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
A predominantly Pashtun movement, the Taliban came to prominence in Afghanistan in the autumn of 1994.
It is commonly believed that they first appeared in religious seminaries – mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia – which preached a hard line form of Sunni Islam.
The Taliban’s promise – in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan – was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
In both countries they introduced or supported Islamic punishments – such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers and amputations of those found guilty of theft.
Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka.
Madrassas
The Taliban showed a similar disdain for television, music and cinema and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over from going to school.The Taliban first came to prominence in Afghanistan in 1994
Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it is the architect of the Taliban enterprise.
But there is little doubt that many Afghans who initially joined the movement were educated in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan.
Pakistan was also one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which recognised the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001.
It was also the last country to break diplomatic ties with the Taliban.
But Pakistan has since adopted a harder line against Taliban militants carrying out attacks on its soil.
The attention of the world was drawn to the Taliban in Afghanistan following the attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001.Mullah Omar’s precise whereabouts are still unknown
The Taliban in Afghanistan were accused of providing a sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement who were blamed for the attacks.
Soon after 9/11 the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan by a US-led coalition, although their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was not captured – and neither was Osama Bin Laden.
In recent years the Taliban have re-emerged in Afghanistan and grown far stronger in Pakistan, where observers say there is loose co-ordination between different Taliban factions and militant groups.
The main Pakistani faction is led by Hakimullah Mehsud, whose Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is blamed for dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks.
Observers warn against over-stating the existence of one unified insurgency against the Pakistani state, however.
The Taliban in Afghanistan are still believed to be led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Afghans, weary of the mujahideen’s excesses and infighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when they first appeared on the scene.THE TALIBAN
Emerged in Afghanistan in 1994
Mainly supported by ethnic Pashtuns
Toppled after US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001
Fugitive leader Mullah Omar wanted, whereabouts unknown
Their early popularity was largely due to their success in stamping out corruption, curbing lawlessness and making the roads and the areas under their control safe for commerce to flourish.
From south-western Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly extended their influence.
They captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran, in September 1995.
Exactly one year later, they captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, after overthrowing the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani and his defence minister, Ahmed Shah Masood.
By 1998, they were in control of almost 90% of Afghanistan.
They were accused of various human rights and cultural abuses. One notorious example was in 2001, when the Taliban went ahead with the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan, despite international outrage.
US onslaught
On October 7, 2001, a US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan and by the first week of December the Taliban regime had collapsed.Mullah Omar and his comrades have evaded capture despite one of the largest manhunts in the world
Mullah Omar and most of the other senior Taliban leaders, along with Bin Laden and some of his senior al-Qaeda associates, survived the American onslaught.
Mullah Omar and most of his comrades have evaded capture despite one of the largest manhunts in the world and are believed to be guiding the resurgent Taliban.
Since then they have re-grouped in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, but are now under pressure in both countries, from the Pakistani army and Nato respectively.
Despite ever higher numbers of foreign troops, the Taliban have steadily extended their influence, rendering vast tracts of Afghanistan insecure, and violence in the country has returned to levels not seen since 2001.
Their retreat earlier this decade enabled them to limit their human and material losses and return with a vengeance.
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Giving up smoking ‘raises diabetes risk’,BBC
Giving up smoking raises Diabetes risk;drinking reduces risk of heart attack.What next? Womanizing reduces risk of AIDS?
Story:
Giving up smoking sharply increases the risk of developing type-two diabetes, a US study suggests.
Researchers found quitters had a 70% increased risk of developing type-two diabetes in the first six years without cigarettes compared with non-smokers.
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When To Say No To Your Doctor-Forbes.
Also read my blog on Health Care Costs under Health.
In Depth: Six Reasons To Say No To Your Doctor
When it comes to economic threats to our country, President Obama says nothing even comes close to spiraling health care costs, expected to hit $2.5 trillion this year. Legislators are struggling to come up with health reform plans that cover millions more people without boosting the deficit.One obvious place that Congress could look for savings: the waste already embedded in the medical system.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/12/health-care-costs-lifestyle-health-spending-tests.htmlHealth policy researchers furiously debate how much is wasted on treatments that sometimes don’t make people better. There are no sure numbers because much of modern medicine remains unstudied and unproven, but by every indication the figure is colossal. Health spending is projected to hit 17.6% of gross domestic product this year. In 2008 McKinsey found $650 billion in excess medical costs, even after adjusting for the fact that rich nations spend more of their incomes on health.
In Depth: Six Reasons Say No To Your Doctor
Elliott Fisher and his colleagues at Dartmouth Medical School have shown that medical spending fluctuates wildly from town to town and hospital to hospital, with no measurable improvement in health in the pricey places. They calculate that 20% or more of all costs could be eliminated without harming anyone. It might even save some lives by preventing complications from unnecessary treatments and hospital stays. At least 40% of all specialist visits and 25% of hospitals stays are unnecessary, Fisher estimates. (For more, see: Useless Medicine.)“We don’t have any sort of system to measure the effectiveness of what we are doing,” says Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center orthopedic surgeon James Weinstein. He showed in 2006 that patients with herniated spinal discs often get better on their own, without the need for back surgery. “For all of the money we spend, we are flying blind.”
Tests and treatments Congress could target if it decides to get serious about controlling health care costs:
Another strand of evidence comes from health researcher Robert Brook at UCLA and the Rand Corp. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he and his colleagues looked at rates of unnecessary surgery for numerous elective procedures. “Across the board, a large percentage of surgery was inappropriate or of questionable value,” he says. Sometimes it was 30% or more. Brook says no federal agency has been interested in funding his proposals to develop a broad set of surgical appropriateness criteria. “You’d think the federal government would make this a priority. But it is politically too hot to handle,” he says.
Wasteful medicine can be profitable. “Every time you isolate a place where we are wasting money and there is something we can do about it, it takes money out of someone’s pocket,” says Wendy Everett, who heads New England Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit research outfit.
States With The Most And Least H1N1 Vaccine Per 1,000 Residents
Your chances of getting inoculated against America’s worst pandemic since the 1918 flu improve greatly depending on where you live.
But American consumers share the blame. They often falsely equate fancy tests with high-quality care.“There is an assumption that more testing is better care,” says Richard Deyo, a back pain expert at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. People don’t trust their physicians and assume they aren’t doing a good job if they don’t order more tests.”
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