Pakistan TV Satellite

ISLAMABAD: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed to provide &ldquo;all possible help&rdquo; to Sri Lanka in this time of need, as the South Asian nation reels from deadly floods and landslides, with the death toll reaching 390 and 352 people still reported missing. Cyclone Ditwah, bringing powerful winds and torrential rains, triggered Sri Lanka&rsquo;s worst flooding in a decade when it struck on Friday, unleashing deadly landslides across the country&rsquo;s hilly central regions. &ldquo;Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed to provide all possible help [to Sri Lanka] in this time of need,&rdquo; Tarar said in a post on X. Pakistan Navy ship PNS Saif, which was on a port call at Colombo for participation in an international fleet review, is actively undertaking relief operations for the local populace. The Pakistan Navy has continued relief operations in Sri Lanka for the third consecutive day. On Monday, a Navy helicopter aboard PNS Saif successfully rescued a family that had been stranded for five days, including a seven-month-old child. With the assistance of local authorities, the Navy safely evacuated residents trapped in floodwaters from rooftops to secure locations. Earlier, the Pakistan Navy also delivered food staples, MREs, medical supplies, and other essential items to support thousands struggling in the aftermath of the disaster. India denies Pakistan air route for Sri Lanka reliefThe relief operations, however, have faced obstacles due to India&rsquo;s refusal to grant airspace access for Pakistan&rsquo;s humanitarian mission. Pakistan Army has prepared a 45-member urban search-and-rescue team from the Army, with support from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft, to assist the affected population. Despite all logistical arrangements, including commercial cargo planes with a 100-ton capacity, Indian airspace restrictions have slowed down relief operations. Consequently, Pakistan&rsquo;s aid and rescue teams had to reroute shipments via sea, delaying delivery to Sri Lanka by eight days. The relief cargo includes rescue boats, pumps, life jackets, tents, blankets, food, milk, and medicines. Despite these challenges, Pakistan remains committed to assisting Sri Lanka&rsquo;s flood victims.

SAT News Desk

Relief operations have faced obstacles due to India’s refusal to grant airspace access for Pakistan’s humanitarian mission; Pakistan Army has prepared a 45-member urban search-and-rescue team from the Army, with support from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft, to assist the affected population.



PM Sharif directs to provide full support for flood-hit Sri Lanka — information minister 

PARIS: For US President Donald Trump, speaking after the release of an American security strategy that warned Europe was on the verge of &quot;civilisational erasure&quot;, the continent&#39;s immigration policy is a &quot;disaster&quot; that will result in many European countries no longer being &quot;viable&quot;. Speaking in a Politico interview published on Tuesday, Trump said Europe wants to be &quot;politically correct and they don&#39;t want to send them (migrants) back to where they came from&quot;, drawing a contrast with the hardline policy of his administration. Europe does keep welcoming workers, partly because ageing populations and falling birthrates are whittling away at its labour force. But Trump&#39;s broadside ignores a much more nuanced wider picture, with a tightening crackdown on illegal immigration in Europe leading to a decrease in asylum applications and irregular arrivals. The European Union&#39;s statistical agency Eurostat counted some 29 million third-country nationals as of January 1, 2024, representing 6.4 percent of the population. In 2021, this figure was 23.8 million. But countries issued eight percent fewer first residence permits last year than in 2023, according to Eurostat, suggesting a slight drop in legal arrivals. Germany, Spain, France, and Italy account for nearly 70 percent of foreign nationals living in the European Union. &quot;Part of our economy is based on immigration,&quot; Matthieu Tardis, co-director of the independent research centre Synergies Migrations, told AFP, citing France as an example where &quot;the industrial revolution was built on Italian and Polish labour&quot;. Today, in certain sectors, &quot;foreigners are overrepresented&quot; compared to their proportion of the European population, particularly in healthcare and construction, he added. Foreign doctors represent 22 percent of physicians in Germany, 18 percent in France, and 41 percent in the United Kingdom, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). - Germany sharpens policy -At the end of 2024, Eurostat recorded 1 million asylum seekers in Europe, down 11 percent compared to 2023. During 2024, some 438,000 people were granted refugee status giving them the right to stay. The number of asylum seekers has never again reached the level of the 2015 migration crisis, when hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the war arrived in Europe. At that time, 1.3 million asylum seekers were recorded. In terms of irregular immigration, nearly 200,000 arrivals were recorded on European shores in 2024, five times fewer than in 2015, according to the United Nations. Experts attribute this decrease in part to agreements reached with countries including Turkey, Libya, and Tunisia to crack down on boat departures, which have aroused criticism over human rights implications. In Germany, which hosts the most foreigners in the European Union, conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz has implemented a stricter asylum policy since coming to power in May elections where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party achieved its best ever result. As of the beginning of November, the number of asylum applications in Germany had decreased by more than half compared to 2024. - Italy, Hungary and UK -Italy has already signed a controversial agreement with Albania to outsource the processing of asylum seekers intercepted at sea. But the measure is currently stalled due to multiple legal challenges in Italian courts. Since her election in 2022, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, has made combating illegal immigration one of her priorities. At the same time, the Italian government has increased the number of work visas issued (450,000 between 2023 and 2025, compared to 75,700 in 2022) in order to address labour shortages as the population ages and birth rates decline. This pattern has been repeated in Hungary under nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, where only 29 asylum seekers -- excluding those from Ukraine -- were registered in 2024. But the number of foreigners residing in the country has increased over the past 10 years, through his &quot;guest&quot; worker policy, rising from nearly 146,000 to over 255,000 expected by 2025. Outside the European Union, in the United Kingdom, net immigration plummeted by nearly 69 percent year-on-year, the Office for National Statistics reported at the end of November. This data confirms a downward trend since the peak reached in 2023, largely due to the policies of the previous Conservative government, although there has been no let up in irregular Channel crossings.

Americas

US President Donald Trump warned Europe was on the verge of "civilisational erasure", the continent's immigration policy is a "disaster" that will result in many European countries no longer being "viable"

Trump slams Europe immigration policies as EU tightens borders

Angelina Duaa Hashir

The &ldquo;perfect wife&rdquo; didn&rsquo;t disappear with the 1950s. She adapted, rebranded, and logged into TikTok. This episode of Unladylike dives into how a postwar fantasy evolved into a glossy digital persona. The image that once sold soap now sells lifestyle coaching, domestic aesthetics, affiliate links, and a highly profitable version of submission. We examine the creators pushing this narrative, the businesses benefiting from it, and the tension between tradwife imagery and what women actually want for their lives. So the next time a tradwife you follow urges you to depend on your man, stop and ask: does she?

Unladylike

The “perfect wife” didn’t stay in the 1950s. She adapted, rebranded, and built a TikTok persona that sells soft lighting, sourdough… and submission.

Pretty little tradwives

LONDON: The UK Friday imposed sanctions on senior commanders of Sudan&#39;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) suspected of &quot;heinous violence&quot; in the Darfur hub of El-Fasher, which the paramilitary group captured in October.&nbsp;The Foreign Office in London said those targeted include RSF second-in-command Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo, whose brother Mohammad Hamdan Daglo is the group&#39;s leader, as well as three other commanders.&nbsp;They are accused of &quot;mass killings, systematic sexual violence and deliberate attacks on civilians&quot; when the RSF dislodged the Sudanese army from El-Fasher, its last stronghold in the western Darfur region.&nbsp;They now face UK asset freezes and travel bans.&nbsp;The government said the RSF&#39;s actions in El-Fasher were &quot;not random&quot; but instead &quot;part of a deliberate strategy to terrorise populations and seize control through fear and violence&quot;.&nbsp;It added satellite imagery showed evidence of mass graves where victims have been burned and buried, and the sanctions send &quot;a clear message that those who commit atrocities will be held to account&quot;.&nbsp;The European Union last month also slapped sanctions on Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo.&nbsp;In a statement unveiling the UK curbs, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the atrocities taking place in Sudan &quot;are so horrific they scar the conscience of the world&quot;.&nbsp;&quot;The overwhelming evidence of heinous crimes -- mass executions, starvation, and the systematic and calculated use of rape as a weapon of war -- cannot and will not go unpunished,&quot; she added.&nbsp;&quot;The UK will not look away, and we will always stand with the people of Sudan.&quot;&nbsp;Minni Minawi, the army-aligned governor of Darfur, welcomed the UK sanctions &quot;as an important step toward holding accountable those responsible for the crimes and violations witnessed in Sudan in recent times&quot;.&nbsp;But he added the measures &quot;remain incomplete&quot; unless they also target Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, &quot;as he is the decision-maker and the direct architect of the violence system&quot;.&nbsp;London also announced Friday &pound;21 million ($28 million) in additional aid to provide food, clean water, healthcare, and protection for women and children in areas of Sudan hardest hit by violence.&nbsp;It said the financial package took UK aid spending in Sudan this year to &pound;146 million.

United Kingdom

The UK imposed sanctions on senior RSF commanders for atrocities during the El-Fasher takeover, citing mass killings and sexual violence. London also announced £21 million in new aid for Sudan, while calls continue to sanction RSF leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo.

UK slaps sanctions on Sudan RSF paramilitary deputy, other commanders

Web Desk

ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organization (WHO) has commended Pakistan&rsquo;s progress toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with the agency&rsquo;s representative in Islamabad calling for continued partner and donor support to help the country further strengthen its health system.&nbsp;In a report released on World Health Day, WHO Representative to Pakistan Dr. Dapeng Luo highlighted the government&rsquo;s commitment to expanding quality health services, noting that Pakistan has made &ldquo;notable milestones&rdquo; in improving national health indicators.&nbsp;Last week, WHO hosted a dialogue under the theme &ldquo;Health: It&rsquo;s on the Government,&rdquo; bringing together senior officials including the Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath.&nbsp;Representatives from the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, the Benazir Income Support Program, the Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP), and other national institutions also participated.&nbsp;According to the report, Pakistan&rsquo;s UHC Index has risen significantly, moving from 40 in 2015 to 52.7 in 2022.&nbsp;Dr. Luo praised the government&rsquo;s efforts, saying the achievements reflect &ldquo;Pakistan&rsquo;s commitment to strengthening its health system and ensuring better care for its people.&rdquo;&nbsp;He encouraged continued collaboration with partners to help the country reach its 2030 UHC target, emphasizing the importance of sustained investment and coordinated action.&nbsp;The dialogue also showcased major national achievements, including the successful expansion of the Sehat Sahulat Program, which now provides health coverage to 190 million people.&nbsp;Launched in 2016 to support families below the poverty line, SSP was expanded between 2020 and 2021 to move Pakistan closer to universal health coverage, the report noted.&nbsp;Participants reaffirmed their commitment to advancing UHC as a national priority, highlighting the importance of accessible, equitable, reliable, and high-quality services for all citizens.&nbsp;National guidelines launchedThe report further detailed the launch of comprehensive national guidelines and training program designed to strengthen reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health across the country.&nbsp;&ldquo;In Pakistan, around 4 million pregnant women and newborns receive health care services from the public and private sectors each year,&rdquo; the report said.&nbsp;Dr. Luo underscored the importance of continued progress in this area, stating: &ldquo;Improving the lives of these mothers and newborns is essential to ensuring good health for all. No real sustainable development can be achieved without healthy mothers and newborns.&rdquo;&nbsp;The report also noted that International Universal Health Coverage Day aims to promote the need for strong and resilient health systems that &ldquo;work for everyone, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have.&rdquo;

Health

WHO praised Pakistan’s progress on Universal Health Coverage, noting major improvements, expanded health services, and rising UHC indicators, while urging stronger partner support to meet 2030 targets and sustain nationwide healthcare reforms

WHO praises Pakistan’s progress, calls for stronger partner support

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans to explore converting up to $2 billion in government bonds and other sovereign assets into blockchain-based digital tokens through an memorandum of understanding signed Friday with cryptocurrency giant Binance, the finance ministry announced.&nbsp;In an official statement, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng signed the MoU&nbsp;at the Finance Division. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao also attended the ceremony.&nbsp;The MoU&nbsp;establishes a framework for exploring potential collaboration on the tokenization and blockchain-based distribution of Pakistan&rsquo;s real-world and sovereign assets, including government bonds, treasury bills, commodity reserves, and other federally owned assets.&nbsp; Subject to applicable laws, policies, and regulatory approvals, it aims to improve liquidity, transparency, and international market accessibility.&nbsp; Binance may provide technical expertise, advisory support, training, and capacity-building to help Pakistan evaluate its blockchain infrastructure. The initiative aims to boost liquidity, transparency, and access to international markets while respecting Pakistan&#39;s regulatory framework and sovereignty.&nbsp;&ldquo;This is a very strong message &mdash; not only for Pakistan, but the entire world,&rdquo; Aurangzeb said. &ldquo;The next step for us is execution, and we are fully committed to delivering results with speed and quality.&rdquo;&nbsp;Changpeng&nbsp;called the proposal&nbsp;&ldquo;a landmark development for Pakistan&rsquo;s future,&rdquo; stating it would have &ldquo;a very big impact on the country&rsquo;s future and its technology-driven generation.&rdquo;&nbsp;The MoU is nonbinding, the ministry noted. Final&nbsp;agreements will be negotiated within six months, subject to all legal, regulatory, and policy approvals. Any future arrangement will be governed by Pakistani law and will not involve exclusivity or procurement commitments.

Economy

A memorandum of understanding between the finance ministry and Binance marks a potential shift in how Pakistan plans to access international capital markets through emerging financial technology.

Pakistan, Binance explore tokenizing $2 billion in sovereign assets via blockchain

BERLIN: Germany said Friday it had identified two Russian cyber operations, targeting air traffic control and February&#39;s general election, and that it had summoned the Russian ambassador.&nbsp;A foreign ministry spokesman said: &quot;We can now clearly attribute the cyberattack against German Air Safety in August 2024 to the hacker collective APT28, also known as Fancy Bear.&nbsp;&quot;Second, we can now state definitively that Russia, through the Storm 1516 campaign, sought to influence and destabilise the most recent federal election,&quot; he added at a press conference.&nbsp;The Russian embassy in Berlin was not immediately reachable for comment.&nbsp;The foreign ministry spokesman said that Germany &quot;would take a series of countermeasures to make Russia pay a price for its hybrid actions in close coordination with our European partners&quot;.&nbsp;Berlin would support &quot;new individual sanctions against hybrid actors on a European level&quot;, he said, without providing further details.&nbsp;Governments across Europe are on high alert over alleged Russian espionage, drone surveillance and sabotage activities, as well as cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns.&nbsp;Germany has been Ukraine&#39;s second-biggest supplier of aid since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and has accused Moscow of &quot;hybrid attacks&quot;, including drone flights near various European airports in recent months.

Europe

Germany said it had identified two Russian cyber operations targeting air traffic control and the February general election, summoned the Russian ambassador, and EU-level sanctions in response to Moscow’s alleged hybrid attacks

Germany blames Russia for cyberattack on air safety, election interference

LONDON: Britain&rsquo;s economy unexpectedly contracted again in October, official data showed Friday, dealing a blow to the Labour government&rsquo;s hopes of reviving economic growth. Gross domestic product fell 0.1% in October following a contraction of 0.1% in September, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. Analysts had forecast growth of 0.1%. Manufacturing rebounded in the month as carmaker Jaguar Land Rover resumed operations after a cyberattack that had weighed on the UK economy in September. But analysts noted that businesses and consumers reined in spending ahead of Britain&rsquo;s highly expected annual budget.<figure id="isPasted"><img src="https://paktv-assets-7d41fab8.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/3167df24-30e1-4fce-a0a3-99f4aefa2b35-Untitled.jpg" alt="Untitled.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii"><figcaption>LONDON: Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England (L) and the Royal Exchange building (back R) at Bank in central London on December 12, 2025. -- Photo by AFP/Henry Nicholls</figcaption></figure>&ldquo;Business and consumers were braced for tax hikes and the endless speculation, and leaks have once again put the brake on the UK economy,&rdquo; said Lindsay James, investment manager at Quilter. Prime Minister Keir Starmer&rsquo;s Labour Party raised taxes in last month&rsquo;s budget to slash state debt and fund public services. At the same time, Britain&rsquo;s economic growth was downgraded from next year until the end of 2029, according to data released alongside the budget. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves raised taxes on businesses in her inaugural budget last year -- a decision widely blamed for causing weak UK economic growth and rising unemployment. She returned in November with fresh hikes, this time hitting workers. Analysts said that Friday&rsquo;s data strengthened expectations that the Bank of England would cut interest rates next week.

Business

Gross domestic product fell 0.1% in October following a contraction of 0.1% in September, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement; analysts had forecast growth of 0.1%.

UK economy unexpectedly shrinks in October

Foreign Affairs

Sharif says Pakistan has been and shall continue to support all efforts aimed at upholding the inalienable right to self-determination of Palestinian people as well as the brave and resilient Kashmiri people.

Pakistan PM calls on world to press Kabul to curb terrorism from Afghan soil 

BANGKOK:&nbsp;Thailand&#39;s prime minister dissolved parliament on Friday, paving the way for general elections early next year as deadly border clashes continue with neighbor Cambodia. The move comes earlier than expected and just three months after Anutin Charnvirakul -- of the conservative Bhumjaithai party -- became prime minister when his predecessor was removed from office over an ethics violation. &ldquo;The House of Representatives is dissolved to hold a new general election for members of the House,&rdquo; a decree published in the Royal Gazette on Friday said. Anutin was widely expected to wait until after Christmas to dissolve parliament. &ldquo;Since the administration is a minority government and domestic political conditions are fraught with multiple challenges, the government cannot continue administering state affairs continuously, efficiently, and with stability,&rdquo; the Royal Gazette said, citing a report received from Anutin. &lsquo;Appropriate solution&rsquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Therefore, the appropriate solution is to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold a new general election.&rdquo; The dissolution comes as fighting stemming from a decades-long territorial dispute over ancient temples has flared again on the border with Cambodia, where clashes have killed at least 20 people and displaced around 600,000, mostly in Thailand. In a statement, Cambodia&rsquo;s defense ministry said the Thai military continued to shell and fire machine guns into Cambodian territory on Friday morning. AFP journalists heard continuous artillery fire at the border on Friday, ahead of an expected call between Anutin and US President Donald Trump, who has made vocal attempts to broker peace between the southeast Asian neighbors. &lsquo;Couple of phone calls&rsquo;At the congressional ball at the White House on Thursday night, Trump claimed again to have solved eight wars. &ldquo;Although Thailand and Cambodia, I think I&rsquo;m going to have to make a couple of phone calls on Thailand, but we&rsquo;ll get that one back on track,&rdquo; he said. The two countries have blamed each other for the fresh fighting, which saw Thailand launch air strikes and use tanks against its neighbor on Monday. Evacuees at a shelter in Thailand&rsquo;s Surin province told AFP they were less concerned about who leads the new government than about who would improve their lives along the border. &ldquo;I just care that the leader, whoever that is, is someone who helps ordinary farmers like us,&rdquo; said 68-year-old Somrak Suebsoontorn. <h2 style="line-height: 2;">&lsquo;Power to the people&rsquo; </h2>Under Thai law, elections must be held between 45 and 60 days after parliament is dissolved, meaning polls are expected around the end of January or early February. Anutin said in a Facebook post late Thursday he &ldquo;would like to return power to the people&rdquo;, a signal in the kingdom that a prime minister intends to dissolve parliament. His coalition backer, the People&rsquo;s Party, said Thursday it would submit a motion of no-confidence in Anutin, claiming Bhumjaithai broke its agreement during a crucial vote on constitutional amendments. &ldquo;They said they wouldn&rsquo;t support me anymore. They asked me to dissolve the house. I just followed their request,&rdquo; Anutin told reporters Friday outside the Government House. The cannabis-championing conservative took power in September with coalition backing conditional on dissolving parliament, becoming the kingdom&rsquo;s third leader in two years. He was once an ally of the influential political clan of Thaksin Shinawatra -- who have been a dominant force in Thai politics since the turn of the century, but are increasingly faltering after a succession of legal and political setbacks. Anutin abandoned his coalition with their Pheu Thai Party this summer in apparent outrage over former Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra&rsquo;s conduct during the border row with Cambodia. During his three months in office, Anutin has had to deal with the escalating military conflict, as well as attacks on scam hubs in Myanmar driving hundreds across the border into Thailand, and the death of the former queen Sirikit in October.

Asia

The move comes earlier than expected and just three months after Anutin Charnvirakul -- of the conservative Bhumjaithai party -- became prime minister when his predecessor was removed from office over an ethics violation.

Thai PM dissolves parliament, paving way for national elections

ISLAMABAD: The Indian environment minister&rsquo;s clarification in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) -- that widely cited global air-quality rankings are &quot;not conducted by any official [Indian] authority&quot; -- drew a sarcastic reaction from the Indian National Congress, which mocked the remarks in a post on X. India&rsquo;s major cities, including the capital Delhi, are frequently rated among the most polluted in global air quality indices.&nbsp; The Union government&rsquo;s clarification in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) on Thursday regarding global air-quality assessments sparked renewed discussion over how India evaluates its pollution levels.&nbsp; Responding to questions from Communist Party of India MP V Sivadasan, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party stated that no official global country-wise air-pollution ranking exists, and that widely quoted international indices, including the IQAir World Air Quality Report, WHO Global Air Quality Database, Environmental Performance Index and Global Burden of Disease metrics, are &ldquo;not conducted by any official authority.&rdquo; &#39;Only as guidance&#39;Singh noted that the World Health Organization&rsquo;s air-quality guidelines serve only as guidance, intended to help countries achieve better standards over time. He added that nations formulate their own air-quality benchmarks depending on geography, environmental factors, background levels, socio-economic conditions, and national circumstances.&nbsp; India follows its National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), notified in 2009, which specify limits for 12 pollutants; the ministry said that these are tailored to the country&rsquo;s specific conditions.&nbsp; The standards set the 24-hour permissible PM2.5 limit at 60 &micro;g/m&sup3;, which is four times the WHO&rsquo;s updated 2021 guideline. Delhi&rsquo;s air qualitySeparately, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav presented data on Delhi&rsquo;s air quality in response to another question.&nbsp; According to the government, &ldquo;Good to Moderate&rdquo; air-quality days (AQI &le;200) in the capital have actually risen from 110 days in 2016 to 200 days in 2025 (to date).&nbsp; The average AQI between January and November has improved from 213 in 2018 to 187 in 2025, and no day in 2025 has entered the &ldquo;Severe Plus&rdquo; category (AQI &gt;450), the ministry said.&nbsp; The ministry also reported that farm-fire incidents in Punjab and Haryana have fallen by around 90% in the 2025 paddy-harvesting season compared to 2022. The government said that it conducts the annual Swachh Vayu Survekshan, ranking 130 cities under the National Clean Air Programme based on the implementation of air-quality improvement measures. Congress&#39;s reaction&nbsp;The opposition quickly seized upon the government&rsquo;s responses.&nbsp; The Indian National Congress posted a sharp, sarcastic comment on X, mocking the minister&rsquo;s dismissal of global rankings: &ldquo;Our air is special kind of air. While other countries have only 20% Oxygen, we have 80% Oxygen and a little bit of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide. Same with our GDP, Exchange rate, and so on. 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India

The Indian government minister tells the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) that global air-quality rankings are unofficial and that India uses its own standards; opposition party Congress posted a sarcastic comment on social media mocking the minister’s stance.