While many took to cooking and even baking at home amid Covid-19 pandemic, a new report on Friday revealed that Indians made 5.5 lakh (550,000) orders for chicken biryani during the nationwide lockdown

The curriculum board of Pakistan's Punjab province has imposed an immediate ban on at least 100 books with a plan of banning many more being taught in private schools for carrying blasphemous and anti-Pakistan content

Theatre artists across Lahore have taken to the streets to protest against the indefinite closure of halls in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic

The US Embassy, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), recently released a song, titled "Joy Hobe"  to recognise and thank Bangladesh's frontline workers who deliver essential services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

Five Indian innovators have made it to the second batch of Fashion for Goods South Asia Innovation Programme, the organisation announced on Thursday

A poor family in Himachal Pradesh state in India had to sell their cow, a substantial source of income, for just Rs 6,000 to buy a smartphone so that their two children could stay connected with online studies amid the COVID-19 lockdown

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday asked Bollywood to renounce its "links" with Pakistan's spy agency ISI after pictures of several film stars posing with known anti-India activists abroad surfaced on social media

The Baloch­istan government on Wednesday handed over a 200-year-old gurdwara to the Sikh community

Afghanistan's Ministry of Information and Culture says that an international five-star hotel in Kabul owes them 168 million dollars

Wedding halls in Kabul city are reopening for receptions even as the deadly coronavirus is still threatening lives across the country

The Humane Society International-India has announced a reward of Rs 50,000 to anyone providing information leading to the arrest of an unidentified man who had burnt alive a kitten in Hyderabad

In Pakistan, the business of livestock -- cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats and camels - reaches its peak when the entire country is filled with cattle markets with sellers thronging with sacrificial animals for sale before the Eid-ul-Azha

The federal and Punjab governments have decided to start inducing people who are transgender in the public sector, including the police department

At least 2,582 cases of violence against women were registered in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2020

It was a heartbreaking decision for Nargis Akter to make. Burdened with unpaid bills, she had no other choice but to put her school up for sale