Asha leaves behind a legacy that is as much ours as it is India’s. The phrase “Nightingale of Asia” was coined for Lata, In Pakistan, we always had a prefix for Asha: “Hamari Nightingale.” Our nightingale. In her passing, Pakistan has lost a friend, a teacher, and a voice that made the world feel a little less divided.
The global music industry, where millions of songs are sung, and billions are spent and earned, is a larger story. But the duo’s role as singers remains iconic in India, and perhaps South Asia, where numerous others have come, stayed to make music, and gone.
The Korean noodle story is not really about noodles. It is about what happens when cultural influence travels faster than commercial infrastructure and faster than regulatory awareness. India's Gen Z - and possibly that of other South Asian countries - did not wait for brands to tell them what to eat. They watched K-dramas, did spice challenges, and built market demand that brands, regulators, and consumer education campaigns have simply not kept up with.
The Sufi Storyteller speaks to a wider South Asian moment, where Sufi traditions are increasingly invoked as counterpoints to narrowing religious and cultural orthodoxies. By foregrounding storytelling as both a spiritual and political act, Mansab gestures toward the enduring power of narrative to sustain pluralism, recover marginalized voices, and imagine more expansive forms of belonging.
The inaugural World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand next month is promising to be a blockbuster event with spectators likely to be allowed, though in a restricted capacity, at the Rose Bowl in England’s Southampton, the port city on England's south coast about 110 km from London
As COVID-19 puts Pakistan’s health system under stress, tens of thousands of women doctors are sitting at home, their talents squandered in a country where millions have no access to medical care, Pakistan Today reported
National Cricket Academy head and former India captain Rahul Dravid is set to be the head coach of the Indian white-ball squad that will tour Sri Lanka in July
2021 Asia Cup has been called off due to rising COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka, country’s cricket board chief Ashley de Silva announced
Moving closer to shifting the remaining PSL matches to Abu Dhabi, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Thursday that it had received all outstanding approvals and exemptions from the United Arab Emirates government
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shifted the remaining matches of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) season six to the United Arab Emirates amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Pakistan, Tribune reported
Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly has perhaps turned emotional and nostalgic going through one of the pictures from his playing days
The devastating economic fallout of COVID-19 does not spare museums too. As the world marks International Museums Day on May 18, IBNS correspondent Supriyo Hazra caught up with Vinod Daniel, Member, Board, International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris
An international expedition abandoned its attempt to scale Mount Everest, citing risks posed by an increasing number of COVID-19 cases at the base camp, The Himalayan Times reported
To ensure high-speed internet connectivity at the world’s second tallest peak K2 base camp, the Pakistan government has installed a 4G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in the base camp area of Concordia
Sonia Naz has become Pakistan’s first transgender person to start her own fashion designing business after getting a soft loan of Rs 1 million under the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES)
Sakina Abbas, 25, from Karachi, is one of the few women in Pakistan who defied norms and studied computer sciences, and is now the country’s first female Google Developers Experts for Flutter
Indian director Bratya Basu’s film 'Dictionary' has bagged the Gautam Buddha Award in the Best Feature Film category in the Nepal International Film Festival
Former England captain Michael Vaughan slammed former Pakistan opener Salman Butt, after the latter questioned his remarks on New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson and Indian captain Virat Kohli, Tribune reported
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided not to press charges under its anti-corruption code against any of the participants featuring in a documentary broadcast by Al Jazeera that alleged two Test matches featuring India had been ‘fixed’
