Chai's romance with the subcontinent goes way back...
Many a match made in heaven are solidified over a cup of chai; best friends are made over a cup of chai; office breaks (like the ones we enjoyed at the Haroon House of the '90s) have led to lasting friendships over cups...
TEHRAN: Iran's state media say heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed 11 people in a mountainous area in the country's north...
State television says authorities fear more casualties from the Sunday evening floods in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin...
In a first for the southern Indian state of Telangana, two men celebrated their same-sex union with a wedding ceremony on Saturday...
The event, which took place on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad, was attended by close friends, family and members of the LGBTQ community...
Once the most ubiquitous part of Karachi’s heritage, Irani ‘hotels’ are fast disappearing from the urban landscape...
The latter moved to the state of Hyderabad in large numbers...
KARACHI: The trend of enjoying tea outside home is now changing fast...
New breeds of investors are gradually firming up their position against the decades-old tea stalls, mostly owned by Pakhtuns
And now breaking into this scene dominated by international coffee chains is Lahore’s Chai Kada promising no nonsense traditional Punjabi dhaba food...
Everything from the cafe’s name to the cheeky Punjabi inscriptions on the walls are a celebration of lowbrow culture and Pakistan’s collective love for chai...
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Pakistan is scrambling for the safe return of the crew of a crashed helicopter from Afghanistan purportedly kidnapped by the Taliban...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the government is exhausting "formal and informal channels" for recovery of the passengers
So popular has tea become now that a number of restaurants market themselves as tea houses including Naan Chaaye, Chaaye Khana and Pappu Chai Wala, all of which are located in Bahria Town’s main civic centre...
Traditional chai – made with tea leaves, water, sugar and milk – has always been a popular beverage in this part of the world and China is known as the home of tea...
The growing popularity of tea led to chai-wallahs similar to the ones in other countries such as England, China, Nepal, Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Central Asian Republics...
In post-independent Karachi, Irani cafes, tea shops and chai-wallahs catered to different sectors of population and carried on the culture of tea houses...
Chai (or teh susu as it is called in Malay) is also often served in Pakistani households — even though it is usually made differently than in Pakistan...
AHMEDABAD: US President Donald Trump on Monday managed to mangle his pronunciation of several Indian names and a Hindi word on an otherwise successful first day of his state visit to India...
Cheered by more than 100,000 people at the opening of the world’s largest cricket stadium, Trump tried to praise his host, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for achieving high office despite his humble origins as a tea seller, or “chai wala”...
KARACHI: Tea blenders are flexing their muscles to increase prices of the commodity as one of the leading packers has informed the retailers about the new rates effective from the last week of this month...
A retailer said that Unilever Pakistan Limited has shared a price list in which the new rates of Lipton 90gm, 190gm, 475gm and 950gm packs are Rs150, Rs290, Rs699 and Rs1,350 as compared to Rs140, Rs270, Rs650 and Rs1,250
It is not just cross-border involvement but also the activities of banned outfits at home that raises questions about how much control the state really has within its own domain...
Then there is also the question of whether or not we are really serious about getting rid of all violent non-state actors that have become a pervasive challenge to state authority...
An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan...
Interviews with more than two dozen RSS and BJP officials and rare access to closed RSS meetings reveal a two-stage strategy — electoral victory at the national level, which has been achieved in the lower house of parliament, followed by similar success at the state level...
The lever between the two is the logic of the state itself, and it seems to be evolving...
It is not a coincidence that the state is negotiating Fata reforms and direct governance in the tribal areas at the same moment that it is making laws to address violence against women in the home...