ZURICH, June 1: Confederations Cup host Russia dropped two places to No. 63 team in the new FIFA rankings on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, March 20: Hamad International Airport (HIA), home and hub of Qatar Airways, has been ranked as sixth best airport in the world. Issuing a statement, Qatar Airways said that HIA has been ranked sixth in the 2017 Skytrax World Airport Awards.

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: The latest international report has ranked Kathmandu as the seventh worst place among 290 cities in the world in terms of severity of pollution.

Pakistan has been ranked as a country with “serious” hunger level with 22 per cent of its population undernourished on the 2016 Global Hunger Index released Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, July 14: The FIFA ranking made public on Thursday has placed Nepal in the 188th position.

KATHMANDU, June 29: Nepal has been ranked the 33rd most fragile state in the world among 168 nations and third most fragile state among eight south Asian nations, according to the Fragile States Index (FSI) 2016, created by The Fund for Peace and Published by Foreign Policy magazine.

Founder Chairperson/Principal of Xavier Academy Prof. Dr. Sriram Bhagut Mathe has over 40 years of experience as an architect and teacher. Mathe recently spoke to Praveen Kumar Yadav of Republica and shared his views regarding higher education in the country.