NNW Bureau

East Bengal booked their place in the AFC Champions League Two 2026-27 group stage with a 4-1 extra-time win over Al-Arabi SC, while FC Goa were relegated to the AFC Challenge League after a 3-0 …

Reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem will skip the Lausanne Diamond League 2026 on August 21 and undergo a two-week training stint in South Africa instead as he looks to regain form ahead of next …

India may head into the upcoming FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 as underdogs, but head coach Craig Fulton believes that is exactly where his team wants to be. The Indian men’s hockey team is currently ranked …

The Ministry of Education of Honduras, with the support of the Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination (CECC-SICA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Inter-American Development …

Following the first regional workshop in Indonesia in 2025, UNESCO, with the support of Temasek Foundation, convened the next phase of its Embracing Shared Heritage through Performing Arts initiative in Singapore and Malaysia. The …

How can countries sustain growth when the conditions that powered earlier development gains are becoming less reliable? That question anchored the Growth Academy, co-hosted by the World Bank Group’s Institute …

As a graduate student of business management, Nistha Kayastha from Bhaktapur, Nepal, took a part-time job as an accountant at a textile company. It was there that she first saw …

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), one in five people report experiencing or knowing of sextortion — the exchange of sex, rather than money, for a public service — …

Most parents who hit their children don’t believe it works. That is a striking finding to emerge from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), a global data collection effort covering dozens …

Commodity booms are easy to celebrate but hard to manage. For resource-rich economies, commodity windfalls—if managed well—can finance investment, strengthen public finances and lift growth (Figure 1A). Poorly managed, they …