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World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia

2:14 pm January 14, 2021

New Delhi: Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave art — a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was painted at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to this Indonesian island. The finding, published on […]

Prachanda accuses Oli of dissolving Parliament at India’s direction

10:57 pm January 13, 2021

Kathmandu : Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, the Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party’s splinter faction, on Wednesday accused Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli of splitting the ruling party and dissolving Parliament at India’s direction. Addressing leaders and cadres of his faction at the Nepal Academy Hall in the capital, Prachanda said that Prime Minister Oli had in the recent past accused that ”some leaders […]

Indonesian searchers hunt for crashed plane’s voice recorder

3:25 pm January 13, 2021

Jakarta: Divers searching for a crashed jet’s cockpit voice recorder were sifting through mud and plane debris on the seabed between Indonesian islands on Wednesday to retrieve information key to learning why the Sriwijaya Air jet nosedived into the Java Sea over the weekend. Indonesian navy divers on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from the jet that disappeared […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

China sees spike in coronavirus cases ahead of WHO team visit to probe COVID-19 origins

1:46 pm January 13, 2021

Beijing: China’s COVID-19 cases crossed the 100-mark for the first time in recent months, ahead of Thursday’s visit of the WHO team to Wuhan to probe the origins of the coronavirus. The number of coronavirus cases in China climbed to 115 on Tuesday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Wednesday, adding that 107 of the infections were locally […]

26 missing, at least 13 dead in Indonesia landslides

1:04 pm January 12, 2021

Jakarta: Rescuers are searching for 26 people still missing after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday. At least 13 people were killed and 29 others injured in the landslides that were triggered by heavy rain on Sunday in Cihanjuang, a village in West Java’s Sumedang district. Some of the […]