Globe trot: India-built hospital opens in Nepal

A hospital built with grant assistance from India of about Rs 25 million was inaugurated at a village in Nepal’s Galyang city, about 250 km west of the capital. The hospital building of Galyang city in Syangja district built was inaugurated by Prasad Gautam, chief district coordinator and Avinash Kumar, first secretary at the Indian Embassy here on Friday. The hospital building was constructed under the Nepal India Development Cooperation, according tKathmanduo a press release issued by the Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.

Hong Kong’s first dinosaur fossils displayed

HONG KONG: The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying island, providing new evidence for research on palaeoecology in the financial hub.

The fossils, confirmed to be dated to the Cretaceous period some 145 million to 66 million years ago, need further study to confirm the dinosaur species, authorities said, but it was clear they were large vertebrate animals.

Astronaut hospitalised after return to Earth

WASHINGTON: A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, the US space agency said. The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida’s coast at 3:29 am ET on Friday aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule with three other crew members — two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut.

Taiwan V-P, Drag Race star join Pride march

TAIPEI: More than 1,80,000 people celebrated LGBTQ+ equality and diversity in Taipei on Saturday at east Asia’s largest Pride march, joined by Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim and the reigning queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nymphia Wind.