DHARAMSHALA: As a result of Home Kalon Mrs. Gyari Dolma’s meeting with Jawed Habib last year, Mr. Jawed Habib agreed to extend his assistance to upgrade the beauty and hair dressing training and certification at ISTL (Institute for Small Trade Learning) Nelamangala, Bangalore. Youth Empowerment (...)
Keith Zhai, South China Morning Post Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes his meetings with the leaders of China and Japan at the Sochi Winter Olympics will push his country further into Asia, analysts say. President Xi Jinping met Putin on Thursday, while Japan’s Shinzo Abe met him yesterday. (...)
Guwahati: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay addressed the closing ceremony of Tibet Festival which was held from 2 to 6 February 2014, in Kalashetra, Guwahati. Other dignitaries present during the ceremony were Pema Khandu, Minister of Tourism and Rural Work Development of Arunachal Pradesh, Gaurav (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Phagmo Samdrup, a 27-year-old Tibetan set himself on fire at Tsekhog (incorporated into China’s Qinghai Province) in an apparent protest against the repressive policies of the Chinese government on Wednesday. It was the first Tibetan self-immolation protest of 2014, taking the total (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Kashag secretariat has issued a notification regarding the issuance of approval letter for fresh Identity Certificate (IC) for Tibetans living in India. ( Click here to read the original announcement in Tibetan.) In case of any discrepancy, the original announcement in Tibetan (...)
NEW DELHI: Tibetan political leader Dr. Lobsang Sangay delivered talk on democracy in exile and the case of Tibet at the National Law University and Judicial Academy, one of the India’s top national law universities, located in Guwahati on 5 February. In his introductory address, the registrar (...)
Declaration by High Representative Catherine Ashton on behalf of the European Union regarding the treatment of human rights defenders and their relatives in China The EU has welcomed recent decisions by the Chinese authorities to deepen the reform of the justice system and to uphold the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Scottish Parliament on 4 February held a lengthy debate on the wave of self-immolations in Tibet. The debate was held as part of a motion proposed by Maureen Watt, a Scottish politician and member of Parliament, to highlight the extraordinary and distressing situation (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Dr Tsering Wangchuk, Kalon of the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration today inaugurated the new private OPD (Outpatient Department) of the Tibetan Delek hospital. The inauguration was also attended by Health Secretary Shosur Sonam Choephel. Speaking at the (...)
Budget session to be held from 11-22 March DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will inaugurate the new building of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on 11 March 2014, according to a circular issued by the parliamentary secretariat on 4 February. In view of the inauguration, the dates for the (...)