DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dolma Gyari called on the state chief minister and other senior functionaries concerning the welfare of Tibetans living in and around Shimla. She visited the state capital from 28 February to 2 March. Kalon Dolma Gyari met Chief Minister Raja Virbhadra Singh to (...)
[International Campaign for Tibet] The U.S. State Department announced today that Tibetan writer and blogger Tsering Woeser is a winner of the 2013 International Women of Courage Award. Presenting this year’s award at the March 8 ceremony will be Secretary of State John Kerry and special guest (...)
By Malcolm Moore  [The Telegraph] 03 Mar 2013  BEIJING: The Communist party must improve its conduct or face extinction within a decade, Xi Jinping, China’s next president, has warned, as he prepares for his inauguration. Thousands of delegates streamed into Beijing over the weekend for the annual (...)
Zurich, 3 March: Kirti Rinpoche, the spiritual head of Kirti monastic community in Ngaba, Tibet, arrived in Switzerland on Friday. He is on a three weeklong visit of Europe to talk about the situation in Tibet, particularly in Ngaba region. In his address to the Tibetan community today, he spoke (...)
[By S Gopal Puri, The Times of India | Mar 4, 2013] DHARAMSHALA: In a fresh development in the ongoing operations of the forest department to clear illegal encroachments by Tibetans in McLeodganj, Tibetan authorities have urged the state government to regularize these lands, stating that (...)
The Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration hereby announce a job vacancy for one-year contractual staff for its Digitization and Archiving Project of the Tibet Museum. Position: Office Secretary Job description: Scanning Photographs, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Supporting Tibetan Political Leader Dr Lobsang Sangay’s visit to Canada on the floor of House, a member of Canadian Parliament and former minister has urged the government to press the Chinese government to hold dialogue with the Tibetan leadership to find a lasting solution to the (...)
[PTI / Washington] Amid ongoing incidents of self-immolation in Tibet, the US has asked Tibetans to end the voluntary sacrifice and called on the Chinese Government to permit them to express grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of retribution. “We remain concerned by the (...)
DHARAMSHAA: The Central University of Himachal Pradesh in the northern India honoured Tibet’s spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with an honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at its first convocation ceremony, at Shahpur near Dharamsala, on 28 (...)
By Anand Bodh [The Times of India / 3 March 2013] SHIMLA: For the first time in the history of Tibetan government-in-exile, its prime minister would now move in a vehicle flashing a red beacon atop. Led by their spiritual leader Dalai Lama, the Tibetans had come to Dharamshala in 1960 and set (...)