New Delhi: Thirty-two students of Delhi University successfully completed the 80 Hours JobAbility program on 5 February. In addition to two students doing their post graduate studies and nine students in their second year in university, 20 students are in their final year and will be graduating (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration offered long life prayers (Tenshug) to His Eminence the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the head of Kamtsang Kagyu school of Kagyu tradition, during a ceremony at Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala on 4 February. Kalon Pema Chhinjor of the (...)
Article by: SUSAN HOGAN, Star Tribune / 4 February 2013 Despite a new leader of China’s Communist Party, human rights violations continue. China’s new leader continues to quash hope that the inhumane treatment of Tibetans living under Chinese rule would ease under his tenure. Instead, harsh (...)
Discusses India-Tibet-China Tri-relations BARODA, Gujarat: A seminar on ‘India-Tibet-China Tri-relations’ was held in the Deep Auditorium of Majaraja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU) on Monday (4 February). Over 200 students from the university comprising both Tibetans and Indians took part (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A prominent human rights organisation has criticised the Chinese government for carrying out widespread secret arrests and torture of Tibetans in custody and authoritarian control over all judicial institutions. The Human Rights Watch (HRW), in its World Report 2013 released (...)
Applications are invited for the post of ‘Facilitators’ for ‘Technology-based After-school Coaching Program’ in three Tibetan Schools. Coaching Facilitator will be placed in school to ‘run and monitor’ the Class XII After-School Coaching Program. (Facilitator will not teach in the classes; they will (...)
4th of February is being observed throughout the world as the World Cancer Day. Cancer refers to a group of illnesses that result from cells in the body growing abnormally. These cells divide and produce new cells in an uncontrolled way forming masses or tumors that can spread throughout the (...)
Editorial Opinion By: Andrea Paras [Toronto Star] As one of China’s top trade partners, Canada has a stake in ending Beijing’s abuses in Tibet. One morning last spring, Jamphel Yeshi left his apartment in the outskirts of New Delhi to attend a demonstration in protest of then Chinese President Hu (...)
By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Feb 4 (IANS): Why are Tibetans setting themselves afire in China? Protests against repression or a desperate attempt, as China holds, to get global attention to their cause? The reason is simple: a total failure of China’s policy in more than 60 years of its rule in (...)
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW [The New York Times] 3 February 2013 BEIJING — Since November, when cold winter began in the high Tibetan Plateau, thousands of Tibetan villagers have been gathering daily to pray for the souls of the nearly 100 Tibetans who have burned themselves to death in protest over (...)