DHARAMSHALA: A Chinese court has handed down harsh prison sentences to three Tibetans for taking part in a protest following a self-immolation incident in Golog in northeastern Tibet last year, a confirmed report coming out of Tibet say. The court in Siling (incorporated to China’s Qinghai (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay yesterday addressed a ‘Public Health’ workshop organised by the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration at the Hotel Tibet, Dharamshala. Sikyong Dr Sangay spoke about the importance of health and the role nurses play in Tibetan schools. He said (...)
By Vinay Kumar [The Hindu] The Army unit will take care of India’s operational gaps along the Line of Actual Control The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday gave its in-principle approval to the Army’s ambitious proposal to raise a mountain strike corps along the China border. At a (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Details slowly trickling from Tibet reveal a dramatic increase in the number of Tibetans shot and injured during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 78th birthday celebration in Tawu region of eastern Tibet. Leading Tibetan Rights groups now put the figure to at least 14 Tibetans who were (...)
BODH GAYA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay reached the holy Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, northern Indian state of Bihar this morning from Delhi. This visit comes in the backdrop of the series of bomb blasts that rocked the world famous Mahabodhi Temple on July 7th. Immediately upon his (...)
[Spiegel Online] By Andreas Lorenz The files, stored on three CDs, are potentially devastating to the Chinese government. They contain the reckoning of a Tibetan who once believed in the goals of the Chinese Communist Party and carved out a career within the Beijing bureaucracy. To protect his (...)
BODH GAYA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay reached the holy Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, northern Indian state of Bihar this morning from Delhi. This visit comes in the backdrop of the series of bomb blasts that rocked the world famous Mahabodhi Temple on July 7th. Immediately upon his (...)
Zurich – 16 July: Ms. Maya Graf, the Speaker of the Swiss Parliament, met with Mr. Penpa Tsering, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile based in Dharamsala in Zurich yesterday. The two speakers met informally over lunch in Zurich. Mr. Penpa Tsering briefed Ms. Maya Graf of the present (...)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama being given a traditional Tibetan welcome on his arrival at Central School for Tibetans Hunsur to inaugurate their new hall in the Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, Karnataka, India on 14 July 2013. Photo/Tenzin Taklha/OHHDL His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving a talk to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Health Kalon Dr Tsering Wangchuk inaugurated a five-day workshop on public health organised by the health department in Dharamsala from 15 -19 July. Around 18 nurses from Tibetan schools across India and Nepal are attending the workshop. The workshop is being conducted by a team of (...)