Hunsur: Joining the fight to control the raging coronavirus pandemic from subsuming the exile Tibetan community, the settlement offices under the leadership of the Central COVID Committee, is expanding all efforts to inoculate the Tibetans along with other initiatives being carried out. As (...)
The Central Tibetan Administration has learnt about the demise of a former political prisoner in Lhasa in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region. According to our source, Dhondup Dorjee, who spent years behind bars after campaigning for human rights of the Tibetan people, passed away on 25 (...)
Dharamshala: As per request from the Election Commission to hold an oath-taking ceremony, Chief Justice Commissioner Sonam Norbu Dagpo has appointed Sonam Phuntsok, former President of Tibetan Freedom Movement as the acting Tibetan Local Justice Commissioner to administer the oath as per the (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration today received a virtual audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. During the online audience, Sikyong apprised His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his first official visit as Sikyong to Leh and Jhangthang regions of (...)
Dharamshala: The Department of Home has announced a commercial lease contract of a shop at Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala. The shop is The shop is available for rent for both Tibetan individuals and organisations, and is located below the old Reception Center in Mcleod Ganj. See the original (...)
Dharamshala: The Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration will felicitate ten Tibetan students with the prestigious Gaden Phodrang award this year. The award will be presented during the official ceremony to celebrate Tibetan Democracy Day on 2 September. The Gaden Phodrang (...)
Dharamshala: Members of CTA’s Covid-19 Task Force Committee successfully conclude their visitation to Tibetan settlements across Himachal Pradesh. The delegation embarked on a four-day inspection tour of the settlements from 26-30 August where they covered every Tibetan settlement spread across (...)
Dharamshala : As invited by the Local Indian Pradhan, Thupten Chophel, the Tibetan Settlement Officer of Kullu Manali, and Paljor, the Vice President of the local Tibetan Assembly went to greet Shri Jai Ram Thakur, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, at 15 Mile in Manali on Saturday, 25 August (...)
Dharamshala: A delegation of Covid 19 Emergency Task Force members comprising of Education Secretary Jigme Namgyal, TMAI Director Tashi Tsering Phuri, Dr Rinzin Sangmo from Mentseekhang, and Tenzin Wangdak, staff of the Department of Health visited the Tibetan community in Kullu Manali as part (...)
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service and by the Uyghur Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Rights groups called on the world on Monday to remember the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and members of other groups who have been forcibly “disappeared” at (...)