Dharamshala: The 70th Covid-19 Task Force briefing issued renewed appeals for preventive measures, particularly, public participation in the mass vaccination drive as new variants of the COVID-19 surface globally. Following the weekly mass testing of 708 people across India and Nepal, the exile (...)
WASHINGTON — More than 100 Nobel laureates are expressing outrage over what they say was an attempt by the Chinese government to “bully the scientific community” earlier this year by seeking to censor two Nobel laureates during the Nobel Prize Summit in April held by the National Academies of (...)
Lokmat With the Ladakh tensions in the focus, China has stepped up mind-games with India by demonstrating qualitative improvements in its firepower in Tibet, ahead of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Dushanbe where his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe will also be present. The duo is (...)
Dharamshala: Bir Dege Settlement Office held the handing-taking over ceremony for the outgoing and new Settlement Officers, Sey Cheme Dorje Jhagoetsang and Mr. Tsering Phuntsok Lomotsang respectively. The brief ceremony was witnessed by Mrs. Pema Youdon (Deputy Secretary), Tibetan Settlement (...)
Dharamshala: National Testing Agency (NTA) has confirmed the test date for NEET UG 2021 to be conducted on September 12, 2021. With regard to this, the Department of Education also extends the application submission deadline for MBBS Reserved seats till 20th September (...)
Robert Barnett for Foreign Policy In April 1998, with the Himalayan passes still more than 6 feet deep in snow, Penpa Tsering, a 22-year-old Tibetan herder, set off to the south from his home in Tibet across a remote 15,700-foot-high pass called the Namgung La. He was leading a train of a dozen (...)
After receiving information about a livestock epidemic in Duchik nomadic settlement, the Department of Home reached out to the Chief Representative’s Office in Ladakh to assess the situation. Between 4 and 23 July, 704 livestock have perished due to an illness causing severe difficulties to the (...)
dalailama.com Lord Richard Layard, Professor at the London School of Economics and founder of ‘Action for Happiness’, welcomed His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a conversation this morning about ‘Creating a Happier World’. He told him that today marks the tenth anniversary of the start of ‘Action for (...)
Nepal: The Tibetans in Nepal’s Choejor settlement were inoculated the Johnson and Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 aided by the U.S. In addition to the heads of the settlement, the inoculation campaign was attended by various local officials and dignitaries. To be able to receive the first-ever (...)
Reuters, Simon Lewis – 28 July 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said, a move that is likely to provoke anger in China. Blinken met briefly with Ngodup (...)