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 (...)
Dharamshala: World Hepatitis Day is commemorated annually on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and hepatocellular cancer. This year’s theme is “Hepatitis Can’t Wait”. With a person dying every 30 seconds worldwide from a (...)
CLAUDE ARPI, The Quint. 27 July 2021. The Chinese President’s discreet ‘inspection tour’ complicates things for India and Tibetan refugees. President Xi Jinping is back in Beijing from an “inspection tour” of Central and Southern Tibet. He went to Lhasa after a gap of ten years, though he had (...)