National Herald In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world’s biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for climate change across the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s ‘third pole’. It says climate (...)
Maj Gen SB Asthana for First Post The 13th round of Corps Commander level talks between India and China ending at an awkward note was not a surprise to anyone analysing Chinese activities prior to the talks. The talks happened in the backdrop of recent incidents of intrusions by Chinese troops (...)
Washington DC: At a virtual address to the graduate students of University of Rhodes Island, Representative Ngodup Tsering spoke in length about the Four Principal commitments of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on Tuesday, 12th October 2021. Professor Kristin Johnson of Political Science and (...)
The Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, successfully launched its pilot telepsychiatry project IMPACT-T (Improving Access through Telepsychiatry in the Tibetan settlements) on the World Mental Health Day last Sunday, 10 October. This year’s theme was “Promoting wellbeing during (...)
By Tenzin Tseten, Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) – 8 October 2021 In the midst of leadership reshuffle ahead of the much-awaited once-in-a-decade leadership transition during the forthcoming 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based (...)
By Brad Lendon, CNN – 13 October 2021 Hong Kong (CNN)China’s increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait may have grabbed all the headlines in recent weeks, but thousands of miles to the west, another simmering territorial dispute on the country’s borders looks more likely to boil over first. (...)
Dharamshala: Shimla United FC lifts the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup for the first time after knocking down TCB Bir United with a 3-2 scoreline. Dekyiling Tibetan Settlement Officer Dhondup Gyalpo attended the tournament’s final match as the Chief Guest along with a huge number of Tibetan (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered his profound greetings on the 25th anniversary of the Forum 2000 conference held in Prague from 10 – 12 October 2021. The Forum 2000 was founded in 1996 as a joint initiative of the late Czech President Václav Havel, Japanese philanthropist Yohei (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join youth leaders from conflict-affected regions for a two-day online conversation on Compassion, Education, and Equality from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on October 14-15, 2021. The program is organised through the Generation Change (...)
Dharamshala: Tibetan Youth Congress, one of the largest Tibetan non-governmental organisations based in exile, hosted a gala dinner at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) on Tuesday, 12 October. The chief guest at the reception was His Excellency Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, (...)