DHARAMSHALA: World TB Day was marked in Dharamsala on Sunday, 23 March, at TCV day school, McleodGanj. This year’s TB day theme “Reach the 3 million”, as designated by WHO, emphasizes the need for greater global effort to reach about 3 million TB infected people who currently don’t have access to (...)
[Associated Press/The Guardian] First lady spoke to students at Peking University during a week-long trip in China aimed at promoting educational exchanges Michelle Obama on Saturday told students in China, which has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on the internet, that freedom of (...)
New Delhi, India, 22 March 2014 – On a bright spring morning today in the Indian capital His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with almost 260 students as well as 40 teachers and principals from13 Delhi schools including the Step by Step School, Mount Abu School, Salwan Public School, Springdales (...)
[The Economist] A plea to China SIR – Following the tragic killing of 29 innocent people in Kunming, and the self immolation of 120 Tibetans in recent months, you pronounced that “the only way forward” is for China to show Uighurs and Tibetans “how they can live peacefully and prosperously together (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A brutally tortured Tibetan political prisoner died from grievous injuries sustained in prison, just a few months after being released from prison on medical grounds by Chinese authorities. Goshul Lobsang, 43, died on 19 March at his family home in Machu county in Kanlho Tibetan (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Leading international rights group, the Human Rights Watch, has strongly criticised China for refusing to accept the recommendations to ease human rights situation during the 17th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last year. “In light of the March 14 death in Beijing of (...)
[USA Today] BEIJING – The U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama called on China Saturday to respect universal rights including freedom of expression and religion, and open access to information. Her week-long trip, focused on education, embraces pandas, ping-pong and people-to-people diplomacy, but she (...)
[Source: dalailama.com] New Delhi, India, 21 March 2014 – On behalf of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility, Rajiv Mehrotra welcomed His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a gathering of about 320 people in New Delhi today. He said they were blessed and honoured that he was with them again and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Fortune, a leading world magazine, has chosen Tibet’s spiritual leader for its list of world’s 50 greatest leaders, extolling his “more than five decades of tireless campaign for peace, nonviolence, democracy, and reconciliation, especially among world religions.” His Holiness the (...)
[DU beat/The Times of India] His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama visited Lady Shri Ram College of Women in New Delhi on 20 March. Talking about morality, ethics and the idea of a healthy inner-self, he spoke on “Success, Ethics and Happiness”. Initially scheduled to start at 12: 30, the spiritual (...)