DHARAMSHALA: One more Tibetan has self-immolated in restive Ngaba region in northeastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province) to protest against the repressive policies of the Chinese government. The total number of self-immolation protest has risen to 126, including two this year. (...)
[Businessweek] By Christina Larson The climate of Tibet has been anomalous over the past fifty years, although perhaps not in an expected way: The high plateaus of northeastern Tibet have seen some of their wettest years in several millennia over the past five decades, according to a paper by (...)
BANGALORE: A delegation of representatives of the five Tibetan settlements in Karnataka state led by the Chief Representative, South Zone, Mr Karma Singey, yesterday paid a courtesy visit to new Chief Secretary Mr Kaushik Mukherjee at his office in Vidhana Soudha (State Legislative Assembly) in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay today opened the first-ever conference of Tibetan handicraft centres located across India and Nepal in Dharamshala. Over 28 representatives from 16 handicraft centres across India and Nepal are participating in the two-day conference being presided over by (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education has announced scholarships for the following academic programmes. Click below for details: 1. Scholarships for 2014 higher studies for class XII graduates 2. Gaden Phodrang scholarship 3. Training for Engineering and MBBS entrance exams 4. B.Sc. Program (...)
TMS card holders will get 10% discount at Mentseekhang from 1st April 2014 DHARAMSHALA: Health Kalon Dr. Tsering Wangchuk launched an awareness campaign on Tibetan Medicare System in Dharamsala yesterday. It was attended by the local settlement officer, representatives of various Tibetan (...)
[PTI] NEW DELHI: India and China must throw their doors wide open for people-to-people contacts as a “meeting of minds” would help build solid and friendly bilateral ties, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said. “We are neighbours. We are strategic partners. We are ancient civilisations. Historically, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Microsoft’s search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China, Britain leading daily, The Guardian, reports. According to searches conducted by anti-censorship campaigners at FreeWeibo, a (...)
Project aims to create science learning centers in India, while also fostering solar power and clean water. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office To many Westerners, science, monks, and technology may not be an obvious trio. But to Tenzin Prayadarshi and others at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for (...)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking to a group who had come from Mongolia to offer him Mongolian New Year’s greetings at his residence in Dharamshala, India on 11 February 2014/Photo/OHHDL