Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes is in Beijing on a week-long official tour of China.
The two Asian rivals will be reviewing relations that have been marred by a long-running border dispute and mutual distrust.
A Five member delegation from the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies will meet the ‘All party Indian parliamentary group for Tibet’ (APIPGT) on the 24th of April in Delhi. The Tibetan Assembly delegation is headed by the Vice-Chairperson Ms. Gyari Dolma.
Showing remnants of the torture he endured as a political prisoner, Palden Gyatso — the second−longest serving political prisoner in Tibet — testified to Chinese human rights violations Friday before a crowd of about 100 students.
The exiled Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche called on India to help resolve the Tibetan issue. "A process of dialogue is going on between our government (the Dalai Lama's exiled Tibetan government) and the Chinese leadership," Rinpoche said Sunday.
A factory making hydroelectric equipment in China's northern Qinghai province has used a Tibetan political prisoner as forced labor, the London-based Tibet Information Network (TIN) said Saturday.
His cosy little basement office is lined with rows and rows of books, mostly on religion and spirituality; photographs of the Dalai Lama share a comfortable space all over with those of Ramakrishna Paramhansa's and yet, filmmaker Rajiv Mehrotra prefers to call himself an "undeserving spiritual aspirant".
