Chinese authorities in Tibet have expelled the disciplinarian at a key monastery and detained one of its monks as part of what sources there describe as a broad crackdown on the Dalai Lama's supporters, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
Nepalese Police have arrested 42 Tibetans who were trying to enter India. Mostly passengers without documents, the Tibetans were arrested from Halchowk in Kathmandu
His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave an interview yesterday to Betty Lin, a journalist for Chinese language daily, the World Journal, published from New York.
US lawmakers backed the Dalai Lama's drive to gain greater autonomy for Tibet and condemned alleged human rights abuses by Beijing in the Himalayan territory.
Continuing the conversation between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, and The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, on NDTV 24x7's Walk the Talk programme
A Jew and a Tibetan stood on the same stage. They both have known the hardship of exile. They both are refugees. They both have had to learn to carry their culture with them, away from their homelands.
As an expression of solidarity, members of the standing committee of the Assembly have donated two days' pay of their salary for the relief of quake victims in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
