The sun has shied away to welcome the first winter rainfalls which was immediately followed by a much awaited but untimely snowfall in this crowded hilltown of Himachal Pradesh.
Firefighting teams of soldiers and Tibetan villagers put out a forest fire late Friday that burned for two days in the Himalayan region, an official said.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is making a brief trip to Asia including a stopover in China, where he is expected to seek cooperation on North Korea and Iraq and raise human rights issues.
A six-day international conference will be held at the University of Calgary in a bid to inspire the public to take action on the plight of Tibet's people.
A year after its formation, Students For a Free Tibet (SFT) Delhi chapter, as a part of their Tibet awareness campaign, organized the Tibet Awareness Concert yesterday at Delhi University’s Hindu College auditorium.
Tashi is serene. He is also self-confident but lacks the arrogance of many self-confident men. He is compassionate, content with his life and certain of his place in life and his religion.
Tibetan refugees staged a peace march here on Thursday in a bid to draw attention to the plight of Tibetans in China. Organised jointly by the Himalayan Committee for Action on Tibet and India Tibet Friendship Society, the march for world peace would extend to Sikkim and Tripura.
China couldn't have wished for better times to project its international image. With the United States preoccupied with Iraq and terrorism, Beijing exudes an image of serenity and quiet confidence.
