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The 9 activists of the Tibetan Youth Congress who were earlier arrested for protesting the Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit to India have been released yesterday. The activists were protesting on Monday outside the Hotel Taj Mansingh Palace in the Indian capital

Taktser Rinpoche Thupten Jigme Norbu’s body will be cremated today with ceremonial Buddhist rituals. Family members told Indystar.com, an online news portal that they were given special

17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee, who is on a religious visit to Ladakh, inaugurated a school here in Leh yesterday. The school has been built with support from His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Charitable Trust and managed by Nalanda Dharma

Crown Prince of Norway His Royal Highness Haakon Magnus will be present at the opening of the Summit. Numerous domestic and international experts and dignitaries will attend the Summit, including Nobel Peace Laureates Mairead Maguire, (1976) and H.E. Kim Dae-Jung

Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian Uhomohbhi of Nigeria, the President of the UN Human Rights Council, this morning overruled an attempt by a Chinese delegate to interrupt a statement on Tibet by a German NGO. A member of Society for Threatened Peoples was

The Nepalese government said it would investigate the status of Tibetans involved in anti-China protests and deport them if they were staying in the country illegally, the

43 Tibetans were arrested earlier today by the Nepalese police. The Tibetans were staging a protest demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy's visa section to mark

"Human freedom, human rights and human dignity must be respected in any society", Václav Havel. The former president of the Czech Republic was addressing the Asia-Pacific Security Challenges

The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, arrived in Leh, Ladhak, early this morning to begin a nine-day “Dharma tour” of the predominantly Buddhist region of India

The nine TYC activists who protested outside Taj Mansingh Hotel yesterday have been moved to Tihar Jail. They were rallying against Chinese Foreign Minister Yang