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Dreaming Lhasa will be the first Tibetan film to be screened in a commercial cinema hall in India, reports Voice of Tibet radio service. The film that won international appreciation at film

A total of 45,000 people visited Yonghe Lamasery to pray for happiness in the new year, up 16 percent over that for the first day of last traditional Chinese New Year, according to figures released by the Holiday Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal Government.

The inimitable Richard Quest and his team visited Dharamsala to interview His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The interview took place on 28 January and its main theme was spiritualism.

This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama departed for Pathankot to attend the event for commemoration of the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Google, the giant internet search company, is to lead industry opposition to new proposals from the European Commission to regulate online content.

Tibet as a theme has inspired filmmakers, especially documentary makers, for decades. Indigenously made Tibetan films were, however, a rarity.

The president of the Tibetan Youth Congress has resigned with effect from 26 January 2006. The resignation was announced yesterday by the president himself at a press conference at Ladakh Buddh

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), who chairs the House International Relations Committee's Subcomittee on "Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations," has announced that he is going to hold a hearing on February 16, 2006

The Grammy has finally caught up with religion. Buddhist chants from the remote village of Thembang in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district have have made it to the nominations for the Grammy Award 2005.

In spite of the intervention by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Rehabilitation Division) in the year 2000, in getting certain areas of land allotted to Tibetan Refugees' Handicraft Union members for selling their woollen goods in the city