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China's massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan. Over the last decade, China nearly doubled the length of its road transport network in Tibet to nearly 40,000 km.

In a lengthy essay, entitled "Tibet Facing Imperialism of Two Kinds: An Analysis of the Woeser Incident", Wang Lixiong, one of Mainland China's foremost researchers on Tibet, argues that the persecution of Woser, a Tibetan writer

An Indian team will visit Beijing later this month for talks with Chinese authorities. The two sides will discuss the structural measures required on Parechu river in Tibet to prevent floods.

As many as 10 shops, most of them selling garments and antiques, one restaurant and a hotel, all belonging to Tibetans, were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the McLeodganj market at 3.30 am today.

A massive fire broke out this morning around 3.30 in McLeod Ganj setting ablaze nine shops, a restaurant, a hotel cum restaurant, an office and five residential houses, all belonging to Tibetans.

Seated on a rickety chair by a computer, with his back to rows of books on the Dalai Lama and excited activists, 39-year-old Lobsang Nyandak Zayul is a worried man.

Officially atheist China, criticised overseas for its intolerance of religion, has announced new rules enshrining religious belief as a basic human right as it confronts social and economic change.

A professor at Black Hills State University has been picked to be part of a program that teaches science to monastic scholars in India.

The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to allow the Tibetan community living in the state to draw ration from fair price shops on permits.

Residents of the Ladakhi capital are celebrating the famous 'Losar' or New Year festival in the belief that the Gods would be pleased and the evil spirits would be waved off. Losar is being celebrated two months in advance to the actual new year as per tradition.