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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.

Taiwan angrily denounced a proposed anti-secession law being considered in Beijing. Officials in Taipei say the new law could provide mainland China with a legal pretext for a military assault on Taiwan.

China plans to enact an anti-secession law, the government said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at promoting Beijing's campaign to pressure Taiwan into uniting with the mainland.

The RTYC, Baroda has organized a project called "Glimpse of Tibet" for two days, i.e., 15th and 16th of Dec. 2004. The project was started with a speech from the president giving the introduction of the project and the Tibetan culture.

Tenzin Yangkyi Chhoekyapa, a Tibetan girl of 16 was awarded the best sports woman of the year at one of top schools in Canberra, Australia's capital city.