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Tibetan students belonging to RTYC today started a week-long hunger strike at the Sector 17 Plaza to press for their demand for immediate release of all political prisoners in Tibet, including Tulku Tenzin Delek.

The low throaty chants of monks and the bellow of ancient Tibetan horns resounded in the high ceilings of Seret and Sons Gallery on Sunday to start a ceremonial sand painting for world peace.

The North-East Zonal Tibetan Youth Congress Committee today sought India's support in securing the release of Tulku Tenzin Delek, a highly respected lama who has been sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities.

The stories they could tell: the 14-foot- long red altar cupboard that housed religious items in some faraway monastery; the intricately carved wooden trunks with Chinese-inspired motifs

The Dalai Lama is considering a request from Buddhists in Russia's Kalmykia region to visit them later this month, a spokesman for the Tibetan exile government said Saturday.

The Second Phase of the All-India Relay Hunger Strike to save Tulku Tenzin Delek from execution was organized by the North-East Zone Tibetan Youth Congress Committee under the banner of Tibetan Youth Congres Centrex in Kolkata

The El Nino phenomenon which recently emerged in the atmosphere and ocean of the Pacific tropics zone is very likely to bring an anomalous climate to Tibet next year, a local expert warned today.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, had decided not to come to Russia -- but Russia would consider his visa application if he wanted to go ahead with the trip.

The 'Wall of Hope' for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche has toured four cities in Germany and mobilised support from thousands of members of the public.

The Dutch Ambassador to India will visit Dharamshala to inaugurate a pictorial book on the birds of Kangra valley. The author 'Birds of Kangra', Jan Willem Den Besten, is a Dutch living in India working for the London based Tibet Information Centre's Dharamshala office.