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Tibetans all over the world will celebrate their new year on Saturday and a small town in south India is preparing to rock through the night. Today will see the end of 2030, the year of the "Water Sheep", and Saturday the start of 2031, the year of the "Wood Monkey".

You can count on an eclectic lineup and some wild collaborations at a Tibet House benefit concert. Avant-garde composer Philip Glass once played piano for alt- rock pioneers R.E.M. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio jammed with Tibetan flautist Nawang Khechog and Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso.

The Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch has decided to probe lathi charge on peaceful Tibetan peace marchers. The all-India convener of the manch, Dr Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri, said senior advocate

The Mahabodhi Temple , the most sacred Buddhist shrine, was formally dedicated to the "humanity at large" at a function held on the shrine premises shortly after 11 am on Thursday.

In the 20th century great changes took place as a result of experiments and developments in a broad range of human activities, in economics, politics, and science.

Angelique Kidjo's law career lasted exactly three months. Actually, she never quite made it to the courtroom -- she was studying at the University of .Villetaneuse in Paris when a professor asked her a question that would change her life.

On the sunny morning of 16th February, the Freedom March reached a small village called Dusara in Himachal State. Soon, the marchers grasped a brief respite by fanning out into the roadside stream for a washing spree.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday he would raise a series of human rights issues in his talks with Chinese leaders during a visit to the Asian nation later this month.

The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet's Bhuddists, makes a rare visit to Canada this spring. He will be receiving honourary university degrees from Toronto and UBC and will participate in a series of conferences and tributes.

The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Budapest January 1945 after a peerlessly heroic engagement to save tens of thousands, maybe up to 30,000 Jews from the Nazi holocaust in Hungary.