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The day started with the same routine we have been following since the day first at around 9 in the morning. We resumed our rally from the town named Jangaon and after cycling for about 18 kms we rested to quench our thirst

The Fourth World Social Forum opened at NESCO grounds yesterday. The delegation from Dharamsala comprising of more than fiftyTibetans were earlier joined by hundreds of others from the southern Tibetan settlements and Tibetan market in Mumbai.

Exiled Tibetans in India have said their struggle for freedom would continue but through peaceful means. A delegation of over a 100 Tibetan activists revived the demand at the ongoing World Social Forum in Mumbai

Authorities in China have banned followers of a prominent Tibetan Buddhist lama from traveling to his monastery to pay their last respects after Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's sudden death after heart surgery, RFA’s Tibetan service reports.

Members of the British House of Commons, belonging to the ruling Labour Party as well as the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, have urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits London in May-June this year.

The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists and internationally acclaimed as an advocate for global peace and harmony, will be celebrated in three Canadian cities this spring while the government of the world's most populous nation fumes.

Sonam fled Tibet for Nepal so that she could freely practise her religion and become a Buddhist nun. In Nepal she joined a convent, but then abruptly left it because she feared authorities would send her back to Tibet.

Tibetan Students' Association Madras will hold a 'Tibet Festival" on 18 and 19 of January. According to the members of TSAM, the two-day festival is aimed at informing the residents of Chennai about the rich cultural heritage of the Himalayan kingdom known to the world as 'forbidden kingdom'.

Hot wings and spicy chicken legs could soon tempt palates in Tibet as KFC wings its way to the roof of the world and the only part of China it has yet to conquer.

The issue of Tibet is a remnant of the Great Game. Only now the playing fields are a tiny town in northern India and the Great Hall of People via Hong Kong. For the past decade or so the Tibetan issue has taken unfathomable twists and turns