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Kashmiri opposition leader Omar Abdullah(AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

Indian Kashmir's main opposition leader, sharing a rare podium with separatists, charged that New Delhi had "sold" the Tibetan and Palestinian causes and that this did not bode well for Kashmiris.

Tibetan Reception Center in Nepal

The 19 Tibetans detained near the Nepal-Tibet border on June 24, 2003 have arrived in Kathmandu on July 1 and were handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office, it is learnt.

On the 6th July, across the globe and in South Africa supporters of the Tibetan non - violent freedom struggle will be celebrating the 68th birthday of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal leader.

Four days after reserving its comments, the Congress has endorsed the position Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee adopted on Tibet and Sikkim during his China trip last week. "We have studied the India-China joint declaration in some detail.

The art and culture of Tibet is as fascinating as it is mysterious. Hoping to bring the ancient culture to light, The Boulder Public Library is hosting "The Art and Culture of Tibet" celebration.

A Nepalese news agency has said that the 19 Tibetans who were detained at the border as they were trying to enter Nepal from Tibet on June 24, 2003 have now been handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office.

The monks meditate while working on the sand art

A sand painting made painstakingly grain by grain by Tibetan monks in Manchester has been destroyed - by those who built it. The intricate art work has been put together with coloured sand on a flat platform by monks at the city's town hall, over five days.