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The selection of the Tibetan national football team is finally over. From the 38 players shortlisted during the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial football tournament, 18 players have now been selected to represent Tibet.

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Tibet's government-in-exile welcomed a new thaw in tensions between India and China amid a tentative dialogue process with Beijing over the future of the Himalayan territory.

The first Tibetan reaction to the Sino-Indian summit in Beijing has been a welcoming one. Although India is seen as "shifting" its position while acknowledging the Tibetan Autonomous Region as part of China

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama adresses supporters in Choglamsar, some eight kms east of Leh. India opened its frontiers to the Tibetan spiritual leader in 1959 when China crushed a Tibet uprising. Photo by Tauseef Mustafa

The closing ceremony yesterday of the Sand Mandala created by monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery from India here at the Victoria and Albert Museum attracted more than 3000 people and helped to generate further interest in the Tibetan culture and cause.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the Military Commission of China. (AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee continued his push for broader bilateral cooperation with China, meeting military chief Jiang Zemin ahead of talks with President Hu Jintao.

India has not taken any new position by reiterating that it recognises the administrative autonomous region of Tibet(TAR) formed in 1965 as part of Peoples Republic of China which came into being in 1949, informed sources said here today.

China has discovered hydrocarbon reserves totaling 13 billion metric tons of oil and gas equivalent in Tibet, paving the way for development of oil and gas resources there, a China-based industry official said.